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| Invasion of Poland (1939) | |||||||||
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| Part of World War II | |||||||||
 The map shows the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939 in a wider European context. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Soviet Union (After September 17, see details) |  Poland | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Semyon Timoshenko(Ukrainian Front) | Edward Rydz-Śmigły | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
Germany: Total: 1,500,000 Germans, 466,516 Soviets, 51,306 Slovaks Grand total: 2,000,000+ | Poland: 39 divisions (some of them were never fully mobilized and concentrated), 16 brigades, 4,300 guns, 880 tanks, 400 aircraft Total: 950,000[Note 1] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Germany:[Note 2] USSR:[Note 3] 1,475 killed or missing, 2,383 wounded | Poland:[Note 4] 66,000 dead, 133,700 wounded, 694,000 captured | ||||||||
The Invasion of Poland in 1939 was a military offensive in which Nazi Germany and, two weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded Poland. That was the start of World War II in Europe.
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