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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10522071" data-attributes="member: 92282"><a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1155143" target="_blank">World War 2: Before the War </a>World War 2: Invasion of Poland / Winter War ++ add rep if you like the post <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_2/s_w01_3a03844u.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> View of an undamaged Polish city from the cockpit of a German medium bomber aircraft, likely a Heinkel He 111 P, in 1939. <img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_2/s_w02_90429179.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> In 1939, the Polish army still maintained many  cavalry squadrons, which had served them well as recently as the  Polish-Soviet War in 1921. A myth emerged about the Polish cavalry  leading desperate charges against the tanks of the invading Nazis,  pitting horsemen against armored vehicles. While cavalry units did  encounter armored divisions on occasion, their targets were ground  infantry, and their charges were often effective. Nazi and Soviet  propaganda helped fuel the myth of the noble-yet-backward Polish  cavalry. This photo is of a Polish cavalry squadron on maneuvers  somewhere in Poland, on April 29, 1939. <img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_2/s_w03_90711014.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Associated Press correspondent Alvin Steinkopf  broadcasting from the Free City of Danzig -- at the time, a  semi-autonomous city-state tied to Poland. Steinkopf was relating the  tense situation in Danzig back to America, on July 11, 1939. Germany had  been demanding the incorporation of Danzing into the Third Reich for  months, and appeared to be preparing military action. <img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_2/s_w04_30012077.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Soviet premier Josef Stalin (second from right),  smiles while Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (seated), signs  the non-aggression pact with German Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von  Ribbentrop (third from right), in Moscow, on August 23, 1939. The man at  left is Soviet Deputy Defense Minister and Chief of the General Staff,  Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov. The nonaggression pact included a secret  protocol dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence in the event  of a conflict. The pact now guaranteed that Hitler's troops would face  no resistance from the Soviets if they invaded Poland, bringing the war  one step closer to reality. <img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_2/s_w05_09010260.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Two days after Germany signed the non-aggression  pact with the USSR, Great Britain entered into a military alliance with  Poland, on August 25, 1939. This photo shows the scene one week later,  on September 1, 1939, one of the first military operations of Germany's  invasion of Poland, and the beginning of World War II. Here, the German  battleship Schleswig-Holstein is bombing a Polish military transit depot  at Westerplatte in the Free City of Danzig. Simultaneously, the German  Air Force (Luftwaffe), and ground troops (Heer) were attacking several  other Polish targets. </blockquote>

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