Poland

Poland was the first country to be invaded by Hitler's army. It was overun in about 3 weeks with tht use of blitzkrieg tactics.

Germany and Russia both attacked Poland at the same time(at that time, Germany had a pact with Russia). Poland fought bravely but they were no match as the Germans advanced from the west and the Russians from the east. After the fall of Poland, some fled to other countries and the prisoners of war were moved to Russia and Germany. Then Germany broke their pact with Russia and invaded them. The British were desperate for manpower as the US had not joined the Allies and they were fighting the Battle of Britain and the North African campaign. British negotiated with Russia for the release of the Polish prisoners so they could be used to fight the Germans. On July 30, 1941, the leader of the Polish Government in exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski reached an agreement with the Russian government to allow the Polish prisoners of war to be released.

In April 1942, Russia released 26,000 Polish veterans that organized the first two Polish divisions in Uzbekistan. The Poles were moved to Iraq for further training and equipping. By August 1942, an additional 44,000 soldiers and 26,000 civilians joined them. The training ended in June 1943. At the Quebec conference in August, Rooservelt & Churchill decided to send the Polish Corps to Italy. Prior to arriving in Italy, the Polish II Corps totaled 45,000 men.

The Polish troops fought bravely in Italy and at the battle of Monte Cassino. They continued to fight in Italy throughout 1944 and 1945 under the command of the British 8th Army, expecting that they would regain their homeland after the final victory. However, after the war, Poland was placed under the control of the Soviet Union.

Some of the Polish prisoners held by the Germans were allowed to fight in the German army. There were a few examples of Polish soldiers who served under the flag of Poland, then Germany, then Britain.

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At the beginning of WW2, Poland was independent for only 20 years, after regaining independency after 125 years of being partitioned, not enough to prepare for the war. Within days Poland was attacked by both Germany from the West and Soviets from the East. still at the begining of WW2, Poland had a larger army than ...US although US had a fleet.

Marie Curie (from Poland) and Pierre Curie (from France) in 1898.

Not much. Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940-45 and then by Soviet Russia.

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I don't know where Auschwitz-Birkenau was located, but the word I just bolded was the largest and most efficient death camp existing out of all the others in Hitler's Europe. This camp is located in Poland though.

The money that is currently used is the złoty. 5 złoty are roughly one pound.

There are plans for Poland to join the Euro Zone by 2012, but this might happen as late as 2015.

It's Kaliningrad.

In Poland you greet people by saying 'Dziendobry', which means good day.

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Poland has about 1.2 million visitors each year. The most popular cities for tourists to visit are Krakow, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Warsaw, Poznan, Lublin, and Torun.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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Because the Nazis saw them as an inferior race. Although the Poles didn't suffer as much as the Jews, German hatred against Poland was rampant.

Many Wehrmacht units engaged in massacres of Polish civilians during the 1939 September Campaign. Afterwards, the Einsatzgruppen murder squads began the elimination of the Polish elite (scholars, teachers, librarians, professors etc.)

In fact, many Nazi officials sought the extermination of the entire Polish population. SS-Reichfuhrer Heinrich Himmler stated "All Poles will disappear from the earth"

Polish Language Council was created in 1996.

Germany attacked Poland at the start of the war to establish a stronghold. By expanding their territory into Poland they would not only have more land but they would also not have to fight the war on two fronts.

Gets destroyed and burned,so that the nazis can build houses other it

That was first thing that the nazis did when they took other poland, get jews at their home and send them to ghettos like warsaw ghetto and destroyed all jewish buildings and jewish homes and build new aryan homes,so thought be the nazis

Yes, Poland has both a prime minister and a president.

probably less than a thousandth of one percentage and that is no doubt an over-estimation.

Hitler invaded Poland (effectively starting World War 2) September 1st, 1939

Yes, based on what I have read about the Blitzkrieg, I think that the poles would be better being defended against.

Generally, the gifts are from Santa Claus. However, there are some regional variations, e.g. in western parts of Poland it is sometimes believed it is Baby Jesus who gives the gifts.

Poland was important to world war II because they had a powerful leader.

The Baltic Sea.