Chapter 955: Blitz Poland

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Heydrich once again ordered his secret army to be on guard. At about 4 p.m., the telephone rang sharply in the hotel room where Nayokos was staying in Grewitz.

Nauyox hurriedly grabbed the shortened words, and a short sentence came from it: "Please call back!" And he said no more.

Nauyox called the phone from Adjutant Heydrich's office again, and heard the voice of the man just now: "Grandmother has died!" A few words reached his ears, and Nauyox immediately ordered his men to assemble and agree with them to take a car to occupy the radio station at 7:45. At this time, Müller's side also started the car, preparing to transport the death row prisoners.

At 8 o'clock, the post office box worker Foich saw five men rushing into the radio room, rushing to the broadcast studio, and asked in horror: "Is there anything wrong with the gentlemen?" ”

Before he could finish speaking, a gun was pointed at his chest. After a while, the rest of the staff were also subdued. After being tied up, it was thrown into the basement.

It took a great deal of effort for Nayokos to interrupt the ongoing broadcast. He pulled out his speech in Polish and read it aloud.

He believed that Poland's war cries and insults against Germany would have the intended effect. Four minutes later, the team left the radio, leaving behind a death row prisoner they had received from Müller at the door.

At the same time, in two other places, disguised Polish troops and partisans also launched an "offensive" against the Germans. It looks like it's all the same.

The train carrying the troops reads: Go to Poland and beat the Jews!

The German people were shocked, international public opinion was in an uproar, and Nazi Germany became a victim, and this was the best effect that Hitler wanted. The victims had the right to resist, and the German team rushed into Polish territory in search of justice.

While tanks were crushing Polish land, when the SS was killing unarmed frontier people, the Third Reich kicked in all its propaganda machines.

On September 1, 1939, the People's Observer newspaper published a headline headline: "Polish mob crosses the border to invade Germany."

The report said that the Gjunwitz incident "was clearly and unequivocally the signal of a full-scale invasion of German territory by Polish partisans." The newspaper "Black Regiment" reported: "The detachments of security inspectors on duty in the border area rose up to meet the intruders - and the fighting continues so far. ”

Foreign Minister Ribbentrop told the French ambassador that Polish troops had invaded German territory from 3 areas. Goering, for his part, told the Swedish peace broker, Dallus: "The war broke out because the Poles attacked Radio Grewitz. ”

Müller, head of the Central Criminal Police, and his colleague Nabi also led a criminal investigation team9 to conduct a criminal investigation into the truth about the alleged Polish invasion.

On August 31, Germany issued a sixteen-point proposal for the Polish government to consider; These sixteen recommendations are for record purposes only. Hitler announced that it had been rejected before the proposal could be sent to Warsaw, and he tried to use this deception to justify the onslaught on Poland that had taken place at this time.

A few minutes later, for the first time, the Poles tasted the greatest sudden death and destruction from the sky in human history. Thousands of artillery pieces rang out on the border, and shells rained down on the Polish positions.

German bomber groups roared towards Polish territory, targeting Polish troops, arsenals, airfields, railways, roads, and bridges. The powerful Luftwaffe was not only the largest in Europe in terms of numbers, but also far ahead of the rest of Europe in terms of combat aircraft performance.

In the first operation, the Nazi army threw more than 2,000 planes into air raids on 21 airfields in Poland, and more than 500 Polish first-line planes were blown up by German bombers at their own airfields before they could take off; A handful of Polish planes that took off in the smoke and flames heroically rushed into the sky, causing the enemy to pay a certain price, but there was no way to return to the sky, and in less than 48 hours, the Polish Air Force was destroyed. …,

At the same time as the German fascists bombed the airfields, they also intensively attacked the strategic centers, transportation hubs and command structures of Poland with a large number of bombers. Because most of the Polish troops were deployed in the border areas and had few troops in depth, they were ignorant of the German army's use of a large number of aviation units to carry out lightning-like air attacks on key areas in depth, and there were no preparations for air defense, and countless artillery, automobiles, and other baggage were destroyed before they could retreat, and the troops fell into chaos.

There was no ground threat from the German planes, they were free to fly around and bomb wherever they wanted. Many pilots even dropped a bomb like a firecracker on a holiday, hurriedly returned to the ship to reload, and took off to bomb the next target!

Numerous factories, schools, shops, barracks were blown up in Poland, and fires broke out in more than 30 cities and towns. Nearly 1 million soldiers who responded to the general mobilization order were blocked on the railway, countless people were killed, and more civilians were displaced and left homeless.

At 4:17 a.m. on 1 September, the battleship Schleswig-Holstein, anchored in the port of Danze, opened heavy fire with its main guns at the Westerplaat munitions depot on the shores of Danzig Bay in Poland.

