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	History of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poland's location in the very center of Europe became especially significant in a period when both Prussia/Germany and Russia were intensely involved in European rivalries and alliances and modern nation states took form over the entire continent.
		Poland regained its independence in 1918, but the Second Polish Republic was destroyed by in the Polish September Campaign, marking the begining of the Second World War.
		The Polish state was born in 966 with the baptism of Mieszko I, duke of the Slavic tribe of Polans and founder of the Piast dynasty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Poland (2639 words)

	History of Poland (1939-1945) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under the terms of the Nazi-Soviet pact, adjusted by agreement on 28 September 1939, the Soviet Union, annexed all Polish territory east of the line of the rivers Pisa, Narew, Bug and San, except for the area around Wilno (Vilnius), which was given to Lithuania, and the Suwałki region, which was annexed by Germany.
		Poland was a deeply Catholic country and the presence of this large non-Christian minority had always been a source of tension, and periodically of violence between Poles and Jews.
		In 1945 Poland's borders were redrawn, following the decision taken at the Teheran Conference of 1943 at the insistence of the Soviet Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Poland_(1939-1945) (4804 words)

	Poland -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John's reign came to be known in Polish history as the “Deluge.” During his rule discontent in Ukraine flared in the rebellion of the Cossacks under Bohdan Chmielnicki.
		In 1697 the elector of Saxony was chosen king of Poland as Augustus II by a minority faction supported by Czar Peter I. Augustus allied himself with Russia and Denmark against Charles XII of Sweden.
		The Sovietization of Poland was accelerated; in 1949, Soviet Marshall Konstantin Rokossovsky was made minister of defense and commander in chief of the Polish army.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/poland_history.asp (4078 words)

	Poland History
		It is said that "he found Poland built of wood and left her built of stone." His ambitious projects ringed the country with fortifications.
		Jogaila, known as Jagiello, was crowned as King of Poland in February of 1386 at an assembly of Polish barons and nobility and adopted the name of Wladyslaw II.
		Subsequently, the nobility elected the new king of Poland; it was to be French prince Henri de Valois.
	www.snookems.com /poland/phistory.htm (8510 words)

	POLAND ONLINE - HISTORY AND CULTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1921 the Soviets and the Poles signed a peace treaty, which gave Poland substantial territories in the east that were mainly populated by Ukrainians and Belorussians.
		The internal political situation in Poland was not very stable, and in 1926 Pilsudski took control as president of the republic and head of the government.
		The Polish position was made impossible by the invasion of eastern Poland on Sept. 17, 1939, by Soviet forces in accordance with a secret agreement made between the Soviets and Nazi Germany.
	www.polandonline.com /history.html (2041 words)

	History of Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The people of Poland took pride in their long history, filled with the struggle to get, keep, and regain freedom—the main value for Poles.
		Traditional histories of Poland begin with the Polanian tribe ruled by Duke Mieszko I, who became duke of the Polanian tribes around 962 and adopted Christianity in 966 following his marriage to the Czech princess Dubrawka.
		Some military equipment found in Poland and dated to around Mieszko's time has been claimed to be of Scandinavian appearance, though archaeologists today are generally skeptical, and there is no trace of characteristically Scandinavian architecture among the remains of the Polanian structures, not even in the leaders' quarters.
	www.knowallabout.com /h/hi/history_of_poland.html (1964 words)

	The Campaign in Poland, September 1 - October 1, 1939
		The world in August 1939 was a world that held its breath.
		Poland’s army in 1939 was totally unprepared for the new warfare it found itself in.
		As Germany was near collapse in 1945, most of the forced laborers in Germany were French.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/poland.htm (700 words)

	Reichsgau Wartheland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen) was the name given by Nazis to the territory of Greater Poland which was occupied, annexed and directly incorporated into the German Reich after defeating the Polish army in 1939 (as opposed to the General Government, GG).
		During the first week of the German invasion of Poland, there is little agreement as to the number and manner of minority Germans killed during Bromberg Bloody Sunday and in the days that followed throughout western Poland as the German Blitzkrieg swept through.
		On September 1, 1939, it had 390,000 Jews; most perished or suffered terrible abuse during the war.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Warthegau (774 words)

	K. World War II, 1939-1945. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		POLAND WAS INVADED by German forces estimated at 1 million men.
		The total German gains were estimated at 72,866 square miles, with a population of 22,140,000.
		The Russians occupied 77,620 square miles of eastern Poland, with a population of 13,199,000.
	www.bartleby.com /67/2582.html (283 words)

