Occupation of Poland by Nazi troops (1939)

German refugees from the Bydgoszcz area sit on the riverbank waiting to cross on September 5-6, 1939. Refugees crossing by boat.

Hot food being distributed to refugees from German field kitchens.

Women eating soup.

A man's face, half swollen from an injury.

One of the refugees eating soup.

Refugees identify captured Polish police and military personnel who took part in "Bloody Sunday" in Bydgoszcz.

One of the Volksdeutsche refugees identifies a prisoner.

The face of a prisoner.

Wehrmacht units crossing the San River on September 10, 1939. Hitler greets the passing troops.

A troop convoy enters a bridge over the San.

Hitler is surrounded by Wehrmacht soldiers and officers.

Local ethnic German residents throw flowers to passing German soldiers.

The population of a city in Polish Silesia greets German troops.

Red Army commanders and Wehrmacht officers during a meeting near Brest-Litovsk on September 22, 1939. A Wehrmacht artillery crew fires at the enemy.

An officer observes a district of Danzig through a telescope.

The battleship Schleswig-Holstein shells Danzig on September 1, 1939. Hitler drives through the streets of Danzig.

The Reichstag meeting room.

Map of the gradual formation of the Danzig "corridor" (animation).

German soldiers erect blockades of felled trees on forest roads.

Views of Danzig captured by the Germans.

Ribbentrop greets foreign diplomats.

Views of the streets of Moscow and the Moscow Kremlin in the summer of 1939. Ribbentrop says goodbye to Soviet diplomats at the airfield before departing Moscow on September 27, 1939. Ribbentrop ascends the steps.

German diplomats and the military attaché during the farewell ceremony for the Reich Minister.

Ribbentrop's plane taking off.

Ribbentrop being met at the Berlin airfield.

Ribbentrop greeting SS officers.

Ribbentrop at his car before leaving the airfield.

Articles and cartoons in European newspapers devoted to German-Soviet relations.

The movement of German troops along the roads of Poland.

Columns of Polish prisoners of war marching through the streets of the city.

Polish prisoners of war in formation in a field, faces of the prisoners of war.

The arrival of another batch of Polish prisoners of war at a German camp.

Faces of captured Polish soldiers and sailors.

A German troop convoy moves along the road, a convoy of Polish refugees stands on the oncoming shoulder.

Refugee carts loaded with belongings, people in carts.

A young man leads oxen on a rope.