September 1 1939: Germany invades Poland

ON September 1 1939 Germany invaded Poland and set the ball rolling for World War 2. Hundreds of thousands of German troops invaded from Slovakia, East Prussia and Pomerania. We know of the horrors that followed. Could the Poles have imagined a worse fate?

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