Bloody Sunday (1939)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Bloody Sunday (German: Bromberger Blutsonntag; Polish: Krwawa niedziela) is the term used to describe a series of killings that took place at the beginning of World War II. On September 3, 1939, two days after the beginning of the German invasion of Poland, highly controversial killings occurred in and around Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg), a Polish city with a sizable German minority. The number of casualties and other details of the incident are disputed among historians. The Nazis exploited the deaths as grounds for a massacre of Polish inhabitants after the Wehrmacht captured the town.