Event · Aktion Or Raid
German air raids on Bialystok
German aircraft bombed Bialystok after the first two weeks of war.
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... m would soon burst with explosive
impact. Jews were particularly apprehensive, for they
felt that tragedy was zeroing in on them. Hitler was
constantly threatening the Jews with destruction.
Friday, September 1, 1939, well before sunrise,
when no one yet knew of Hitler’s unexpected invasion
of Poland, Nazi airplanes were already flying over Pol-
ish cities, dropping their deadly bombs. Bialystok,
which until the war was officially in East Prussia, was
not immediately targeted for these bombing raids. The
reason was that Hitler initially launched his blitzkrieg
against the western portions of Poland. After the first
two weeks of war, when the German armies penetrated
various parts of Poland, Bialystok began enduring the
full effect of the air raids. The locations most vulnera- ...Connected nodes