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Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt , 1875-1953, German field marshal. He proved his exceptional abilities in World War I. In World War II he commanded in the Polish campaign (1939), in the French campaign (1940), and in Russia (June-Dec., 1941). From Mar., 1942, to Mar., 1945, except for a brief period... Read more |
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Blitzkrieg
blitzkrieg, (‘lightning war’) a German word, now Anglicized, which has been attributed to Hitler, and was probably coined for intimidation purposes. First used in the Polish campaign in September 1939 it combined air power, tanks, and subversive warfare actuated by dynamic command... Read more |
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Charles Fuller
Charles Fuller 1939– ... Read more |
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Ludvik Svoboda
Svoboda, General Ludvik (1895–1979),Slovak Army officer who, after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, escaped to Poland and raised a Czech Legion which fought the Germans during the Polish campaign that autumn. The Legion then escaped to the USSR and in February 1942... Read more |
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phoney war
phoney war, US newspaper description of that period of military inactivity which followed the Anglo-French declaration of war on Germany on 3 September 1939. To the British it was also the Bore War— Churchill called it the Twilight War—while the French described it as la drôle... Read more |
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Eddie Kendricks
Eddie Kendricks 1939 Read more |
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Tom Hayden
Thomas Emmet Hayden The American writer and political activist Thomas Emmet Hayden (born 1939) was one of the few radical leaders of the 1960s to outlast the movement. He was admired for remaining alive politically without sacrifice of his principles. Tom Hayden was born Dec. 11, 1939, in... Read more |
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Hatch Act
HATCH ACT Enacted in 1939, the Hatch Act (5 U.S.C.A. 7324) curbs the political activities of employees in federal, state, and local governments. The law's goal is to enforce political neutrality among civil servants: the act prohibits them from holding public office, influencing elections,... Read more |
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Polish Corridor
Polish Corridor strip of German territory awarded to newly independent Poland by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The strip, 20 to 70 mi (32-112 km) wide, gave Poland access to the Baltic Sea. It contained the lower course of the Vistula, except the area constituting the Free City of Danzig (see ... Read more |
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Edward Rydz-Smigly
Edward Rydz-Śmigły , 1886-1941, Polish politician. He served under Piłsudski in the Polish Legions (1914-17), in the war with Soviet Russia (1920), and in the coup of 1926. At Piłsudski's death and in accordance with his wish, Rydz-Śmigły succeeded him (1935) as... Read more |
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Polish campaign
Polish campaign. The German invasion...Poland on 1 September 1939 marked the beginning...principal units of the Polish Navy consisted of...military doctrine, the Polish campaign provided the Wehrmacht...crystallized in August ... |
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Rommel, Erwin
...Rommel commanded the Führer's headquarters in the Polish campaign of 1939. As commander of the Seventh Panzer Division in...from February 1941 to March 1943 in the North Africa Campaign. Having achieved the position of a highly decorated... |
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ghettos
...were compelled to live after the Polish campaign in September 1939. Until this time, Nazi policy towards...Certainly, as early as January 1939, speaking in the Reichstag, he threatened...Reinhard Heydrich on 21 September 1939, even before ... |
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Danzig, free city of
Danzig, free city of (Polish: Gdańsk). Area of 1,950...overwhelmingly German with only 6% being Polish. It thus became part of Hitler's casus belli in launching the Polish campaign in September 1939.The Versailles settlement of... |
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Beck, Colonel Jósef
...anti-communist and anti-fascist Polish foreign minister from 1932 until 1939 who followed a policy of non-alignment...When his country was invaded in the Polish campaign of September 1939 he joined the Polish government in ... |
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Grand Alliance
...scale introduced by the British in 1939 until early in 1942. They were...had those of Poland during the Polish campaign in September 1939, and impose a total hegemony...French strategy in the summer of 1939 continued to guide British ... |
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Agency Africa
Agency Africa, Franco-Polish intelligence network which was...to France after the end of the Polish campaign in October 1939. He formed an intelligence network...July 1941 was ordered by the Polish government-in-exile to start... |
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Gleiwitz radio station, raid on
