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This 3 page paper discusses the Polish experience during the Second World War, and during the post-war period. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_HVWW2Pol.rtf
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Soviet Union collapsed in 1989. This paper briefly recounts the Polish experience of the war and its aftermath. The War Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, sending 1.8 million
troops into the country on three fronts: they came from "East Prussia in the north, Germany in the west and Slovakia in the south" (The Second World War). The odds
against the Poles were overwhelming: they had 180 tanks to the Germans 2600 and 240 aircraft against the Luftwaffes more than 2000 (The Second World War). The "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war)
that Germany unleashed across Europe in 1939 was something new in human history (The Second World War). This fast-moving invasion force, "coupled with their bombing of defenceless [sic] towns and
refugees ... at first, caught the Poles off-guard" (The Second World War). Warsaw was surrounded by September 14, but by this point the Poles had managed to mount a defense,
"holding off the Germans at Kutno and regrouping behind the Wisla (Vistula) and Bzura rivers" (The Second World War). Britain and France both declared war on Germany on September 3,
but neither sent any help to Poland, although "it had been agreed that the Poles should fight a defensive campaign for only 2 weeks during which time the Allies could
get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat with little or no opposition, but that is untrue:
despite the fact that the Polish forces were not modernized, and were badly outnumbered; and despite the fact that there was no help coming from either Britain or France, Poland
fought back and made certain that the German campaign "was no walk-over" (The Second World War). The Germans had underrated both the Polish tanks and their gunners; the Polish anti-tank
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