History of Poland -- World War II 1939-1945

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Propositions of topics: (I wish wikipedia would allow anchors)

links to:

Timeline

Most important events

September campaign 1939

summary here, details would go into:

Polish Army in France

Polish army on West

Underground forces

  • History of AK and other movements

Polish Army on East

Liberating Poland

Aftermath

expelling the Germans, operation Vistula, communist terror, civil war, pogroms, trials of AK, fabrication of documents and "proofs" that AK collaborated with Germans, expelling Poles from Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania...

Losses

percentage of intelligentsia killed etc.

  • Fate of Poles
  • Poles vs Jews.


Famous battles and events where Polish forces took part

Documents and events related (maybe mentioned elsewhere in article too)

  • Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
  • Enigma
  • Polish minedetector (yes, there was such one, one of the best at its time)
  • Hitler's plan for Poles (citations, realisation)
  • Polish contribution to World War II <- summary of facts (fourth allied force in 1945, Enigma, in Battle of Britain, Narvik, Tobruk, mine detector, V-2, sabotage, ....)

Most known atrocities during WWII

Wawer, belzec, majdanek, stutthof, lambianowice,

Myths about Poles in World War II

Charging tanks, polish mine detector, short spetember campaign, airplanes destroyed on ground during september campaign, no quislings, ak collaborating with germans etc - some separate articles maybe (the more important) other just sentence or two.