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Music Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War.

Episode 126, the September campaign part 18, mopping up.

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Last episode covered the entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Poland, when forces

of the Red Army crossed the Polish border in the early hours of September 17th.

This event heralded the beginning of the end for Polish resistance, and the next three

episodes of the podcast will discuss the final actions of the Polish military

all over Poland in the last weeks of September. Due to the disorganization of the first three

weeks of the month, the final week of September would see disparate and isolated units all over

Poland surrendering to the German or Soviet invaders. These events were not well organized or orchestrated.

They were instead the actions of groups of Polish soldiers, big and small, that would slowly

have their options reduced by the two invading armies until the only option was to surrender

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