What was the process of the Polish campaign?

The Polish campaign was a quick blitzkrieg under the iron heel of German fascists, which led to the rapid demise of Poland. So what was the progress of the Polish campaign? The following is the information I have compiled for you about the Polish campaign. I hope you like it!

The course of the Polish campaign

At 4: 45 am on September 1, 1939, with an order, thousands of bombers flew to Poland, and thousands of cannons on the border of Bode immediately opened fire. The double blow of air and side guns made Poland instantly fall into hell. After the bombing lasted for an hour, German ground armored forces attacked Poland from the north, west and southwest. Poland was caught off guard, and the only air power-more than 500 planes-was destroyed by German artillery fire before taking off. With the opening of armored tanks, the Germans quickly broke through the Polish defense line and advanced at a speed of 50-60 kilometers per day. Faced with the heavily armed equipment of the Germans, the Polish army could only counterattack the tanks with knives and guns. Even heroic and inferior equipment made the Polish army fall instantly.

On September 3rd, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Sending troops separately, but "announcing without fighting", has appeared a great spectacle in military history. At the same time, Lundstedt's southern army marched from west to south to the middle reaches of the Vistula River. The army group of the North Road led by Admiral Bok went straight into the "Polish Corridor". Kucelle led the third army to outflank Warsaw, cutting off the rear road of the Polish army. By the 4th, Polish troops were surrounded in the forest areas north of Shiviz and west of Groundz. On September 6, Edward, commander-in-chief of the Polish army? Rez-Smiri ordered the Polish army to retreat to the east of the Vistula River, forming a defense from the Vistula River to the Sang River. However, this did not help. The Polish government also left Warsaw for lublin on the same day. By the 7th, Yugoslav troops occupied Lodz, an important industrial town in Poland, and also captured Krakow, the second largest city in Poland. It cut off the retreat of Poznan legion and won the "Polish Corridor" that the Germans dreamed of. A day later, the northern army began to attack Warsaw from the north and northwest. By 17, the northern army and the southern army swept away the resistant Polish army on the March, and then joined forces with Warsaw to surround the Polish capital. The Polish government and army high command have fled to Romania on 16.

Just as Warsaw was in danger, the Soviet Union sent troops to eastern Poland to "protect the interests of Belarusian minorities in Ukraine" on the grounds that "the Polish government fled and the Soviet-Polish treaty was invalid". Litov, together, occupied two regions of Poland. Poland, except Warsaw, fell under the iron heel of the Soviet Union.

According to the requirements of the German high command, on September 25th, the Germans began to bomb Warsaw and launched a frontal attack. By the 26th, the German Air Force bombed Warsaw. Under pressure, the commander of the Warsaw Garrison finally surrendered to General Blaskovic, commander of the Eighth German Army Corps. 29, Maudlin fortress surrendered. On June 2, 2000, with the surrender of the last resistance city, Dinia, the whole Poland fell.

Brief introduction of polish campaign

1939 In September, Germany, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia pointed their swords at Poland on the land of Eastern Europe, which opened the largest war in human history. The Battle of Poland became the beginning of World War II. So what is the brief introduction of the Polish campaign?

The "Battle of Poland" is a "blitzkrieg" under the German mechanized attack. The purpose is to occupy the Danzig region and the Polish corridor, control the seaport and restore Germany's former hegemony. As early as March 1939, Germany occupied all the territory of Czechoslovakia. Therefore, on the western front, the Germans cooperated with the Czechoslovak army to raid Poland with mechanized legions and powerful air forces and destroy the Polish defense line. Although the Bo army fought to the death, its tactics were outdated, its equipment was outdated, and its strength was too great to fight back. On the eastern front, the Soviet Union attacked the eastern part of the Polish army on September 17 and extended its national defense line to Poland according to the secret agreement signed with Germany on the contents of the German-Soviet Non-aggression Treaty. The wolf went into the front door and the tiger jumped into the back door. Bo army was caught between Scylla and Charybdis and suffered heavy losses. However, after declaring war on the Germans, the British and French allied forces in Poland rarely "sit still" and watched Poland fall for its own interests.

On September 27th, the Polish army officially stopped resisting. The next day, the Warsaw garrison commander formally signed the surrender letter to the German army. Poland was formally divided between Germany and the Soviet Union. This is a brief introduction to the Polish campaign.

The Battle of Poland was a contest between traditional military and modern military, which marked the transformation of human war to a more cruel direction. The Battle of Poland also kicked off the Second World War. The contest between the fascist Axis and the anti-fascist alliance began nearly six years, which plunged people all over the world into a hot war.

The strength of both sides in the Polish campaign

The Polish campaign was launched by the Germans in the form of "blitzkrieg", and Poland surrendered in just one month. So how many troops did both sides invest in Poland?

On the eve of the war, the Germans assembled two army groups on the Polish border. Pomerania and East Prussia have assembled the "Northern" Army Group, which has three or four army groups under its jurisdiction, with a strength of 2 1 division. Admiral Burke is in command. The "Southern" Army is assembled in Czechoslovakia and Silesia, and has three army groups, namely, 8, 10 and 14, under the command of General Lundstedt. At the same time, the German First Air Force and the Fourth Air Force provided air support to these two army groups. The German navy also sent more than twenty battleships to cooperate with the "Northern" army group. After the war broke out, the Germans invested 44 divisions, including 7 advanced armored divisions, 4 light armored divisions and 4 motorized infantry divisions. 1939 the plane was dispatched in the air for a surprise bombing. 2800 tanks were dispatched from the ground for lightning attack. Together with the reserve team, the total strength of the Germans attacking Poland reached 654.38+600,000.

On the other hand, Poland is the most powerful ally of Britain and France on the European continent, but it is still dwarfed by German equipment. As far as the ground forces are concerned, the Polish Army has only 39 infantry divisions. The equipment above is not as good as that of the Germans, 1000 light tanks with 4300 doors. 1 1 cavalry brigade is weaker than 1 German armored division, 3 mountain infantry brigades and 2 armored motorized brigades. Although the total number of people participating in the war exceeded 6,543,800+000, using these troops against the mechanized troops of the German army was completely to throw eggs at stones. On the first day of the war, more than 400 planes of the Polish Air Force were annihilated by German "lightning".

The disparity in strength between the two sides in the Polish campaign is the main reason for Poland's rapid demise.