Poland

Poland has a flag that features the two national colors. The flag has two horizontal stripes of equal width, the one on top is white and the bottom is red.Administrations also have a white eagle on a red shield on the white part of the flag.

* Most Polish Jews were unable to escape. * Some fled eastwards into the Soviet Union, but unless they were able to stay behind the Soviet lines after June 1941 that didn't help them. * A number managed to get permission to travel through the Soviet Union to the Far East.

Depends on the drugs. Marijuana is not legal anywhere on the planet. Including Denmark. The police just look the other way.

Nothing special happened in 1796, perhaps you mean 1795.

In 1795, the Third Partition of Poland took place the third and last of three partitions that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Poland was divided between Russian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia and Habsburg Austria.

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Hungary was occupied by Germany in May, 1944.

Poland didn't exist in WWI. The Polish speaking peoples were split between Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany.

Richard in Polish is Ryszard.

Poland was under foreign military occupation.

To punish Germany for starting the war and also to make them mad.

The Italians invaded Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia) in Oct 1935.

This invasion was an attempt to strengthen the Kingdom of Italy before war broke in Europe. Although somewhat confusing this action should not be considered directly part of WWII. It is more of an colonial move.

Technically, no one did. Russia took over Poland in the 1790s. They pretty much absorbed Poland and took away its sovereignty. There was no Poland until after World War I, when Poland was reformed.

The first Jews in Poland migrated there from the German regions as Jews moved eastward into Russia. However, the return journey from Russia back west seeded Poland's largest Jewish communities.

yes everwhere you do Any EU driving licence will be acceptable for driving in Poland; for EU citizens there is no need to get an international licence.

Poles and Russians are old long-term enemies who have fought a number of wars over the last 1000 years. Poland and Russia fought a number of battles and skirmishes in the 13th to 16th centuries and Russia participated in the three partitions of Poland which resulted in Poland disapering from the map of Europe in 1795. When Poland reapeared after WW1 Soviet Russia took advantage of Poland's initial weak situation and attacked Poland resulting in a prolonged war which finished in 1920. Russia attacked Poland again on 17 September 1939 as part of the Nazi-Soviet pack against Poland which started WW2. Russia has committed a number of attrocitied against Polish nationals including the 1940 Katyn messacre of over 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals which was designed to wipe out Polish national identy and facilite Russification of Polish population occupied by the Russians during WW2.

There were really no difference in the actual invasions (except in battle tactics that were specifically altered because of the different geography).

The difference was that Poland had a standing alliance with Britain and France, so Germany's invasion of Poland provoked Britain and France into declaring open war on Germany. China had no alliances with any Western country, so the Japanese invaded China with impunity.

Since the borders of Poland consist mainly of natural borders (sea, rivers and mountain ranges), the country doesn't have any specific geometrical shape, although you might say it resembles a square or a trapezoid with the southeastern corner elongated. Generally, Poland - a relatively large European country located in Central Europe - has a compact shape, which means that the distance between the geographical centre of the country and any point on the border does not vary greatly. Among the few areas that stick out from the "main body" of Poland's outline there are: the southernmost tip of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship to the Southeast, the Hel Peninsula on the Baltic Sea to the North, and the Kłodzko Valley in the Sudetes mountain range to the Southwest. Historically, the shape of Poland varied as different conflicts, wars and political arrangements changed the layout of national borders in the area. At times Poland was erased from the map completely, notably during the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and WW2.

It depends on which century you're talking about - in the 18th & 19th century Poland was partitioned between Prussia, Austria & Russia. It regained independence after the First World War but was invaded by Germany and Russia and divided between them in 1939.

In 1938 Karol Wojtyla started studying in the University Jagiellonski, which was closed down in the beginning of the World War 2 by the Germans. He then worked in a quarry (1940-1944) and in the "Solvay" chemical factory in order to avoid being deported to Germany. During WW2 Karol Wojtyla was also studying in a secret Catholic seminary and was active in an "underground liberation movement" in a "Rhapsody Theatre".

he also wanted little boys that would "help" him with his study

Poland boundaries shifted west and north at defeated Germany expense, while east was annexed by Soviet Union.

Churchill first proposed this compromise at Tehran conference and demonstrated it on the map using three matches and napkin. Roosevelt and Stalin agreed and deal was struck. Great example how casually great leaders could decide fate of whole countries and millions of people.

Lech Walesa is still among the living.

Much of its industry and infrastructure was very badly damaged. It lost its independence, first to Germany and the Soviet Union and towards the end of WW2 it became a Soviet satellite. The Nazis tried to liquidate its intellectuals and the Soviet Union murdered many of its army officers. In all, Poland lost about 6 million dead in WW2, of whom about half were Jews. Poland regained its independence at the end of the 1980s.

Lech Walesa was able to free Poland from Communist rule by forming the Solidarity Movement. He gathered workers together and established a trade union, which was started in August of 1980, that asked for worker rights and improvement in the working conditions. In 1989, Solidarity was able to propose a candidate for its election, and Walesa won the 1990 election for the presidency. He was able to lead his country in this post-communist era.

Auschwitz.

The first gas chamber used in September 1941 was just a prison cell which was made air-tight. After this they converted the mortuary into a gas chamber, for greater capacity and convenience (as it was in the same building as the crematorium). The next winter the first purpose built gas chambers were constructed.