	POLISH HOME ARMY (AK) - HISTORY
		The position of Chief Government Delegate was established to be In charge of political and administrative affairs in Poland, who was to deal with political matters in consultation with the party representatives in the Political Coordinating Committee.
		In eastern Poland the strong Soviet political-police controlled occupation created difficulties that were almost impossible to overcome.
		On March 26, 1945, the Chief Delegate Jan Stanisław Jankowski, chairman of the Council of National Unity Kazimierz Puzak and Gen. Okulicki were invited to a meeting with Soviet authorities and were arrested.
	www.biega.com /museumAK/hak-e.html (3258 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Poland - 1919-1939
		Poland and the USSR signed the PEACE OF RIGA (1921) according to which western Belarus and Ukraine were Polish territory.
		The Upper Silesians voted 65 % for Germany, 35 % for Poland, and the region was partitioned.
		Poland's economy improved after 1926, but was hit by the economic crisis of 1929.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/eceurope/pol1939.html (1072 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Poland - 1939-1945
		On September 1st 1939, German troops began with the invasion of Poland; the first shots were fired by a German gunboat lying in the harbour of the Free City of Danzig (WESTERPLATTE), targetting the Polish Post Office in that city.
		Large tracts of western and northern Poland were directly annexed to Germany, an area of approcimately 100,000 square km with a population of c.
		The district of Bialystok (hitherto Soviet-occupied Poland) was annexed to Germany (Gau Ostpreussen); the District of Lemberg (Lwow, eastern Galicia) to the Generalgouvernement.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/eceurope/poland193945.html (1999 words)

	Jewish History in Poland, 1939-1945
		It certainly seems to be true, however, in the opinion of Poles living in the eastern provinces of pre-war Poland, that the fall of Poland and the tragedies which accompanied the occupation were less keenly felt by the Jewish population than they were by their Polish neighbors.
		Despite the difficulties of communication, news from the eastern territories did reach central Poland, and it was reported in the Polish and the Jewish underground press, the latter being distributed in the Warsaw ghetto.
		It was well known throughout Poland that conditions in the poverty-stricken, disease-ridden ghettos gradually killed the physically weak and the poor, and these factors were discussed in the reports that were sent out to the Polish Government exiled in London and by the Polish underground press, which had a wide circulation.
	members.core.com /~mikerose/waryears.htm (5226 words)

	Polish History: chapter/book-length sites
		An illustrated history of Poland in 21 chapters which was published in 1917.
		A history of Poland illustrated with historical paintings: five webpages and 26 sections.
		A history of Poland, primarily in the realm of diplomatic and military actions, in seven sections.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /web/history/overview/link.shtml (552 words)

	The Second World War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On September 1st., 1939, 1.8 million German troops invaded Poland on three fronts; East Prussia in the north, Germany in the west and Slovakia in the south.
		Under the German-Soviet pact Poland was divided; the Soviets took, and absorbed into the Soviet Union, the eastern half (Byelorussia and the West Ukraine), the Germans incorporated Pomerania, Posnania and Silesia into the Reich whilst the rest was designated as the General-Gouvernement (a colony ruled from Krakow by Hitler's friend, Hans Frank).
		When the Russians crossed into Poland the Home Army cooperated in the fight against the Germans and contributed greatly to the victories at Lwow, Wilno and Lublin only to find themselves surrounded and disarmed by their "comrades-in-arms" and deported to labour camps in Siberia.
	www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk /www/WW2.html (1914 words)

	The Nazi Occupation of Poland
		Poland was immediately divided between the Soviets and Nazi Germany.
		His extraordinary diary was published in Poland in 1959 shortly before his death and subsequently translated into English.
		"The Nazi Occupation of Poland," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (1997).
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /poland.htm (1520 words)

	Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum
		Roosevelt did not know it at the time, but his initiative would mark the beginning of one of the most extraordinary relationships in political history, a relationship marked by an intimate correspondence unparalleled among national leaders, a relationship which, in due course, would lead to the establishment of a military alliance unique among sovereign states.
		FDR wrote to Churchill because he was looking for information about the War, and because he wished to establish contact with a British leader who appeared to be a likely candidate for Prime Minister, in the event that the current Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, should resign or be forced from office.
		Upon learning of his death, on April 12, 1945, Churchill sent an immediate message to the President's wife, Eleanor, in which he wrote: "I have lost a dear and cherished friendship which was forged in the fire of war.
	www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /anglo.html (745 words)

	Articles - Polish government in exile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On September 17, 1939, the President of the Polish Republic, Ignacy Mościcki, who was then in the small town of Kosów near the southern Polish border, signed an act appointing Władysław Raczkiewicz, the Speaker of the Senate, as his successor.
		Stalin insisted that the territories annexed by the Soviets in 1939, which had majority Ukrainian and Belarusian populations, should remain in Soviet hands, and that Poland should be compensated with lands to be annexed from Germany.
		When Communist rule came to an end in Poland in 1989, there was still a president and a cabinet of eight meeting every two weeks in London, commanding the loyalty of many of about 150,000 Polish veterans and their descendants living in Britain, including 35,000 in London alone.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Polish_government-in-exile (1431 words)

