75 years ago the Wehrmacht launched a total invasion of neighboring Poland in the name of reclaiming lost territory and creating Lebensraum. Overcoming Poland was central to Hitler’s vision of a number satellite, puppet states in territories such as Bohemia and Western Poland that would sustain an ascendant German people.

Hitler was assured Soviet complicity by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which guaranteed a division of Polish territory, and so moved to conquer Poland on 1 September 1939.

The conflict itself resulted in a decisive defeat for the Poles, even if the nature of the struggle has been distorted by several myths... (see more at: http://madefromhistory.com/)