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Public execution of Polish hostages by the newly established German occupation authority, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 8 or 9 Sep 1939	German Heinkel He 111 aircraft bombing Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939

German troops engaging in street fighting in a Polish town, Sep 1939	German troops forcing entry into a building, Western Poland, mid-Sep 1939

Panzer I (foreground) and Panzer II (background) tanks of SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division crossing the Bzura River in Poland, Sep 1939	Polish family huddling before the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939

Boy with caged canary in ruins, Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939	German troops of SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division resting during a campaign toward Pabianice, Poland, Sep 1939

Wilhelm Keitel in a staff car, Lodz, Poland, Sep 1939	German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers flying over German troops, Poland, Sep 1939

Polish volunteer policemen watching German aircraft in the sky, Grand Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939	A young boy sitting next to his dead mother, recently killed by strafing German aircraft, near Jana Ostroroga Street in Warsaw, Poland, 13 Sep 1939

German officers Keitel, Reichenau, Daluege, and Bodenschatz in Poland, 13 Sep 1939	Photographer Julien Bryan comforting ten-year-old Polish girl Kazimiera Mika whose sister had just been killed by strafing German aircraft, near Jana Ostroroga Street, Warsaw, Poland, 13 Sep 1939

Ten-year-old Polish girl Kazimiera Mika mourning the death of her sister, caused by strafing German aircraft, near Jana Ostroroga Street, Warsaw, Poland, 13 Sep 1939, photo 1 of 2	Ten-year-old Polish girl Kazimiera Mika mourning the death of her sister, caused by strafing German aircraft, near Jana Ostroroga Street, Warsaw, Poland, 13 Sep 1939, photo 2 of 2

Aerial view of destroyed buildings between Zielna and Marszalkowska Streets in Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939	Polish Bofors anti-aircraft gun abandoned after the column was attacked by German aircraft during the Battle of the Bzura, near Kutno, Poland, Sep 1939

Aerial view of Fort II of the Warsaw Fortress (Wawrzyszew), Poland, Sep 1939	Aerial view of Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939, photo 1 of 3; note columns of smoke from fires