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On 1 September 1939 Germany attacked Poland; on 3 September Britain and France declared war on Germany, and the British Dominions — Australia, Canada, etc. — followed suit. The Second World War had started.
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Szawłowski, R. (1991). The Polish-Soviet War of 1939. In: Sword, K. (eds) The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939–41. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21379-5_2
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