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Second World War History > Poland WW2 Events Timeline
 

Poland WW2 Events Timeline

One of the first direct victims of the Nazi scourge in Europe.

 

Total Events: 29

1939
Thursday
August 31st

  Adolph Hitler provides the final orders for the invasion of Poland.

1939
Friday
September 1st

  German airborne elements begin bombardment of Polish defensive targets. At 6:00 AM, 50 German divisions making up Army Group North and Army Group South flood into Poland. Army Group South's mission is the capture of the Polish capital of Warsaw.

1939
Friday
September 8th

  German ground forces arrive at the outskirts of the Polish capital of Warsaw, covering an astounding 200 miles in a single week.

1939
Saturday
September 9th

  Polish Poznan army units launch a counter-offensive against the German army at Kutno on the Bzura.

1939
Sunday
September 10th

  Polish forces at the Modline fortress some 20 miles north of Warsaw fall under siege to the German Army.

1939
Sunday
September 17th

  Polish resistance at the Bzura River north of Lodz finally surrender to the Germans. Some 170,000 Polish prisoners are taken captive.

1939
Sunday
September 17th

  Soviet army elements begin their invasion of Poland from the east. Attacks occur near Vilnius and Bialystok.

1939
Monday
September 18th

  The Polish government flees into Romania.

1939
Monday
September 18th

  The Polish city of Vilnius falls to the Soviet army.

1939
Tuesday
September 19th

  German and Soviet army elements finally meet one another in Poland at Brest-Litovsk.

1939
Friday
September 22nd

  The Polish City of Lwow falls to the Soviet Army.

1939
Friday
September 22nd

  The Polish city of Bialystok falls to the Soviet Army.

1939
Wednesday
September 27th

  The Polish capital of Warsaw officially falls.

1939
Thursday
September 28th

  Polish forces fighting it out at the Modline fortress officially surrender.

1939
Friday
September 29th

  The German-Soviet Boundary Friendship Treay is signed between German representative von Ribbentrop and Soviet representative Molotov. Poland is divided into a western zone under German control and an eastern zone under Soviet control.

1939
Monday
October 2nd

  The last valiant gap of Polish resistance - numbering some 4,500 soldiers under the command of Admiral Unruh - north of Danzig on the Pubwysep Hela peninsula falls to the Germans.

1944
Tuesday
January 11th

  The first major Allied offensive to take Cassino is launched.

1944
Friday
February 11th

  A blanket retreat is enacted by the Allies in an attempt to regroup and plan a new strategy to take Cassino.

1944
Tuesday
February 15th

  Following the Allied aerial bombardment, the second major Allied offensive to take Cassino is launched.

1944
Saturday
February 19th - March 13th

  The Italian winter makes its arrival and postpones any further Allied offensives for the next month.

1944
Wednesday
March 15th - March 21st

  Positions on Monte Cassino are officially in Allied hands.

1944
Wednesday
March 15th

  Artillery guns open up on Cassino while 600-plus Allied bombers attempt to shake the German defenders.

1944
Wednesday
March 15th

  A third major Allied offensive is put into action.

1944
Wednesday
March 22nd

  With mounting losses in both manpower and tanks, further Allied thrusts are called off.

1944
Thursday
March 23rd - May 10th

  A lengthy six-week period allows the Allies to rebuild their forces - though this period allows the Germans to increase their defensive foothold.

1944
Thursday
May 11th

  A combined British, Polish and American assault converge on Cassino involving the British 13th Corps, the Polish II Corps and the US 5th Army.

1944
Thursday
May 11th

  The fourth offensive to take Cassino is put into action.

1944
Thursday
May 18th

  The Poles take Monte Calvario.

1944
Thursday
May 18th

  Monte Cassino falls to the Allies, costing some 50,000 casualties along both sides of the battlefield.

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