EVENT INFORMATION

1
September
1939

Germany invades Poland, opening the European war

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📅 1 September 1939 📍 Duitsland, Polen

Nazi Germany invaded Poland on 1 September, claiming fabricated border incidents as pretext. The invasion combined conventional warfare with terror against civilians and plans for racial conquest. Polish Jews and other civilians were targeted from the first weeks; the destruction that followed cannot be reduced to a border dispute or a war between states alone.

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Polish civilians

Polish Jews

Adolf Hitler

Władysław Raczkiewicz

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Nazi Germany

Polish state

Wehrmacht

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