[Homer_J_Simpson]

A key to the map symbols is on my profile.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

08/09/1939: Polish defenders of the Westerplatte at Danzig surrender after a week of continuous bombardment. The Polish government leaves Warsaw for Lublin, while its forces surrounded at Radom face a hopeless situation.

http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/war-in-europe/eastern-europe/eastern-europe-index-1939.htm

At Bedzin, 200 Jews are burned alive in a synagogue by the Germans who charge Poles with the crime, and then execute 30 of them in a public square.

http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/the-holocaust/the-holocaust-index-1939.htm

[GeronL]

The French invade Germany.

Charge of the Loafer Brigade.

French armies take stroll and picnic in Germany as the Westerplatte heroes finally fall ...

[henkster]

The map in the NY Times is rather close to your actual posted map, Homer. Only one problem: the Times map reflects the situation as it existed three or four days ago. By now, it’s much worse and the news is starting to reflect it. I suspect most people now realize that Poland is a lost cause.

As for the Germans shifting divisions west? Nah...don’t think so. Not yet. But they will. Just give them time.

And the French offensive in the Saar? We discussed that yesterday. All BS.

By the way, the area of “combat operations” for the French were also fought over by the US 3rd and 7th Armies in late November/early December 1944, and again after Operation Nordwind in January and February 1945. Suffice to say that the Americans had a more difficult time clearing out the French Maginot Line forts than they did clearing the so-called “Siegfried Line.” And that was considering that the French forts faced the other way.

[henkster]

Oh yeah, I forgot. The Poles claim 45 divisions still intact? I don’t think they ever mobilized 45. And by this time the number of intact operational divisions in the field is probably fewer than 15.

Apparently Baghdad Bob has a Polish great-uncle.