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29 Jul 2010
History / Any Polish real war videos? [4]
Explore the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a key Nazi.
The following is from Wikipedia:
1942 propaganda posterThe European theater of World War II opened with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. The Polish Army was pushed back.
After Poland had been overrun, a government-in-exile, an armed forces, and an intelligence service were established outside of Poland. These organisations contributed to the Allied effort throughout the war. Polish Army was recreated in the West, as well as in the East (after German invasion of the Soviet Union).
Poles provided some important help to the Allies throughout the war. Polish soldiers fought on land, on the seas and in the air. Notable was the service of the Polish Air Force, not only in the Allied victory in the Battle of Britain but also the subsequent war in the air; the defense of Tobruk; the capture of the German-held monastery hill of Monte Cassino; a role in the battle of the Falaise pocket; and an airborne brigade parachute drop during Operation Market Garden. Some Polish contributions were less visible, and most notably included the prewar and wartime decyphering of German Enigma machine codes by cryptologists Marian Rejewski and his colleagues. The Polish intelligence network also proved to be of much value to the Allied intelligence.
As Poland never made a general surrender or produced a collaborative puppet government unlike France: it was directly governed by a purely German administration known as the Generalgouvernement. This administration was in turn opposed by the Polish Underground State, which not only fielded one of the largest partisan forces in existence, but was a unique underground government, a phenomenon not witnessed in other occupied countries.
I don't know why you would need a video, does your friend read?
Explore the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a key Nazi.
The following is from Wikipedia:
1942 propaganda posterThe European theater of World War II opened with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. The Polish Army was pushed back.
After Poland had been overrun, a government-in-exile, an armed forces, and an intelligence service were established outside of Poland. These organisations contributed to the Allied effort throughout the war. Polish Army was recreated in the West, as well as in the East (after German invasion of the Soviet Union).
Poles provided some important help to the Allies throughout the war. Polish soldiers fought on land, on the seas and in the air. Notable was the service of the Polish Air Force, not only in the Allied victory in the Battle of Britain but also the subsequent war in the air; the defense of Tobruk; the capture of the German-held monastery hill of Monte Cassino; a role in the battle of the Falaise pocket; and an airborne brigade parachute drop during Operation Market Garden. Some Polish contributions were less visible, and most notably included the prewar and wartime decyphering of German Enigma machine codes by cryptologists Marian Rejewski and his colleagues. The Polish intelligence network also proved to be of much value to the Allied intelligence.
As Poland never made a general surrender or produced a collaborative puppet government unlike France: it was directly governed by a purely German administration known as the Generalgouvernement. This administration was in turn opposed by the Polish Underground State, which not only fielded one of the largest partisan forces in existence, but was a unique underground government, a phenomenon not witnessed in other occupied countries.
I don't know why you would need a video, does your friend read?