Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 1 September 1939 Reichstag speech is a speech made by Adolf Hitler at an Extraordinary Session of the German Reichstag on the day of the German invasion of Poland. The speech served as public declaration of war against Poland and thus of the commencement of World War II (Germany did not submit a formal declaration of war to Poland).
The Soviet invasion of eastern Poland followed on September 17. [3] On August 29, 1939, Adolf Hitler told British Ambassador Nevile Henderson that he was ready to resume negotiations with Poland. For this purpose, a Polish plenipotentiary was required to come to Berlin within 24 hours. [4] In principle, Poland and Great Britain were ready to ...
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]
Hitler cited the border incidents in a speech in the Reichstag on the same day, with three of them called very serious, as justification for his invasion of Poland. [14] Hitler had told his generals on 22 August, "I will provide a propagandistic casus belli. Its credibility doesn't matter. The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth".
6 October 1939 Reichstag speech. Hitler's 6 October 1939 Reichstag speech was a speech given by Adolf Hitler shortly after the Invasion of Poland. It featured Hitler's penultimate offer of peace to the Western Allies.
In September 1939, Poland was invaded and occupied by two powers: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, acting in accordance with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. [7] Germany acquired 48.4% of the former Polish territory. [8] Under the terms of two decrees by Hitler, with Stalin 's agreement (8 and 12 October 1939), large areas of western Poland ...
Fall Weiss (1939) German invasion plan for Poland. Fall Weiss ("Case White", "Plan White"; German spelling Fall Weiß) was the German strategic plan for the invasion of Poland. The German military High Command finalized its operational orders on 15 June 1939 and the invasion commenced on 1 September, precipitating World War II.
9–19 September: Battle of the Bzura. 9–20 September: Battle of Kampinos Forest. 10–19 September: Battle of Kępa Oksywska. 10–11 September: Battle of Jarosław. 11–12 September: Battle of Kałuszyn. 11–14 September: Battle of Przemyśl. 12 September: Szczucin massacre. 12–22 September: Battle of Lwów. 13–29 September: Battle of ...