On the 1st September 1939, at 4:45, German tanks crossed the Polish border. The Second World War has just begun. The balance of power is uneven. Although the Polish and German infantry are equal in number, 39 divisions against 40, infantrymen are no longer the primary weapon as was the case during World War II. The German generals have understood, including Heinz Guderian, which advocates armour. The Germans commit 14 or similar armoured divisions.
Opposite Poles have to defend 11 cavalry brigades, almost all on horseback. Certainly, they have about 900 tanks, but small sizes, except armoured 95 7TPjw type that can bear comparison with German tanks, but their number is far too low. Rest aviation: one side more than 2 000 aircraft of all types, the other about a thousand, most of archaic design without great power. The price of these differences, the Poles will pay cash and this will be their freedom.
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The Poles have more than 2500 kilometres of borders with Nazi Germany, how to cover a surface such and such a territory effectively? The general Rydz-Rydz, Commander in Chief of the Polish armed, watch hesitantly its device lacks depth, it has no reserve against attack. The German army is divided into two bodies: Army Group A, South, led by Rundstedt and includes the 5th Army, the 10th and the 14th General List.
Army Group B in the north is controlled by Bock, and can count on the III E and IV e Army. Weather is part of the blue sky and clear and the Polish soil is firm. All the ingredients for the assault. The attack is lightning,