The Invasion of Poland in World War Two

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🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode from the archive, Roger Moorhouse discusses the Polish campaign of 1939 comprehensively, separating the myths from reality and outlining the abject horrors that the Poles suffered under the twin occupation of the Nazis and the Soviets.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dance Know's History It.
0:02.9	On the 1st of September 1939 at 4.45 am, the German battleship Schleswig Holstein opened
0:10.8	fire on Polish positions in the free city of Danzig on the Baltic coast.
0:18.9	They were the first shots of the Second World War in Europe, German armoured infantry units
0:23.5	already crossed the border at several points and a propaganda operation was in place to
0:29.3	claim that German forces were acting in self-defense.
0:32.4	The German invasion of Poland had begun, it would lead to declarations of war by Britain
0:38.0	and France on Germany to start another war on the European continent.
0:44.1	This episode of History Hit is a replay of one that we first broadcasted on the anniversary
0:48.4	of that event in 2019 on the 80th anniversary.
0:52.9	It's got Roger Morehouse, one of our favourite historians here at History Hit.
0:56.0	These reference series of books on Polish German history from the Second World War, and
1:00.4	you wrote a great account of this battle for Poland in 1939.
1:05.0	We've got a flutter of World War II podcasts after the moment, Richard Overy, the world's
1:09.4	greatest expert on Second World War, with his sighting new interpretation of the war as
1:13.4	a great clash of imperial entities, and we've got a lot of Second World War material on
1:17.6	History Hit TV, real lot of it, I'm afraid to say.
1:19.7	A lot of documentaries about it, a lot of podcasts.
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