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Music Hello, everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, episode 118, the September campaign part 10, the Central Front.

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Last episode, we discussed the events on the southern end of the Polish corridor, where the Polish Army Pormorcia faced an almost impossible situation with threats from both the east and the west.

This episode will shift focus to the south a little bit, focusing on the attacks by Army Group South against the three Polish armies that it was facing, the Poznan,

the Wuj and the Krakov armies. One of the key geographical features in this area of the front,

particularly in the center behind Army Wooj, would be the Varta River, which was positioned

roughly parallel, but about 60 kilometers east of the border.

The three armies would also be named after the three cities in Western Poland that they

would be guarding, Posden, Wuge, and Krakow, which were important Polish population

and production centers. Facing these three Polish armies were three German armies,

the 8th, 10th, and the 14th, which were grouped under Army Group South and its commander,

General von Roonstead. Rundsted had the majority of the forces attacking Poland under his

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