The fall of Poland in 1939: 35 days that changed Europe
Eighty-seven years ago, on 6 October 1939, the last battle of the Polish campaign ended at Kock. The new series “FilmPartner24 – History” tells the story of those 35 days in an animated documentary.
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On 6 October 1939, General Franciszek Kleeberg and his Independent Operational Group “Polesie” laid down their arms at Kock. It was the last battle of the German invasion of Poland, which had begun in the early hours of 1 September when the battleship Schleswig-Holstein shelled the Westerplatte near Danzig. Just 35 days later, Poland was occupied and divided between the German Reich and the Soviet Union.
The animated documentary that launches FilmPartner24's new “History” series traces how it came to this: from the secret additional protocol of the Hitler–Stalin Pact of 23 August 1939 and the staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station to the advance of the Wehrmacht. It asks why France and Britain did not attack despite declaring war, what happened at the Bzura, in Warsaw and at Kock – and what the Red Army's invasion on 17 September meant for Poland.
The video is in German.