By the time the Polish defenders were awakened from their slumber by the sound of violent explosions, German special forces had already swarmed from the narrow strip of land connecting Westerplatte to the rest of Danzig. The flames of war were reflected in the sea, 28 minutes before the invasion of Poland by German ground forces.

The Baltic surface ships and submarines, commanded by Vice Admiral Bonzinf of the Polish Navy, were responsible for the defense of the three regions of Herze, Grenia, and Danzig. He commanded a mixed force of about 20,000 men, which was deployed in and around the Haear Peninsula and Gdynia.

For more than a month, the rumbling of artillery continued, and the smoke of gunfire filled the once peaceful sea.

Eighteen German bombers destroyed the Polish naval air base Puk, destroying the facilities and all the seaplanes on the base. Under the attack of the Luftwaffe, all the ships of the Gdynia naval base and the Haier base were evacuated to the sea, and only the old gunboats Mazur and Nurek remained in Gdynia, supporting the Polish garrison in the Danzig area with their five 75-mm guns. Between the tree-shaded sand dunes along the shores of the Black Ear Peninsula, the artillery under the command of General Zozev took an advantageous firing position, camouflaged by foliage and protected by reinforced concrete fortifications, a key part of the Zozev line.

Ranging in caliber from 75 mm to 152 mm, the guns were capable of sinking any warship smaller than a cruiser and inflicting heavy damage on ships with a larger displacement. Poland expected these artillery positions to keep the German ships out of the Parker Sea, to defend Gdynia and to cover mine-laying operations.

Danzig, on the other hand, was largely an undefended city, with a garrison of less than 300 soldiers, sailors, and armed postal workers. Westerplat is stationed with 182 troops, with the rest scattered at strategic points such as post offices and railway stations. A narrow strip of land controlled the port of Danzig and was garrisoned by Major Sakask, the commander of the quartermaster's depot. It was only before the war that the defenders urgently built a number of bomb shelters and machine-gun bunkers made of large wooden masonry, and Sakask had only a few 75mm guns and 81mm mortars in his hands. Warsaw did not expect much from these hundreds of soldiers, and they allowed Sakask to surrender with dignity after several hours of "symbolic resistance".

The defenders of Westerplater, however, put up a heroic resistance, repelling two successive German attacks.

About 1 hour later, along the 1,750-mile-long German-Polish border, the loud rumbling of German tanks resounded in the sky, and under the cover of the Luftwaffe's heavy artillery fire on the Polish airfields and key points, the German ground forces launched an offensive on all fronts from the north, west, and southwest, and the German army, led by armored forces and motorized troops, quickly broke through the Polish defense line, and in the north: the 1st Army of the 3rd Army under the command of Lieutenant General Quchler and the Uedrig Army entered the Polish border from East Prussia, His 21st Corps advanced southwestwards into Polish depth, directly penetrating the "Modlin" Army Group under the command of General Psezimiski-Krukovic; Admiral Kruger's 4th Army rushed from Pomerania in 3 routes to Poland defending the "German-Polish Corridor" under the command of General Botnowski. …,

In the south: the 10th Army of the German General Reichenau, with 5 corps: General Hort's 15th Motorized Army, General Schwidler's 4th Infantry Corps, General Hoppler's 16th Panzer Corps, General Libber's 11th Infantry Corps, and General Wietersha's 14th Motorized Army, which followed later, broke through the defense line of General Rumel's "Lodz" group in Poland and attacked in the direction of Warsaw, its left flank was the advancing 8th Army of General Blaskovic, and the 8th Army Corps was under the 13th and 10th armies. As well as the SS motorized division, which protected the entire Army Group South from the north, its right flank was Admiral Lister's 14th Army, which launched an attack on the direction of the Polish Army "Krakow" under the command of General Schilling and the "Poznan" Army under the command of General Kutesheba, the 14th Army consisting of General Boucher's 8th Army, General Kinnitz's 17th Army, General Kleist's 22nd Panzer Army, and General Bell's 18th Mountain Army!

The German army's more than 3,800 tanks, with the cooperation of other arms, were overwhelming and unstoppable, with hordes of fighters and bombers whizzing overhead, conducting reconnaissance and raids, spreading fire and creating fear, and the 1.5 million troops in motor vehicles commanded and coordinated their actions through a telecommunications system composed of intricate radio, telephone, and telegraph networks. A brand new battle mode known as "Blitzkrieg". The Polish army was completely in a passive position.

The Polish leaders had expected the war to unfold as slowly as usual, with the Germans first advancing with light infantry and then with heavy artillery.

As long as the Polish army carried out a resolute counterattack, it could achieve the victory that the Poles imagined!

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