No surprise since the Russian act of aggression came just before the 75 th anniversary of the German invasion of Poland. ![]() In 2014, when Russia forcibly annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine, Poles were among those who protested most loudly. It was the beginning of a war over the future of Poland it was the beginning of the Second World War, a struggle for the fate of the world. The assault on Danzig was the opening act of the full-scale invasion of Poland as some one-and-a-half million men of the German Army moved out of their encampments and into combat. ![]() The survivors staggered outside to surrender where the SS men gunned them down. Their attackers then lit the building on fire. The workers in the post office held out until, outgunned, they retreated into the basement. The shooting started in the early morning, 4:45 AM, September 1, 1939, when the obsolete German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire from its berth in the Free City of Danzig.Īs the ship’s big guns hammered Polish fortifications on the Westerplatte peninsula, undercover agents of the Schutzstaffel, the SS, began seizing control of key buildings in the city.
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