Invasion of Poland Photographs | World War II Database

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Polish soldiers marching, circa 1939	German battleship Schleswig-Holstein bombarding Westerplatte, Danzig, 1 Sep 1939. Photo 1 of 2.

German battleship Schleswig-Holstein bombarding Westerplatte, Danzig, 1 Sep 1939. Photo 2 of 2.	German troops at the Egiertowo crossroads on the road to Danzig during the initial invasion of Poland, 1 Sep 1939. Note the heavy German reliance on horse-drawn transports.

German troops escorting the fighters who had surrendered at the Danzig post office, 1 Sep 1939	German troops removing a gate at a border checkpoint, Zoppot-Gdingen (Sopot-Gdynia) Street in Danzig (Gdańsk), 1 Sep 1939, photo 1 of 2

German troops removing a gate at a border checkpoint, Zoppot-Gdingen (Sopot-Gdynia) Street in Danzig (Gdańsk), 1 Sep 1939, photo 2 of 2	German troops removing the Polish emblem from the wall of a post office in Danzig, 1 Sep 1939

German women living in Poland giving bread to German soldiers, Poland, 2 Sep 1939	Sailors inspected damage on Schleswig-Holstein caused by Polish coastal batteries of Hel Penninsula, Sep 1939

Demonstration in Warsaw, Poland in support of the British declaration of war on Germany, 3 Sep 1939	German Panzer I, Panzer II, and SdKfz. 251 vehicles in Poland, circa 3 Sep 1939; the officer in the SdKfz. 251 halftrack vehicle might be Heinz Guderian

A girl holding her dog, 8 Żelazna Street, Warsaw, Poland, 5 Sep 1939	A lone horse wondering a recent battlefield, Poland, Sep 1939

City of Wielun, Poland damaged after German aerial bombing, Sep 1939	German motorized troops traveling on muddy road in Poland, Sep 1939

German soldiers at the Westerplatte, Danzig, 7 Sep 1939	Aerial view of a Polish city through the gunner's station aboard a German He 111 bomber, Sep 1939

German aerial bombs straddling a road in Poland, Sep 1939	Ferdinand Catlos observing the front lines, Poland, Sep 1939