Foreign policy of the Third Reich at the beginning of World War II (1939)

German residents of Polish Silesia cross to the German shore after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Silesian Germans receive hot food at a refugee collection point.

The bandaged face of a wounded man.

Men eat soup from bowls.

Residents of Silesia, after the arrival of the Germans, identify the Polish officials and police officers who harassed them.

Faces of Polish Jews herded by the Germans to a collection point.

Polish Jews working in earthworks and irrigation.

German troops crossing the San River.

Hitler greets Wehrmacht units passing along the road.

A German military convoy crosses the San.

Hitler is surrounded by German soldiers and officers.

Residents of Polish Silesia greet German troops.

A German officer shows a leaflet in Russian to a Red Army commander.

The text of the leaflet with greetings to Russian soldiers.

The building where negotiations between representatives of the Soviet and German command took place in September 1939. Red Army commanders and German officers during a conversation.

German field artillery fires at the enemy.

An officer looks through a telescope.

A view of a part of a city block through a telescope.

A German battleship fires at Polish fortifications on Westerplatte.

Hitler drives through Danzig in a car, responding to greetings.

A meeting of the Reichstag.

Map of the "Danzig Corridor." SA stormtroopers create roadblocks.

Roadblocks on forest roads and paths.

An SA stormtrooper with a rifle at the entrance to a bridge.

A view of a section of a canal in Amsterdam.

Representatives of the French and British military missions, who arrived in Moscow for negotiations in April 1939, are met at the Moscow train station.

One of the officers gets into the car.

The car with the French representatives drives away from the station.

Farewell to Ribbentrop at the airfield in Berlin.

Ribbentrop climbs the steps of the plane.

The plane's engines are started.

Ribbentrop's face in the window.

Ribbentrop's welcome at the airfield.

Ribbentrop leaves the Swiss embassy and gets into a car.

Moscow street views in the summer of 1939. Panorama of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Ribbentrop's arrival in Moscow in August 1939. An honor guard lined up at the airfield.

The commander of the honor guard reports to Ribbentrop.

Red Army soldiers of the honor guard company in formation, the faces of the Red Army soldiers.

Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR V.P. Potemkin sees Ribbentrop off at the airfield in September 1939, after the conclusion of the non-aggression pact between the USSR and Germany.

Ribbentrop climbs the steps into the plane.

German diplomats and military attachés during Ribbentrop's farewell to Berlin.

An airplane taking off.

An airplane at the airfield in Berlin.

Ribbentrop descends the gangway.

Ribbentrop greets the German Foreign Ministry staff who are meeting him.

Ribbentrop holds a bouquet of flowers near his car.

Newspaper reports in foreign newspapers about the signing of the Soviet-German treaty and cartoons of Stalin and Hitler published in newspapers.

Wehrmacht units moving along the roads of Poland.

A column of Polish prisoners of war moves along a city street.

Polish prisoners of war in formation.

The arrival of another column of Polish prisoners of war at their accommodation.

The face of a captured Polish sailor.

The faces of captured Polish soldiers.

A German troop convoy moves along the road, refugees on the opposite side of the road.

Refugee carts loaded with belongings stand along the road.

A young man leads three oxen along the road.