The invasion of poland 1939
The invasion of poland 1939The Invasion of Poland in 1939
The invasion of Poland took place on September
1,1939. This invasion marked a change in history for the
whole world. It started World War II. There were many
reasons for the start of the war, and one it started the
world would never be the same. Cities and people were
destroyed. Unimaginable things took place in Poland
during this time, things that will never be forgotten.
The invasion lead to a great amount of bloodshed, but
Hitler needed to be stopped and if he wasn't there would
have been even more innocent people murdered.
In the early 1900's Germany was part of the axis
countries. Poland was in a decent state of affairs. The
two countries had some minor disagreements, yet they
lived in a nonviolent manner. In 1925 there was a peace
treaty signed by the two countries called the Locarno
Treaty. They signed another non-aggression treaty in the
year 1934. Hitler even early in the year 1939 talked
about how Germany and Poland could work together in peace
and harmony to make Europe a better place. Yet even in
this early time there were people being greatly
discriminated against in Germany due to Nazi influence.
Before the war there were many different people
living in the boundaries of Poland. There were 750,000
Germans living in Poland prior to 1939. Natural Poles
discriminated against the German's living in Poland. The
Poles made it hard for them to get job and pushed them
away from elections, they received little help from the
government. It is easy for people to discriminate against
people who are different from you. During this time
many immigrants everywhere in the world were receiving
harsh and sometimes violent treatment.
In the year 1919 there were 2 million Jews living in
Poland. By the year 1939 there were at least 3 million
Jews in Poland. The Jews made up one third of the people
in Poland's big cities. The Jews worked as shop owners
and merchants. They competed with peasants in their lines
of work. Economically the peasants ussally came out on
top in the competition over the Jews. All the competition
between the peasants and the Jews caused tension and
friction, which brought on an anti-Semitic attitude in
Poland.
The Jews in Poland were hit hard by an economical
depression. Yet the Jews had a great attitude, and they
wanted to better themselves. There were no Jewish schools
subsidized by the Polish government. But the Jews worked
hard to educate their children and enroll them in some
kind of activity to better their minds. The government
started to respect the hard working attitude that the
Jews had. So the Jews started receiving some help or
favors from the government, and they began to better
their role in the Polish society. Many Jews started to
play major role in the industrialization of Poland. As
the idea of Nazism became more popular in Germany it
started to make an impression on the people in Poland.
They were incited by the acts of anti-Semitism in Nazi
Germany. So the in the year 1936 began to act in violence
toward the Jews. At this time anti-Semitism in Poland was
more popular now than ever. There wasn't really state
sponsored violence but in...
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