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14,000+. 14,000. The siege of Dunkirk in World War II (also known as the Second Battle of Dunkirk) began in September 1944, when Allied units of the Second Canadian Division surrounded the fortified city and port of Dunkirk. The siege lasted until after the official end of the war in Europe. German units within the fortress withstood probing ...
Occupation of Poland (disambiguation) Occupation of Poland may refer to: Partitions of Poland (1795-1914) The German Government General of Warsaw and the Austrian Military Government of Lublin during World War I. Occupation of Poland (1939–1945) during World War II. Soviet influence over Poland after World War II (1945-1989) This ...
The subject of rape during the Soviet occupation of Poland at the end of World War II in Europe was absent from the postwar historiography until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, although the documents of the era show that the problem was serious both during and after the advance of Soviet forces against Nazi Germany in 1944–1945. [1]
Sonderaktion Krakau was a German operation against professors and academics of the Jagiellonian University and other universities in German-occupied Kraków, Poland, at the beginning of World War II. [1] It was carried out as part of the much broader action plan, the Intelligenzaktion, to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, especially in ...
Ostbahn ( German: for Eastern Railway) in the General Government, were the Nazi German railways in occupied Poland during World War II, subordinated to the General Directorate of Eastern Railways ( German: Generaldirektion der Ostbahn, Gedob) in occupied Kraków; a branch of the Deutsche Reichsbahn National Railway of Germany in the newly ...
v. t. e. The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia. Following the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938 and the Munich Agreement in ...
Kingdom of Poland (966–1569) Around the year 1000, the population of the Duchy of Poland is estimated at 1,000,000 [1] to 1,250,000. [2] Around 1370 Poland had 2 million inhabitants with a population density of 8.6 per square kilometer. [3] Poland was less affected by the Black Death than Western Europe.