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Case White - The Invasion of Poland 1939 (Paperback)
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Case White - The Invasion of Poland 1939 (Paperback)
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The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as
Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of
World War II in Europe. The campaign has widely been described as a
textbook example of Blitzkrieg, but it was actually a fairly
conventional campaign as the Wehrmacht was still learning how to
use its new Panzers and dive-bombers. The Polish military is often
misrepresented as hopelessly obsolete and outclassed by the
Wehrmacht, when in fact it was well-equipped with modern weapons
and armour. Indeed, the Polish possessed more tanks than the
British and had cracked the German Enigma machine cipher. Though
the combined assault from Germany and the Soviet Union defeated
Poland, it could not crush the Polish fighting spirit and thousands
of soldiers and airmen escaped to fight on other fronts. The result
of Case White was a brutal occupation, as Polish Slavs found
themselves marginalized and later eliminated, paving the way for
Hitler's vision of Lebensraum (living space) and his later betrayal
and invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Using a wide array of
sources, Robert Forczyk challenges the myths of Case White to tell
the full story of the invasion that sparked history's greatest
conflict.
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