The Hitler Diary Entry Series Pt 4: September 1, 1939 – German Forces Invade Poland


Disclaimer: This five-part series details events from World War II, written as diary entries in the voice of Adolf Hitler.

I made the order to invade Poland on September 1, 1939, for several reasons. The first being it has been my mission since I wrote the book “Mein Kampf” to restore Germany’s lebensraum in Eastern Europe.

The Polish Corridor and Posen regions must now return to Germany and the burdens left by the November criminals with the treaty of Versailles must be eradicated. I also wanted to bring retribution to the prosecutor Germanic folk of Poland. I knew Prime Minister Chamberlain, the sniveling coward that he is, wouldn’t interfere or lend support to Poland despite promising to do so in March of this year.

German occupation of Warsaw

On the morning of September 1, 1939, we moved forward with operation Fall Weiss, which encompassed the strategy to invade Poland in three sections with three assaults converging on the city of Warsaw.

The introduction of the new tactic the blitzkrieg was deployed initially by our military to decimate our enemy, using mobile forces and bombardment of quick bursts utilizing tightly concentrated firepower. By September 9 we were fully attacking Warsaw, and by September 30 we had the region under siege. On September 17, the Soviet Union initiated their portion of the invasion which was agreed upon in the Nazi-Soviet pact earlier in August.

In this pact, Stalin and I secretly agreed to divide Poland into giving us the is the western portion of Poland while Russia took over the eastern portion. By September 30 allied governments declared war on our great nation, but they did not provide support to Poland in resistance to us.


Theodore Eicke on the left

In addition to the war effort made by the military, I called for Himmler to deploy Theodore Eicke’s SS Totenkopfstandarten to occupy the rear operations zone with the 10th Army south of Warsaw and the other SS divisions flanked the 8th Army. I gave directive for Theodore Eicke to have complete authority of detaining portions of the Polish population as he will serve as the security and police within the region. On September 13, the SS Brandenburg commenced the racial cleansing to bring an end to the undesirables and maintain the purity of Germanic blood. This was the best way to deal with the Jewish situation in Poland. Many people were killed and arrested, those who were deemed to be insurgents, and suspicious demographics were dealt with and brutally and swiftly.

On September 22, the SS Brandenburg completed the destruction of Jewish businesses and commerce by using explosives and burning down their community, this was known as the “Jewish action.” On September 24, our two-day mission was completed with the death toll of 800 Polish civilians. In the town of Owinsk, the SS Totenkopfstandarte murdered one thousand mentally ill patients in a psychiatric hospital purifying our newly claimed lebensraum of the undesirables.

Source: Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris. WW Norton & Company, 2000.

Check out part 1: @elumni/the-hitler-diary-entry-series-pt-1-november-10th-1923-the-beer-hall-putsch

Part 2: @elumni/the-hitler-diary-entry-series-pt-2-jan-30th-1933-hitler-s-emergence-to-chancellor
Part 3: @elumni/the-hitler-diary-entry-series-pt-3-june-30th-1934-night-of-long-knives

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