| Invasion of Poland (1939) | |||||||
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| Part of World War II | |||||||
 German troops dismantle a Polish border checkpoint, September 1, 1939, as World War II begins. | |||||||
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| Combatants | |||||||
 Poland
|  Germany,  Soviet Union, Slovakia
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| Commanders | |||||||
| Edward Rydz-Śmigły
| Fedor von Bock (Army Group North), Gerd von Rundstedt (Army Group South), Mikhail Kovalov (Belorussian Front), Semyon Timoshenko (Ukrainian Front), Ferdinand Čatloš (Field Army Bernolak) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 39 divisions, 16 brigades, 4,300 guns, 880 tanks, 400 aircraft Total: 950,000[1] | Germany: 56 divisions, 4 brigades, 10,000 guns, 2,700 tanks, 1,300 aircraft Soviet Union: 33+ divisions, 11+ brigades Slovakia: 3 divisions Total: 1,800,000 Germans, 800,000+ Soviets, 50,000 Slovaks Grand total: 2,650,000+[1] | ||||||
| Casualties | |||||||
| 66,000 dead,[2] 133,700 wounded, 694,000 captured | Germany: 16,343 dead,[2] 27,280 wounded, 320 missing Soviet Union: 737 dead or missing, 1,125 wounded | ||||||
| Invasion of Poland |
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| Westerplatte – Danzig – The Border - Krojanty – Lasy Królewskie – Mokra – Gdańsk Bay – Pszczyna – Mława – Tuchola Forest – Jordanów – Borowa Góra – Mikołów – Węgierska Górka – Tomaszów Mazowiecki – Wizna – Łódź – Przemyśl – Piotrków – Różan – Radom – Łomża – Wola Cyrusowa – Warsaw – Gdynia – Hel – Bzura – Jarosław – Kałuszyn – Węgrów – Wilno – Lwów – Modlin – Kobryń – Brześć – Kępa Oksywska – Tomaszów Lubelski – Wólka Węglowa – Kampinos Forest – Janów, Wereszyca, and Hołosko – Krasnystaw – Grodno – Cześniki – Krasnobród – Władypol – Szack – Wytyczno – Parczew – Kock |
World War II
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This battle was the first of many invasions by the German army. Hitler, in preparation for the attack, had signed a pact between the Soviet Union which stated that the Soviet Union would have control of East Poland, and Germany would have control of West Poland.
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