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unusual facts about German invasion of Poland



Henryk Sławik

At the outbreak of the German invasion of Poland in 1939 Sławik joined the Polish mobilised police battalion attached to the Kraków Army.

Józef Adamowicz

Following the German invasion of Poland, Aleksandrowicz fought in the Polish Army's 72nd Infantry Regiment and subsequently was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Kraków Ghetto.

Louis P. Lochner

When World War II broke out with the German invasion of Poland in 1939 Lochner became the first foreign journalist to follow the German Army into battle.

Władysław Marian Jakowicki

After the German and Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Vilnius was occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union.


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Jurgis Šaulys

In the wake of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he moved to Lugano in Switzerland with his wife, the Italian opera singer Mafalda Salvatini, acting as the Lithuanian ambassador in Berne until the legation was closed in 1946.