EVENT INFORMATION

1
Sèptèmber
1939

Germany invades Poland, opening the European war

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📅 1 Sèptèmber 1939 📍 Alemania, Polonia

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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Personanan den e suseso aki

Polish civilians

Polish Jews

Adolf Hitler

Władysław Raczkiewicz

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Nazi Germany

Polish state

Wehrmacht

Einsatzgruppen