The Battle for Poland

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The Battle for Poland

• By Cadet Sanchez

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• Just as Hitler had done with Austria and
  Czechoslovakia, he demanded from the Polish
  government an area of land that was in Poland
  that had a high German population. The Polish
  government would not give in however since any
  other time a country had given Germanys demands,
  they were soon invaded. On August 30, 1939,
  Poland mobilized its armed forces and told them
  to be ready for battle.

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• The Poles were very careful to  avoid
  agitating the German Government so as to avoid
  war. Polish strategy was a deliberate ploy to
  gain sympathy if a war started from the upcoming
  battle. On August 31, German soldiers dressed as
  Polish soldiers attacked a German radio station
  on the German-Polish border. This was used to be
  the beginning of the German invasion of Poland.

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• The battle for Poland was one sided in many
  ways. The German Air Force was able to launch
  attacks that destroyed most of the Polish Air
  Force on the ground. The Army was unable to cope
  with the speed of massed armored thrusts behind
  their lines.

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• While the Polish Army attempted to contain
  the advancing Germans, the Soviet Army launched
  its promised attack into Poland. A war on two
  fronts was more than Polish Army could handle. By
  1 October 1939 Poland was forced to surrender. In
  just under a month the nation of Poland was
  defeated and divided up between Germany and the
  Soviet Union.

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• France and England stood by and watched with
  horror the power and speed of the German
  blitzkrieg. They were unable to send help to an
  isolated Poland, but they had hoped to invade
  Germany from the West. Unfortunately, for Poland,
  the war was over before England or France began
  preparations for war.

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The End