The Soviet Union also invaded Poland around the same time. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 from the West, and the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17th of the same year from the East.
They attacked Poland from the east to ensure that they received their fair share of territory
no, a German minister did it for him.
The Invasion of Poland, 1939 and "the 1939 Defensive War in Germany, was carried out by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and a small German-allied Slovak contingent. Germany captured the Soviet-occupied areas of Poland when it invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, and lost the territory in 1944 to an advancing Red Army.
1. In Asia: the Japanese invasion of China. 2. In Europe: the German invasion of Poland (and later, in 1941, also of the Soviet Union).
The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 succeeded in part because they attacked with no warning. The Soviet Union didn't have time to react to the German army's invasion.
1. In Asia: the Japanese invasion of China. 2. In Europe: the German invasion of Poland (and later, in 1941, also of the Soviet Union).
The Soviet invasion of Poland was informally declared on September 17, 1939. The invasion ended on October 6, 1939 with the division and annexing of Poland by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
It attacked Poland from the east as part of the nazi-soviet pact.
The invasion of Poland came first. The genocide followed later. ------------------------------ The real question would be: Did the Holocaust or the invasion of the Soviet Union come first? or rather: Did the Holocaust cause the invasion of the Soviet Union or did the invasion of the Soviet Union cause the Holocaust? (because there is no clear answer)
It attacked Poland from the east as part of the nazi-soviet pact.
The Japanese incursion into Manchuria in 1937, the German Invasion of Poland in 1939, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
Nonaggression pact