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Germany invades Poland, September 1939

WW2 begins: Polish Soldiers Attack in Danzig 1939
Gdansk, Poland: Men of the Danzig Heimwehr are covered by a tank as they attack the Post Office in Gdansk, then known as Danzig Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis
WW2 begins: Germany invades Poland 1939
Polish oil and gas storage tanks are set alight by German navy bombardment on Westerplatte, in September 1939 Photograph: AP
WW2 begins: Nazis Raising Flag Over Danzig 1939
German troops raise a battle flag over a heavily damaged area of the city on 14 September 1939 Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis
WW2 begins: Farmer In Despair poland 1939
A Polish farmer at the door of his home, head in his hands in despair, surveys the wreckage caused by a German air raid during the invasion of Poland Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
WW2 begins: Nazi soldiers in Danzig 1939
Trucks loaded with soldiers of the Reich rumble through Danzig as the Germans begin their invasion of Poland. Citizens of the city - which was predominantly German and under League of Nations control before the invasion - greet the troops with "heils" Photograph: AP
WW2 begins: Germany invades Poland 1939
The neighbouring port of Gdynia, in Poland, during the German invasion Photograph: Hugo Jaeger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
WW2 begins: Peasants in poland 1939
Polish peasants emerge from their hastily built bomb shelter as German soldiers come to register them Photograph: AP
WW2 begins: Germany invades Poland 1939
German troops roll down the road on the eastern front in Poland in September 1939. Polish refugees, some with bicycles or horse-drawn carts, troop the other way Photograph: AP
WW2 begins: Siege Of Warsaw 1939
Polish women tend to their children while a soldier looks on during the German siege of Warsaw, Poland, in September 1939. Warsaw fell to German troops on 27 September Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
WW2 begins: Injured Family Poland 1939
A father and daughter share a stretcher at a Warsaw first aid station. They were injured in a German air raid on a working-class district of Warsaw where there were no military installations Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
WW2 begins: poland 1939
A uniformed Polish official comforts a boy whose mother was killed in an air raid on Warsaw, in September 1939. The boy himself was buried under the rubble for 12 hours before being rescued Photograph: AP
WW2 begins: Captured Polish Soldiers 1939
Captured Polish soldiers on 23 September 1939 Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
WW2 begins: Germans prepare for victory parade after invasion of poland 1939
Germans prepare for a victory parade in Warsaw Photograph: Hugo Jaeger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
WW2 begins: Hitler viewing the victory parade in Warsaw 1939
Hitler views the victory parade in Warsaw Photograph: Hugo Jaeger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
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