Round Two

As the drive on Warsaw continued, the 4th Panzer Division, with SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Regiment attached, was given new orders to attack through the Warsaw suburbs of the Bzura sector, at the bend of the Vistula River, to seal off the western approaches to the capital, which the desperate …

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As the drive on Warsaw continued, the 4th Panzer Division, with SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Regiment attached, was given new orders to attack through the Warsaw suburbs of the Bzura sector, at the bend of the Vistula River, to seal off the western approaches to the capital, which the desperate Polish High Command was trying to keep open for reinforcements fighting their way east. Occasionally the Polish defense crystallized in localized hedgehogs that slowed and sometimes stopped the increasing momentum of the German Blitzkrieg. One such place was Sochaczew, where elements of the 17th Infantry Division were determined the German onslaught would stop there.

Sochaczew, Poland

The Battle of the Bzura was the largest battle of the 1939 German invasion of Poland, fought between 9 and 19 September 1939, between Polish and German forces. It began as a Polish counter-offensive, but the Germans outflanked the Polish forces and took all of western Poland.

German

Polish

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