112: The September Campaign Pt. 4 - Fall Weiss
History of the Second World War
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The German Invasion of Poland
In August 1939, Hitler held a meeting with Germany's military leaders to discuss plans for an invasion of Poland. The goal was to make sure that as many Polish Jews as possible were forced into the Soviet zone of control after the invasion was over. To accomplish these tasks, each of the armies would be accompanied by an Einszitzgrupp made up of Gestapo and meant from Heydrich's SD. In this episode, we look at three types of sources: Notes about the speech written at the time, accounts of the speech submitted at the Nuremberg trials, and notes taken by participants in personal correspondence at that time.
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