Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Pact in Moscow, August 1939: Von Ribbentrop ... recalling that the war began with the Nazi-Soviet pact, and that Poland lost about six million citizens in the ...

Newsreader Lionel Marson announces that Germany has invaded Poland and the armed forces in ... In London preparations for war continue; Queen Elizabeth, consort to HRH King George VI, visits ...

At dawn on 1 September, 1939, Germany bombed the Polish city ... was estimating the value of the reparations made to Poland after the war. "Those reparations were not adequate to our losses.

Like other death camp sites, Treblinka was linked by rail to major Jewish communities in its region of Poland. The deportation ... or non-Jewish--during World War II. In just a seven-week period ...