 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Munguva yekupinda kweGermany muPoland, iyo yakatanga Hondo Yenyika II, Einsatzgruppe III yakapinda mutaundi musi waSeptember 6-7, 1939, kuti iite mhosva dzakasiyana-siyana pamusoro pevaPoland. Munguva yebasa reGermany rakatevera rakagoverwa zvakananga kuNazi Germany, uye rakagoverwa mukati mepurovhinzi ichangobva kuumbwa yeReichsgau Wartheland. Vazhinji vevagari vokuPoland vakadzingwa. Germany yakashandisa musasa wevasungwa vehondo weStalag XXI-A muzvivako zvakasiyana-siyana muguta rose kubva muna September 1939. Pakutanga vasungwa 12 000 vokuPoland vehondo uye vanhuwo zvavo vakasungwa mumusasa wacho. Uyewo vaFranciscans vaibva kuNiepokalanów vakachengetwa imomo, kubatanidza Maximilian Kolbe, uyo akazourayiwa mumusasa wevasungwa weAuschwitz uye zvino anoonekwa somutsvene weChechi yeKaturike. Kubvira muna 1940 vasungwa vehondo vokuPoland, vokuFrance nevokuEngland vakachengetwa mumusasa wacho uye muna 1942wo vaYugoslav. Muna 1943 musasa wakachinjwa kuva Oflag XXI-C nokuda kwe1 130 maofficial eNorway, asiwo nokuda kweDutch, Italian, Serbian neSoviet POWs. VaGermany vakashandisawo jeri reNazi mutaundi racho kubva muna 1942 kusvika muna 1944. Nguva pfupi vasati vadzokera shure, pana January 20, 1945, vaGermany vakauraya vaPoland 14 mutaundi racho, uye zuva rakatevera racho mauto eSoviet akatora taundi racho, iro rakadzorerwa kuPoland. 