109: The September Campaign Pt. 1 - Poland

History of the Second World War

Wesley Livesay

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On September 1, 1939 the German Wehrmacht would begin their invasion of Poland. But before we get there, we need to look at Interwar Poland. During this episode we will look at developments in Polish internal politics and foreign relations. Sources: - Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 by Rober Forczyk - Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse - Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie - The Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective Edited by Frank McDonough - The Polish Campaign 1939 by Steven Zaloga and Victor Madej - The Foreign Policy of Jozef Pilsudski and Jozef Beck, 1926-1939: Misconceptions and Interpretations by Anna M. Cienciala - The French Government and the Danzig Crisis: The Italian Dimension by P.R. Stafford - Reflections from Rumania and Beyond: Marshal Smigly-Rydz in Exile by Stanley S. Seidner - Macht Arbeit Frei? Chapter: The War against Poland and the Beginning of German Economic Policy in the Occupied Territory by Witold Wojciech Medykowski - Poland Between the Wars, 1918-1939 Edited by Peter D. Stachura - Poland's Preparation for World War Two by Michael Alfred Peszke - The Rebirth and Progress of the Polish Military During the Interwar Years by Jacek Czarnecki - The Eastern Pact, 1933-1935: A Last Attempt at European Co-operation by Lisanne Radice (1977) - The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933 by Zara Steiner - Agreement of Mutual Assistance between the United Kingdom and Poland, August 25, 1939. - Blitzkrieg Unleashed by Richard Hargreaves - The Great Powers and Poland: From Versailles to Yalta by Jan Karski - The History of the Panzerwaffe Volume 1: 1939-42 by Thomas Anderson - September Storm: The German Invasion of Poland by Gordon Rottman & Stephen Andrew - Britain and Poland, 1939-1943: The Betrayed Ally by Anita J. Prazmowska - March 1939: The British Guarantee to Poland - A Study in the Continuity of British Foreign Policy by Simon Newman (1976) - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg by Steven J. Zaloga - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer - Various Documents from the British Cabinet Papers, particularly CAB 55/19/15, CAB 65/1, CAB 65/3, and CAB 66/1 - Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918-1945 - Reflections from Rumania and Beyond: Marshal Smigly-Rydz in Exile by Stanley S. Seidner - The British War Blue Book: Documents Concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities Between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939 - The French Yellow Book: Diplomatic Documents (1938-1939) Contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on History of the Second World War. History of the Second World War is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode 109, the September campaign part 1, Poland.
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1:09.5	Welcome to this series of episodes I have entitled the September
1:12.7	campaign. In the early hours of September 1st, 1939, the German invasion of Poland
1:18.4	would begin. Once the invasion began, it would continue until early October when the last
1:23.8	organized resistance ended. The basic outline of the campaign is well known to anybody
1:28.6	who has done much of any reading on the Second World War. The Germans invade, steamroll over the Polish
1:35.0	forces, then the Soviets invade from the east, carving off their own little bit of Polish territory,
1:40.0	and then the fighting would end. Of course, the actual story is quite a bit more complicated.
1:45.9	These episodes will start by looking at the situation in Poland before the invasion,
1:50.7	because in a campaign as short as the September campaign,
1:54.8	almost every important decision about the defense of Poland had already been made by September 1st, and the events that followed
2:02.4	were really just paying off those earlier decisions. After we discuss Poland and its plans to
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