{"id":97086,"date":"2025-08-12T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=97086"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:17:52","slug":"german-soviet-invasion-of-poland-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/08\/12\/german-soviet-invasion-of-poland-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"German-Soviet Invasion of Poland 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7B1AkE6ePo8?si=7DdtYHjLa4Ao_RUC\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Real Time History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 8 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p>Germany and the Soviet Union both regarded the Polish state as a creation of the post-WW1 system, and both had claims on Polish territory. In the summer of 1939, Adolf Hitler decided to invade Poland in a <em>fait acompli<\/em> against the Allies. In a secret agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union they agreed on dividing up the Polish state and Eastern Europe.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT US<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory <\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nRose Flaglor, Reed Spilmann, Jim Frame, Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. 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