Major conflict1939

Invasion of Poland

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Poland

Estimated casualties

200Ksingle estimate · no range published

German and Soviet invasion establishing occupation of Poland and initiating European theater of World War II.

Belligerents3

Germany
Poland
Soviet Union

ON THE MAPThird Reich (1939)Soviet Union (interwar)

Conflict graph

PART OFWorld War II

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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