This detailed report was originally published in 1942 by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a cry for help to the civilized world. At the time it was written, one million Polish Jews had already been murdered, but there were still two million Jews alive in Poland, although living in desperate conditions. This report chronicles daily life for Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland; the brutal laws and decrees, the starvation rations, the confiscation of property and deportation to the ghettos. Names of individuals killed and towns where mass executions occurred are listed, along with news of the...

TRYING TO STOP A WAR IN 1939 is a compendium of communications exchanged between the political and diplomatic representatives of Great Britain, Poland, Germany and Russia, in the year leading up to the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Originally published by the British Foreign Office as a testament to its extraordinary diplomatic efforts to rein in Hitler's territorial ambitions, this voluminous collection of speeches, communiques, cables, letters, messages and notes has been faithfully reproduced verbatim. Only explanatory headings have been added to help the reader easily find...

This previously classified military analysis of the German Invasion of Poland was conducted by the United States War Department in 1941. Included are six maps that were part of the original analysis: terrain, communications and permanent fortifications (map 1); dispositions of opposing forces on August 31 and German Plan (map 2); situation at dark on September 5 (map 3); situation at dark on September 8 (map 4); situation at dark on September 14 (map 5); and situation at dark on September 20 (map 6). The German campaign plan is reviewed as well as what was known of the Polish plan at the...