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  2. Partitions of Poland - Wikipedia

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    The partition of Poland according to the German–Soviet Pact; division of Polish territories in the years 1939–1941. The term "Fourth Partition of Poland" may refer to any subsequent division of Polish lands, including: after the Napoleonic era, the 1815 division of the Duchy of Warsaw at the Congress of Vienna;

  3. Occupation of Poland (1939–1945) - Wikipedia

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    By this arrangement, often described as a fourth partition of Poland, [132] the Soviet Union secured almost all Polish territory east of the line of the rivers Pisa, Narew, Western Bug and San. This amounted to about 200,000 square kilometres of land, inhabited by 13.5 million Polish citizens.

  4. Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    The annexation was part of the "fourth partition of Poland" by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, outlined months before the invasion, in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. [ 2 ] Some smaller territories were incorporated directly into the existing Gaue East Prussia and Silesia , while the bulk of the land was used to create new Reichsgaue Danzig ...

  5. Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946) - Wikipedia

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    The demarcation line across the center of Poland was shifted to the east, giving Germany more Polish territory. [12] By this new and final arrangement – often described as a fourth partition of Poland, [2] the Soviet Union secured the lands east of the rivers Pisa, Narew, Bug and San. The area amounted to about 200,000 square kilometres ...

  6. Soviet invasion of Poland - Wikipedia

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    By this arrangement, often described as a fourth partition of Poland, [1] the Soviet Union secured almost all Polish territory east of the line of the rivers Pisa, Narew, Western Bug and San. This amounted to about 200,000 km 2 (77,000 sq mi) territory, inhabited by 13.5 million Polish citizens. [ 92 ]

  7. Subdivisions of Polish territories during World War II

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    Under the terms of two decrees by Hitler (8 October and 12 October 1939), large areas of western Poland were annexed to Germany. These included all the territories taken by Prussia in Partitions of Poland which Germany subsequently lost under the 1918 Treaty of Versailles, including the Polish Corridor, Wielkopolska, as well as territories divided after plebiscites such as Upper Silesia, as ...

  8. Category:Partitions of Poland - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Partitions of Poland" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. ... Fourth Partition of Poland; 0–9. 19th-century Catholic ...

  9. Belastok Region - Wikipedia

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    The Nazi–Soviet Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact led to the fourth partition of Poland during 1939–1941 (marked in red). In the upper centre, District Bialystok following Operation Barbarossa In the aftermath of the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, this western portion of then-Belarus, which until 1939 belonged to the Polish state ...