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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello, everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, episode 116, the September

campaign part 8, Danzig and Army group, Modlin.

This week, a big thank you goes out to Michael and Keith for choosing to support the podcast by becoming members. You can find out more about

becoming a member over at History of the Second World War.com slash members. During this episode,

we're going to be discussing the events of the first roughly five days of the German invasion of Poland

in two important sectors. The first will be the areas around and inside of Danzig, the free

city on the Baltic Sea, adjacent to both the Polish corridor and East Prussia. The city and the

areas around it were also completely indefensible within the grand scheme of how the Polish

military leaders believed a German invasion would develop. It was almost inevitable that any

forces placed in and around Danzig would be cut off from assistance by a German attack across

the central or southern areas of the Polish corridor. The other area that we will focus on today will be the

area of the border defended by Army Group Modlin, which was positioned between the southern

border of East Prussia and the Polish capital of Warsaw. This was one of the most important

areas for Polish defense because it was only about 100 kilometers between the border and

the capital. It would be in

this region that the Polish military had the least margin of error due to the general importance of

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