Comparison between the National perspective and the “official” interpretation

Poland, which was attacked by the Third Reich on 1st September 1939, joined World War Two in association with France and Great Britain in the hope of help on allied countries` part. Western powers, after declaring war on Germany, on 3rd September limited their hostilities only to some local action. In a solitary clash, Poland had to succumb to enemies` great technical and numerical superiority. Polish loss in the armed conflict seemed to be much more inevitable when Poland was forced to fight on two fronts, after being attacked by Russia on 17th September. The Russian attack on the eastern boarder was a part of a `Ribbentrop-Molotow` pact. The result of a military defeat in the clash with two aggressors was the partition of Poland made in the aftermath of a treaty signed on 28th September by the Third Reich and Russia. “The treaty of a friendship and borders” established a border of mutual business along Pisa, Narwia, Bug and San rivers. The September defeat and the German and Russian occupation of Poland did not mean the end of the Polish nationhood. Poland as a country did not capitulate. Polish authorities, in the face of Russian danger , in the evening on 17th September crossed the Romanian border intending to travel to France, in order to continue the war after a lost campaign. Then, Polish nation was subjected to the strictest rigours of the German and Russian occupation. Polish armed effort towards the end of World War Two put in an active presence of 200 000 soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces in the West and 400 000 from the Polish Army in the East who were struggling in the Red Army.