Hitler Germany Invasion of Poland 1939
Hitler's Germany invades Poland... September 1, 1939
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland
| Invasion of Poland | |||||||||
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| Part of The European Theatre of World War II | |||||||||
 The map shows the beginning of World War II in September 1939 in a European context. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Germany Slovakia (see details) |  Poland | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Fedor von Bock (Army Group North) | Edward Rydz-Śmigły (Marshal of Poland) Wacław Stachiewicz(Chief of the General Staff) Tadeusz Kutrzeba(Army Poznań) Juliusz Rómmel(Łódź Army, Warszawa Army) | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Germany: 60 divisions, 6 brigades, 9,000 guns,[1] 2,750 tanks, 2,315 aircraft[2] Slovakia: 3 divisions
Joined on 17 September:
Soviet Union: 33+ divisions, 11+ brigades, 4,959 guns, 4,736 tanks, 3,300 aircraft | Poland: 39 divisions (some of them were never fully mobilized and concentrated),[4] 16 brigades,[4] 4,300 guns,[4] 880 tanks, 400 aircraft[1] Total: 950,000[Note 1] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Germany:[Note 2] 16,343 killed, 3,500 missing,[11] 30,300 wounded Slovakia: 37 killed, 11 missing, 114 wounded[12]
Soviet Union:[Note 3]
1,475 killed or missing, 2,383 wounded[3] or: 5,327 killed, missing and wounded[13]
Total casualties: 59,000
| Poland:[Note 4] 66,000 dead, 133,700 wounded, 199,700 total casualties, 694,000 captured 904,0 | ||||||||
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