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Entangled histories

5 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · DEU LEFT · POL RIGHT

1. 1772–1795

   The Partitions of Poland

   In three stages (1772, 1793, 1795) Russia, Prussia and Austria divided the Commonwealth among themselves, despite the reforming Constitution of 3 May 1791, ending Polish statehood for 123 years.

   Politics & Power · from the Poland chronicle · The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Golden Age and Decline · REFS 2 — Partitions of Poland, Constitution of 3 May 1791

2. 1 Sep 1939

   German and Soviet invasion of Poland

   Nazi Germany invaded on 1 September, starting the Second World War in Europe; the Soviet Union invaded from the east on 17 September, and the two powers again partitioned Poland.

   War & Rupture · from the Poland chronicle · The Second Republic, the Second World War and the Nazi-Soviet Catastrophe · REFS 2 — Invasion of Poland, Fall 1939, Invasion of Poland (1939)

3. 1 Sep 1939

   Invasion of Poland

   Germany invaded Poland, igniting the Second World War in Europe and beginning six years of conquest, occupation and total war.

   War & Rupture · from the Germany chronicle · Weimar, the Third Reich and the Second World War · REFS 1 — The Holocaust and World War II: Key Dates

4. 1940–1945

   Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Holocaust on Polish soil

   Germany operated its largest concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where some 1.1 million people, overwhelmingly Jews, were murdered as part of the genocide carried out across occupied Poland.

   War & Rupture · from the Poland chronicle · The Second Republic, the Second World War and the Nazi-Soviet Catastrophe · REFS 2 — Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945), Polish Victims

5. 1 Aug 1944

   The Warsaw Uprising

   The Polish Home Army rose against the German occupiers in Warsaw; after 63 days the rising was crushed, much of the city was destroyed and tens of thousands of civilians were killed.

   War & Rupture · from the Poland chronicle · The Second Republic, the Second World War and the Nazi-Soviet Catastrophe · REFS 1 — Polish Victims