Partitions of Poland: Did you mean...?

This map illustrates the situation in Europe in November 1920 in the aftermath of First World War (1914-18), as the continent was reshaped by the Treaty of Versailles (1919) and the Treaty of Sèvres (1920). The German Empire had collapsed...

A March 1943 photograph of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the leader of Nazi Germany, alongside several of his generals as they study maps of the Eastern Front during the German-Soviet War of the Second World War (1939-45). The generals are (L...

A photograph showing the damage to Warsaw following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Photograph taken in October. Imperial War Museums

A reconstruction of brick bunks at Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp which was located in German-occupied Poland. Four to seven prisoners had to sleep in each compartment. Over one million people died in this complex at the hands...

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) reviewing a victory parade in Warsaw following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Photo taken on 5 September. (Imperial War Museums)

A May 1944 photograph of women prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex in Poland which was set up by the SS to murder those identified as enemies of Nazi Germany, especially Jewish people.

An aerial view of the Auschwitz I part of the complex of labour and extermination camps in Poland known as Auschwitz. Over one million people died in this complex at the hands of the Nazi SS. Auschwitz was one of the main instruments of the...

A photograph showing a walled-off Jewish ghetto in Warsaw following the German occupation of Poland from September 1939. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing Polish troops marching to battle following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing German troops and Polish civilians following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Photograph taken in the Tuchola Forest, 4 September 1939. (Imperial War Museums)