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Germany invades Poland, September 1, 1939, using 45 German divisions and aerial attack. By September 20, only Warsaw held out, but final surrender came on September 29.
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Willy Brandt's historic request for forgiveness in Warsaw
In 1970 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt traveled to Poland, where he signed the...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail Adrian Grycuk; © 1966 German Features/German Information Center

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A family marching at the head of a column of Jews on their way to be deported during...
National Archives and Records Administration/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Two auxiliary police officers attached to the SS surveying the bodies of Jews killed...
National Archives and Records Administration/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org
Mordecai Anielewicz
Mordecai Anielewicz.
Yad Vashem Photo Archives/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; www.ushmm.org
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Jews captured during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 are lined up against a wall...
National Archives and Records Administration/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org
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An SS sergeant interrogating Jews captured during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto...
National Archives and Records Administration/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org
Yitzhak Zuckerman.
© Zydowski Instytut Historyczny Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org

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