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The German invasion plan called for the start of hostilities before the declaration of war and for the Blitzkrieg doctrine of lightning war to be pursued. German units were to invade Poland from three directions: from the German mainland through the western Polish border; from the north, from the exclave of East Prussia
The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945.
The Oder–Neisse line Poland's old and new borders, 1945. At the end of World War II, Poland underwent major changes to the location of its international border. In 1945, after the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Oder–Neisse line became its western border, [1] resulting in gaining the Recovered Territories from Germany.
The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II which primarily involved combat between the nations and allies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Combat in the Eastern Front began with the two powers remaining peaceful towards each other, with the annexation of countries such as Albania and portions of Poland by Germany and its allies, and the annexation of Finland and the rest of Poland by ...
The Invasion of Poland, [e] also known as the September Campaign, [f] Polish Campaign, [g] and Polish Defensive War of 1939 [h] [13] (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. [14]
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
Slovak invasion of Poland (Slovakian invasion and annexation of Polish disputed territories) Canaris Memorandum of September 12, 1939 (German outlines to support the Ukrainian national uprising in Western Ukraine, before Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland, to create a pro-Nazi Ukraine puppet state against southern USSR's sphere of influence).
Invasion of Poland [66] Part of the European theatre of World War II. Location: Second Polish Republic, eastern Germany, Free City of Danzig (modern-day Gdańsk) Second Polish Republic Nazi Germany. Slovakia Soviet Union. German–Soviet–Slovak victory [67] Polish territory divided among Germany, Lithuania, Soviet Union and Slovakia