...raid on, faked assault by ‘Polish’ troops on a German radio station 1.6 km. (1 mi.) from the Polish border which became one of Hitler's pretexts for launching the Polish campaign in September 1939. The attack was organized by... |
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Halder, General Franz
...orchestrated a swift victory in the Polish campaign in October 1939.However, he viewed with horror...western offensive in the autumn of 1939 and for weeks contemplated plans...eds.), The Halder Diary, 1939–1942 (London, 1988; ed... |
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Sosnkowski, General Kazimierz
...Kazimierz (1885–1969),Polish Army officer who was deputy commander of the army during the Polish campaign in September 1939. After the death of General...armed forces controlled by the Polish government-in-exile and became... |
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World War II
...of Steel’ on 22 May 1939.War in Europe, 1939–1941After Blitzkrieg...inefficient and ill-equipped Polish army, Poland was occupied by 28 September 1939 and, according to...join the North African campaign as well as the costly...distracted by ... |
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Rundstedt, (Karl Rudolf) Gerd von
...marshal. He was called from retirement in 1939 to take command in the Polish and French campaigns of World War II. In 1941 he commanded the...launched the Battle of the Bulge in the ARDENNES Campaign in December 1944. Relieved of his command... |
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Germany
...1938) and of the Czech lands (1939). These successes led most Germans...invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which unleashed World War...wake of the initial Barbarossa campaign the Nazis embarked upon the...and Neisse were placed under Polish and Soviet ... |
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Accomplices with reservations: German diplomats and the preparation of the...
...the decisions made in summer 1939. And this is a difficult problem...fact which became striking in 1939, the year in which Nazi Germany...Ribbentrop had suggested to the Polish ambassador Josef Lipski that...personally by Hitler in January 1939 during ... |
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The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish-Americans, 1939-1956
Grondelski, John M. Polish-American Journal 02...Large contingents ofthe Polish Army left Poland at the end of the September 1939 campaign,planning to continue the...especially in GreatBritain). Polish soldiers and resistance... |
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U stop krolewskiego Wawelu: Spolecznosc ukrainska w Krakowie w latach...
...Krakowie w latach 1918-1939, by Tadeusz Filar. Krakow...8391575977. Paper. In Polish. The front cover shows...Polish Republic (1918-1939). The author points out...on the Polish September 1939 campaign in ... |
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Antologia poezji polskiej na obczyznie 1939-1999.(Book review)
(An anthology of Polish poetry in diaspora, 1939-1999) Selected...influential marketing campaign, became very popular...those interested in Polish poetry but regretfully...Soviet invasions of 1939, and the subsequent... |
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Polish cavalry didn't attack tanks
...strategic intelligence - of the Polish Pomorska Cavalry Brigade, which, in September, 1939, charged the tanks of...their book, The Polish Campaign 1939, found the origins of...Motorized Divison on Sept. 1, 1939. By the end ... |
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Polish groups seek restitution from state for war property theft
GERMANY: Jewish and Polish organisations have joined...issue when they meet Polish prime minister Jaroslaw...veterans of the compensation campaign, like Mr Szypowski...citizens in September 1939 at the start of the war...citizens on September 1st, ... |
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1939 Iron Cross given to museum; Doctor's family make donation.(News)
...had been found floating in the sea, was wearing the Iron Cross which had been presented to him by Hitler in 1939 after the Polish campaign. The then commander of HMS Tetcott, Henry Richard Rycroft, offered Dr Lewis the cross as a souvenir. And... |
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303 (Polish) Squadron: Battle of Britain Diary.(Book review)
303 (Polish) Squadron: Battle of...of Poland in September 1939, Polish Air Force combat...all Poles in France. Polish fighter pilots who had fought in the French Campaign were congregated in two all-Polish squadrons. This ... |
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JOSEPH DABROWSKI, FOUGHT WITH POLISH WWII FORCES
...Buffalo Avenue, who fought with Polish forces during World War II...States. He took part in the Polish army campaign in September 1939 and then was deported to Russia...1941. Dabrowski served with Polish land forces in Russia from ... |
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The Polish Underground Army, The Western Allies, and the Failure Of Strategic...
THE POLISH UNDERGROUND ARMY, THE WESTERN ALLIES...pages, $45.00. A discussion of Polish military involvement in World War II...brings to mind Germany's lightning campaign of 1939 or Polish General Stanislaw Sosabowski's paratroopers... |
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