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Video: 'Warsaw Surrenders - 1939 | Today In History | 27 Sep 18'

(Wednesday, September 27, 1939, 12:00 p.m. Central European Time; during the Siege of Warsaw (1939), part of the Invasion of Poland during World War II) — The city of Warsaw surrendered today to forces from Nazi Germany on the 20th day of a siege that saw the Polish capital bombed and burned “into an unspeakable inferno.”

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140,000 Polish forces were killed or captured during the siege, with another 18,000 civilians killed.

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