	The World at War, history of WW 1939-1945
		Every such work as The World at War, history of WW 1939-1945 is an attempt to walk the tightrope between the fullest possible and the most accessible description of the period.
		From 1939 to 1945, Germany's military machine struck out and conquered most of Western Europe, swept into deserts of North Africa and drove deep into the hinterlands of Russia.
		The 1939-1945 war is pure history, and a topic we should all understand and be able to discuss.
	www.euronet.nl /users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm (2153 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The War, 1939-1945: A Documentary History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the summer of 1939 Hitler's Germany, having annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia with the acquiescence of the rest of the world, turned eastward towards Poland.
		Where the usual general history concentrates on the innovations of blitzkreig, this book gives us the diary of Rommel - and another journal by a 12-year-old belgian boy, waiting in an air raid shelter for his mother to come back and trying to comfort his steadily more anxious younger brother.
		Where the usual general history concentrates on the innovations of blitzkreig, this book gives us the matter-of-fact diary of Rommel - and another journal by a 12-year-old belgian boy, waiting in an air raid shelter for his mother to come back and trying to comfort his steadily more anxious younger brother.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306807637?v=glance (1431 words)

	Poland & World War II: 1939-1945
		WORLD WAR II POLAND and WORLD WAR II This exhibit is copyrighted by R. Skulski.
		If you have any questions you may contact me by email at rskulski@shaw.ca.
		Poland and WWII Home 1939 1940-1942 1943-1944 1945 Appendices
	members.shaw.ca /rskulski/main.html (56 words)

	Banach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lvov was, at the time Banach studied there, under Austrian control as it had been from the partition of Poland in 1772.
		In Banach's youth Poland, in some sense, did not exist and Russia controlled much of the country.
		In 1939, just before the start of World War II, Banach was elected as President of the
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Banach.html (2419 words)

	German Invasion of Poland - September 1939
		An article about the various international dyplomatic and militrary moves and developments that took place in the Fall of 1939 and were occasioned by the German and then Soviet invasions of Poland.
		A History of World War II, 1939-1945 does not deal with the September '39 campaign as such.
		The first half is devoted to the events of 1939 in Poland, the rest to the contributions of the Polish Armed forces to the Allied war effort in the period 1940-45
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /web/history/WWII/1939/link.shtml (324 words)

	The World at War - Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland [1 on map].
		In June 1941 Hitler broke his 1939 alliance with Stalin by invading Russia [6].
		Germany itself, invaded by Britain, USA and Russia, surrendered in May 1945.
	thc.worldarcstudio.com /classroom_20040211_JB/gcse/ww2_glos.htm (423 words)

	The History Place - World War Two in Europe Timeline
		The History Place - World War Two in Europe Timeline
		1939 - 1940 - 1941 - 1942 - 1943 - 1944 - 1945
		Terms of use: Private home/school non-commercial, non-Internet re-usage only is allowed of any text, graphics, photos, audio clips, other electronic files or materials from The History Place.
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm (1792 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003070077 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This challenging new work uses archival research to examine Poland's government in exile during the Second World War as it sought both to fight against the advances of Germany and the Soviet Union, and to prepare for the moment when it would once more be possible to establish a national Polish government.
		The author suggests that the Poles were as much at war with themselves throughout the war and in the years immediately following the end of hostilities as they were with the German and Soviet forces.
		Civil War in Poland, 1942-1948 contributes to the debate on the fate of Poland in this complex period, the origins of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, and the process of transformation in Europe during and since the Second World War.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol053/2003070077.html (185 words)

	Jewish World Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		born in Warsaw, Poland, and was a ‘Victim of the Holocaust’.
		A virtual tour of Jewish life in Poland.
		LNT Poland - Polish Jews in Present Day Poland
	www.jewishworldcenter.com /POLAND.html (263 words)

	1939
		Finland, the Baltic states and eastern Poland to the USSR.
		October 11 - Manhattan Project: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented with a letter signed by Albert Einstein urging the United States to rapidly develop the atomic bomb.
		August 26 - The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn.
	www.fact-library.com /1939.html (1159 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Britain and Poland 1939-1943 : The Betrayed Ally (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		by Anita J. Prazmowska "When the German army and air force attacked in the early hours of 1 September 1939 it was difficult to predict how long the Poles..." (more)
		When the German army and air force attacked in the early hours of 1 September 1939 it was difficult to predict how long the Poles would be able to hold out.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521483859?v=glance (507 words)

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