Poland: Where World War II Began - A lecture by Roger Moorhouse
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2024
- Roger Moorhouse examines Poland's fate in the opening two years of World War Two - from the signature of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in August 1939, to the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. He covers the German and Soviet invasions of Poland in September 1939 and the two brutal occupation regimes that followed. He also addresses the question of why this period is so often misunderstood in the Western narrative of the war.
This is the third episode in the Studying Poland Today talk series which purpose is to raise the level of expert knowledge about Poland in foreign countries and, in particular, to strengthen Polish Studies in the universities of the English-speaking world.
Roger Moorhouse is a historian and author specializing in modern German and Central European history, with a particular interest in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War Two in Europe.
A visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw, he is also the author of a number of books on modern German history, including "Killing Hitler", "Berlin at War", "The Third Reich in 100 Objects" and "The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941". He is a regular commentator in the specialist and general press and a consultant for film and television.
His latest book "First to Fight: The Polish War 1939" - on the September Campaign that opened World War Two in Europe - was published by Bodley Head in the UK, and Znak in Poland, in September 2019. - Zábava
Great talk. We need more research on Poland in the 1936-9 period too
Thank you for your talk about Poland. Thank you for doing this for Poland. ❤️🇵🇱
Have read his « The Devils’ Alliance » excellent study Indeed and longtime overdue. Recommended reading!
An important source. Btw, KosciuszkoTV, please correct the word "began" in the title.
KosciuszkoTV thanks you for pointing at this typographical error.
Germany had 18 Divisions, third rate, in the west 1939. The french had only to march and they would have reached the Elbe river. If they declare war on 3. Sept., why they don't march? What were they waiting for? The Germans beating Poland an come to the west? It just doesn't make any sense for me.
France took terribly high casualties in the First World War. Because of this, they had invested heavily in static defensive emplacements that compelled them to stay put behind them. Like today, neither Great Britain nor France were anxious to fight another world war.
WW2 history was written by the winners. USA and USSR. Poland was just a Soviet puppuet after the war...
Don’t want to be too pedantic but WWII began on July 7, 1937 just outside Peking en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident
It became a world war when several major powers got included. China - Japan had been fighting since 1931?
Sorry, you do not understand - the conflict between Chinese and Japanese troops didnt spread beyond Asian boundaries it even didnt spread beyond much more limited Pacific/South Eastern Asia region because neither China nor Japan were world powers unlike the British Empire, France (with its colonial; territories) and USSR - an Eurasian power... this fact turned the war into the world conflict - WW2
You are not being pedantic. There is an increasingly revised way of looking at the beginnings of the conflict and, in many ways, the Japanese invasion was a part of the spreading belligerence among nations. And the war between the two Asian nations took on a particularly vicious streak that rivalled that of the war in the east.
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You are not being illogical, plz, "spreading belligerence" isnt the same as being at war,
that is in a state of active armed conflict...
"an increasingly revised way" also doesnt mean freedom from logic because part of Asia and considerable part of the world ARE NOT the same
Then you can also say it began in 1936 with the spanish civil war. All the main actors of 39-45 were involved.