As his second in command The Prince had Marshal Repnin, one-time Ambassador to Poland.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

It was a matter of principle with Churchill, since Britain had declared war in behalf of Poland.

Any free elections that were to be held in Poland would have to produce a government in which Moscow had complete confidence, and all pressure from the West for free voting by anti-Soviet elements in Poland would be met by restrictions on voting by these elements.

With justified bitterness the author speaks of `` what seems to me to have been an inexcusable body of ignorance about the nature of the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States ''.

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

In the summer of 1214, Andrew had a meeting with Grand Duke Leszek I of Poland and they agreed that they would divide the Principality of Halych between Hungary and Poland.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, which by 2010 had seen 29 million visitors — 1, 300, 000 annually — pass through the iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, Arbeit macht frei (" work makes free ").

Six weeks before the German invasion of Poland, Heschel left Warsaw for London with the help of Julian Morgenstern, president of Hebrew Union College, who had been working to obtain visas for Jewish scholars in Europe.

The attempts by Konrad of Masovia to subdue the Prussian lands had picked long-term and intense border quarrels, whereby the Polish lands of Masovia, Cuyavia and even Greater Poland became subject to continuous Prussian raids.

Although Jews had lived in Poland since before the reign of King Casimir, he allowed them to settle in Poland in great numbers and protected them as people of the king.

By 1991 the communist governments of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania, all of which had been imposed after World War II, were brought down as revolution swept Eastern Europe.

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

Chairman Pehr Svinhufvud and Jalmar Castrén had to travel through Estonia, Poland, Germany and Sweden to reach White Finland.

The GDR had an area of 107, 771 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 41, 610 mi < sup > 2 </ sup >), bordering Czechoslovakia to the south, West Germany to the south and west, Poland to the east, and the Baltic Sea to the north.

The Commonwealth also had larger subdivisions known as prowincja, one of which was named Greater Poland.

During his reign, Poland suffered much humiliation at the hands of her subject principality, Moldavia.

During these wars the Finns suffered 90, 000 casualties and inflicted severe casualties on the Russians ( 120, 000 dead in the Winter War and 200, 000 in the Continuation War ) compared to other nations such as Poland.

In 972 Poland suffered the attack of Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark.

Others have bounced back considerably beyond that threshold however ( e. g., Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia ), and some, such as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, underwent an economic boom ( see Baltic Tiger ), although all have suffered from the 2009 recession.

In 1919 – 1921 the Red Army was also involved in the Polish-Soviet war, in which it reached central Poland in 1920, but then suffered a defeat there, which put an end to the war.

Heimkehrs introduction explicitly states that hundreds of thousands of Germans in Poland suffered as the characters in the film did.

The textile industry suffered during the 1820s while adjusting to the Industrial Revolution and an import ban by the Russian Empire ; The city's economy began to recover after many clothiers immigrated to Congress Poland.

" Michael Schudrich, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, said the use of the Nazi swastika by vandals was anti-Polish as well as anti-Semitic, and that " Non-Jewish Poles also suffered horribly under the Nazis ... the vast majority of Poles are appalled by what ’ s just happened.

He engaged in warfare against both Denmark, Russia and Poland, but suffered periods of insanity in 1567.

For nations that suffered huge losses such as the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Germany and Yugoslavia, our sources can give us only the total estimated population loss caused by the war and a rough estimate of the breakdown of deaths caused by military activity, crimes against humanity and war related famine.

Germany defeated Poland 2 – 0 but suffered an ignominious 1 – 2 defeat to Croatia, compounded by a red card for Bastian Schweinsteiger for an aggressive off-the-ball incident.

Roughly 15 million ethnic Germans suffered terrible hardships in the years 1944 to 1947 during the flight and expulsion from the eastern German territories, what had been Nazi-occupied Poland, and Czechoslovakia ( the Sudetenland ).

The Mongols did not send their main army to the Kingdom of Poland, Bohemia and Silesia, and only Moravia suffered devastation at their hands.

Schellenberg, as " Hauptmann Schämmel " claimed the German High Command was concerned about high losses suffered during the invasion of Poland and intended to have Chancellor Adolf Hitler deposed from power.

Handicapped by internal division, limited resources, heavy surveillance, and persecution of revolutionary cells in Poland, the Polish national movement suffered numerous losses.

" Poland also suffered setbacks due to sabotage and delays in deliveries of war supplies, when workers in Czechoslovakia and Germany refused to transit such materials to Poland.

They suffered heavy losses during the Invasion of Poland, often being the only armoured fighting vehicles available.

In the next 100 years the economy of Poland suffered a decline, which also affected the city.

In the 18th century the situation in eastern Poland was stabilized and the town started to slowly recover from the damages suffered during The Deluge and the Khmelnytsky's uprising.

In the 13th century, Lesser Poland suffered from several Mongol raids ( see Mongol invasion of Poland ), in which Słomniki was also destroyed.

In the doubles she suffered a first round shock defeat but found great success in the French Open mixed doubles where she and Bhupathi won the crown by defeating Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico and Klaudia Jans-Ignacik of Poland 7-6 ( 7 / 3 ), 6-1 in the final on 7 June 2012.

The earlier wave of Jewish immigration from Germany, the latter ( post 1880 ) came from " the Pale "-the region of Eastern Poland, Russia and the Ukraine where Jews had suffered so under the Czars.