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At this very moment, a handful (around 40) of Polish Postal Workers, armed by 6 soldiers who took rifles from the nearby armoury, are putting up a stout defense of the Danzig Post Office. Danzig'er Rail workers have just trashed the tracks upon which a German Armoured train was suposed to have moved south from Danzig. In about the next hour, Slovakian troops will seize the border outposts in the south of Poland, and move forward toward the Pole's Carpathian Army positions. A mobile formation that consisted of two battalions of combined cavalry and motorcycle recon troops along with nine motorized artillery batteries, all commanded by Gustav Malar, will push through the Nowy Sacz and Dukeilska Mountain Passes, advancing towards Debica and Tarnow in the region of southern Poland. General Georg von Küchler's Third Army has run in to Stiff resistence at the Mlawa Defense line, with three assaults today turned back, with heavy tank losses. The Polish defenders, when able to emplace their 37MM AT guns, can hurt the thin-skinned Panzer I's and II's of Kuchler's forces. Kuchler is rounding up Artillery assets from all over different Corps, for a barrage that will start at 6AM, and continue for several hours, on the left flank of this defensive line. Meanwhile, the Poles are bringing in More forces, including a Mobile Cavalry Brigade, but these find themselves threatened by German Armoured and motorized moving around the lines flanks, and are attacked by German Special Operations troops during the night, as well, leading to a breakdown in communications. Waffen-SS Motorized Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland will make it's name, beginning here, in a few short hours. The bright spot of the day for Polish forces was at Mokra. By 1700, The German 4th Panzer Division was forced back to its initial positions in Opatów and Wilkowiecko, with sizable losses, and only the 12th Schützen Regiment managed to reach the rail road crossing at Izbiska. However, upon learning that the German 1st Panzer Division had managed to take Kłobuck, to the south, the Polish forces were withdrawn overnight south-eastwards, to the village of Łobodno located north-east of Kłobuck, and then to the second line of defence, some 12 km to the east. Should I post MORE???

I was always fascinated by this assertion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Schleswig-Holstein

The Schleswig-Holstein was a German battleship that fought in both World Wars. It is said to have fired the first shots of World War II by firing at the Polish base at Westerplatte on 1 September 1939.

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Though obsolete by the outbreak of World War II she took part in some operations. At the end of August 1939, Schleswig-Holstein sailed to Danzig, under the pretext of a courtesy visit, and anchored in the channel near Westerplatte. On 1 September 1939, at 4.45 a.m. she began to fire 280mm and 170mm shells at the Polish garrison there.[1]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8225093.stm
Watching the start of World War II