War in Poland 1939 - false myths?

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Originally posted by Andrew Morrison
Perhaps it is another of those myths but I was always lead to believe that it was the Russian attack that destroyed the Polish army.

As I understand it the Soviet troops only met limited resistance because most of the Polish Army was already busy fighting the Germans.

On 19th September German and Soviet troops met at Brest-Litovsk. By that time Warszaw was already under siege. Warszaw did however fight for another week and surrendered 27th September 1939.

Map: Red = Polish units. Black = Germans. Black and yellow = Soviet advance.

(The name Gen. Rommel at Warszaw stands for Polish GOC "Lodz" Army, LtGen Juliusz Rommel).