Real Time History

Season 2025, Episode 13

Episode Title: German-Soviet Invasion of Poland 1939

Air Date: 2025-08-08

Overview:

Germany and the Soviet Union both regarded the Polish state as a creation of the post-WW1 system, and both had claims on Polish territory. In the summer of 1939, Adolf Hitler decided to invade Poland in a fait acompli against the Allies. In a secret agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union they agreed on dividing up the Polish state and Eastern Europe.