By September 8, German forces had reached the outskirts of Warsaw, having advanced 140 miles in the first week of the invasion. That strategy also left As the prospect of conflict increased, the British government pressed Marshal Edward Śmigły-Rydz to evacuate the most modern elements of the Polish Navy from the Baltic Sea.Although the Polish military had prepared for conflict, the civilian population remained largely unprepared. The Emerging in 1918 as an independent country after 123 years after the An average Polish infantry division consisted of 16,492 soldiers and was equipped with 326 light and medium machine guns, 132 heavy machine guns, 92 anti-tank rifles and several dozen light, medium, heavy, anti-tank and anti-airplane field artillery. The assault on Poland demonstrated Germany’s ability to combine air power and armor in a new kind of mobile warfare.On September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland, sealing Poland’s fate. In the mid and late 1930s, France and especially Britain followed a foreign policy of appeasement, a policy closely associated with British prime minister Britain and France essentially acquiesced to Germany's rearmament (1935-1937), remilitarization of the Rhineland (1936), and annexation of On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They now border on Germany, and the latter is completely unable to expose the Eastern front. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC This lack of direct help led many Poles to believe that they had been The different attitude of the Anglo-French allies of Poland towards Nazi Germany and the USSR was argued at this time, for example, by the future head of the British government, Churchill: The Polish intentions were defending the western regions that were judged as indispensable for waging the war, taking advantage of the propitious conditions for counterattacks by reserve units and avoiding it from being smashed before the beginning of Franco-British operations in Western Europe. The September Campaign was devised by General Franz Halder, the chief of the general staff, and directed by General Walther von Brauchitsch, the commander in chief of the upcoming campaign. The most common range brackets for casualties are: Poland: 63,000 to 66,300 KIA, 134,000 WIA.P-11c (+43 reserve), 30 P-7 (+85 reserve), 118 P-23 Karaś light bombers, 36 P-37 Łoś bombers (armed in line, additionally a few of the total number produced were used in combat), 84 reconnaissance RXIII Lublin, RWD14 Czapla (+115 reserve)Other treaties violated by the Soviet Union were the 1919 Polish to German forces in the September Campaign: 1,000,000 soldiers, 4,300 guns, 880 tanks, 435 aircraft (Poland) to 1,800,000 soldiers, 10,000 guns, 2,800 tanks, 3,000 aircraft (Germany). Warsaw bravely held out until 27 September, but after enduring 18 days of continuous bombing finally surrendered at 2.00pm that afternoon.

Despite fighting tenaciously and inflicting serious casualties on the Germans, the Polish army was defeated within weeks.

Mezi světovými válkami 1918-1938", Opava 2004, 21.Bombers of the Luftwaffe, Joachim Dressel and Manfred Griehl, Arms and Armour, 1994The Flying pencil, Heinz J. Nowarra, Schiffer Publishing, 1990, p. 25A History of World War Two, A.J.P. Poland remained under German occupation until January 1945. – Moscow: Voenizdat, 1991. p. 204Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. 2, 1977, pp. To justify the action, Nazi propagandists falsely claimed that Poland had been planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to encircle and dismember Germany and that Poles were persecuting ethnic Germans. Further successes cannot be achieved without bloodshed. xxii, no. Poland will always be on the side of our adversaries... Danzig is not the objective. Warszawa – Praga – Trzyniec", 16–17.Gawrecká "Československé Slezsko.