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Hatred towards the Jews was not new in Poland. Already, in 1938, with the rise of Polish militarism, antisemitism was growing stronger. It was known that here and there, windows of Jewish shops were smashed and Polish gangs would beat up Jews. Hateful signs ridiculing us appeared in the streets, claiming that “the Jew is a cheater and a thief, do not do business with him,” and the like. Many Jews were afraid to go out into the streets after dark, and you would not find a Jew in the late show at the cinema. But all of this was within the scope of general unpleasantness, not actual danger.
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Moshe Bomberg (The Last Boy in Auschwitz: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (Heroic Children of World War II))
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By the end of October, Napoleon was in retreat. He had invaded Russia with over 600,000 men. When he crossed the border into Poland, the remains of his army, which had been decimated by hunger and cold, numbered only about 30,000 men who could actually fight – barely.
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Ryan Jenkins (World War 2: New Technologies: Technologies That Affected WWII Warfare (World War 2, World War II, WW2, WWII, Technology, Weapons, Radar Book 1))
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Month after month, the Russians, bearing the brunt of war, had waited. The Anglo-American landing did not come until June 6, 1944, when the Russian army had already liberated most of the USSR and was driving across Poland. Many Russians had bitterly wondered whether the Allies delayed so that Russia might take the loss, and landed at last in Normandy because they could not afford to let Russians take Berlin alone.
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Anna Louise Strong (The Stalin era)