What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The flames of World War II began in Poland. World War II is a war that changed a lot, it was to destroy many people's families, and to set the world's economy back many years. It was an evil war, a fascist alliance with Germany, Japan and Italy at its core. Germany took the lead in the war in Europe, and in an instant Europe fell into the vortex of war, Japan opened up a battlefield in China, and Italy was scourge in Africa. The otherwise peaceful world is shrouded in the shadow of war.
In September 1939, Germany launched a war of aggression against Poland code-named "White". During the war, the German army successfully carried out "blitzkrieg" for the first time, showing the power of tank corps to carry out large-depth and rapid assaults in coordination with aviation. A country with a population of 34 million and an army of more than 1 million perished in just over a month. World War II thus broke out.
Poland is strategically located in the east of Europe, bordering the Soviet Union in the east, Germany in the west, Czechoslovakia in the south, and the Baltic Sea in the north. Fascist Germany's war of aggression against Poland was an important part of Hitler's general plan for war in his vain attempt to dominate the world. Poland was the most militarily powerful of the British and French allies in Europe at that time. If Germany occupied Poland, it would not only be able to obtain a large number of military and economic resources, but also greatly improve its strategic position: it could eliminate the worries of attacking Britain and France, and it could also establish bases to attack the Soviet Union.
On September 1, 1939, the German army used "blitzkrieg" to tear through the defense line of about 800,000 people of the 6 Polish armies in western Poland. Tens of thousands of cannons fired at the border, and shells poured down on the Polish positions like rain. The Polish were unprepared for the German "Blitzkrieg", and within a few minutes the Poles had the largest sudden death and destruction from the air in human history.
The Polish cavalry, because they did not understand the performance of tanks, suffered great losses. One Polish artillery regiment was caught up by tanks on the way, all annihilated, only two guns had a chance to fire, and the Polish infantry suffered heavy casualties. In just four days, all 3 infantry divisions and 1 cavalry brigade of the Polish Army were annihilated, while the 4 German divisions only killed 150 people and wounded 700 people.
Since the outbreak of the war, the people of all countries have thrown themselves into the anti-fascist road and formed an anti-fascist alliance with Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, China, and France as the core. With the joint operations of Britain and France, through several major battles, the war was turned around, and the German ravages in Europe were stopped. Although the Italian army in Africa occupied a great advantage in the early stages, it was gradually defeated with the entry of the British and French armies, and the Japanese army in Asia was dragged by the Chinese battlefield, coupled with the war with the United States, which led to the inability to get out of the quagmire of the war, and finally was forced to admit defeat with the arrival of other countries' armies.
After the end of World War II, the world was devastated. The countries suffered heavy losses, and everyone's thinking at that time was on which country had the most dead, so if we counted the heavy losses, China and the Soviet Union were the ones who suffered the most, but according to the proportion of population, the losses of China and the Soviet Union were indeed not the most serious. Poland suffered the worst losses in World War II, with one out of every five of its citizens lost to the war, leading to a dramatic decline in Poland's population.
Although the Polish War has passed, it still shocks the world in retrospect, and its lessons are painful and profound: First, the weak countries have no diplomacy, Poland has suffered betrayal and conspiracy from Germany and the Soviet Union at the same time, and it has also suffered the ridicule of its allies Britain and France who only shouted no war, which cannot but be said to be a failure of Polish diplomacy; second, it was beaten backwards; in the war, the German army successfully carried out "blitzkrieg" for the first time, showing the power of tank corps to carry out large-depth and rapid assaults in coordination with aviation.
Strengthening one's own country is the key to protecting the country and protecting the family, the people of the country should always unite their forces to fight for a strong country, and any forces that split the country are our enemies and should be severely punished.