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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode 125, the September

campaign part 17, a war on two fronts.

By the middle of September, the general situation for Poland had greatly deteriorated.

The defenders of Warsaw were cut off from reinforcements or retreats by the advance of German troops east of the city.

In southern Poland, a sizable number of Polish troops had retreated, or were

retreating, to what was known as the Romanian bridgehead, which was the territory from the city of

Vov to the Polish-Romanian border to the southeast. This bridgehead mostly only existed because

there were not enough German troops to continue to put pressure on it,

with a sizable number of German troops devoted to the siege of Warsaw and the occupation of other

territories in South and Central Poland. The entire invasion had gone mostly according to German

plans up to this point, and really the most pessimistic plans of Poland's leaders from before

the war. Things were about

to get much worse, though, due to the actions of the Soviet Union. During the negotiations that led

to the Molotov-Riven-Trop pact, the topic of Poland had been discussed, and the secret agreements

of that treaty had codified the agreement between the two nations that they would carve up

Poland between them. On September 17th, the Red Army would cross the border to secure the Soviet

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