Hitler's War on Poland: The Fall of Warsaw (TRIH ep 532, part 3)
1939 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) recounts the Nazi invasion and conquest of Poland in September 1939. It opens with Mayor Stefan Starzynski's famous Warsaw broadcast and then covers the opening actions: the shelling of Westerplatte and the assault on the Polish post office in Danzig.
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