Edward Śmigły-Rydz
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Marshal Edward Śmigły-Rydz also Edward Rydz-Śmigły was a Polish politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, as well as a painter and poet.
Śmigly-Rydz among a group of officers of the Polish Legions.
Śmigły-Rydz with Marshal Józef Piłsudski during the Polish-Soviet War
Śmigly-Rydz at army inspectors' conference, 1926
Śmigły-Rydz receives Marshal's buława from President Ignacy Mościcki, Warsaw, 10 November 1936.
Invasion of Poland
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The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and
Edward Śmigły-Rydz
…of the Polish Armed Forces following Marshal Józef Piłsudski's death in 1935. Rydz served in this capacity at the start of World War II during the invasion of Poland. As the war approached, Rydz's stature began to eclipse even that of the president. The shock of the Polish defeat made objective evaluations of his…
Vyacheslav Molotov signs the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a German–Soviet non-aggression pact.
Polish Infantry
Polish PZL.37 Łoś bomber aircraft in 1939
Peking Plan: Polish destroyers evacuate the Baltic Sea en route to the United Kingdom.