Adolf Hitler

the horrible storm 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- ...