Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)
September 1939 – May 1945
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and divided Poland, and Germany later held the whole country. The occupiers killed millions of Polish citizens, including about three million Polish Jews in the Holocaust.
Battles and events 2
January 21–22, 1940
Czortków uprising
Soviet victory
September 7, 1943
Operation Bürkl
Polish victory