Curated category
1939 in Poland
- Anglo-Polish allianceIn early 1939, British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax received a proposal from Polish Ambassador to the United Kingdom Raczyński.
- Operation HimmlerHeinrich Himmler conceived a strategy to manufacture evidence of Polish aggression before the German invasion. Reinhard Heydrich supervised the project while…
- Invasion of PolandAt 4:45 a.m. on the 1st of September 1939, the pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish military transit depot at Westerplatte…
- Slovak invasion of PolandOn the 14th of March 1939, the Slovak State emerged as a client state of Nazi Germany. This new entity initiated the breakup of Czechoslovakia that had…
- Battle of WesterplatteIn 1925, the League of Nations granted Poland the right to install a garrisoned ammunition depot near Danzig. An area on the Westerplatte peninsula was…