The invasion of Poland in 1939 marked the beginning of World War II. A swift and devastating attack that set the world on a path to global conflict.

World How the 1939 Soviet invasion sealed Poland’s fate in WWII — and changed the world forever The Soviets had a well-ordered plan for Poland: to deepen the fault lines of ethnicity.

Poland loses the war in 20 minutes. I walk, a refugee. It is summer and the heat is terrible. We don't know where we are going. Thousands with no place to go. Who will take us?