12 September 1939
Battle of Bzura
Attempts to attack the German Eighth Army in the flank
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Bzura in Poland. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Attempts to attack the German Eighth Army in the flank
Defeated during the German invasion of Poland. 19 Polish Divisions are encircled in the 1st pocket of the war, 170,000 captured
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