| | Polish September Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Polish forces were stretched thin on the very long border and, lacking compact defence lines and good defence positions along unadvantegeous terrain, mechanized German forces often were able to encircle them. |
 | | Soviet diplomacy - and later, Soviet propaganda - claimed that they were "protecting the Ukrainian and Belarusian minorities inhabiting Poland in view of Polish imminent collapse." However, in reality, the Soviets were acting in co-operation with the Nazis, [4] [5], carving Europe into Nazi and Soviet spheres of influence as specified in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. |
 | | The Polish air force was destroyed on the ground in the first days of the war: The Polish Air Force, though numerically inferior, was not destroyed on the ground because combat units had been moved from air bases to small camouflaged airfields shortly before the war. |
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