Warsaw

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to J. Stalin about German aerial bombardments of cities and military and civil targets on Polish territory

2 September 1939

Russian State Archive of Contemporary History

Coll. 3, ser. 50, fold. 410, ff. 5–8.

Original

Ruins of a residential building after the bombing of Warsaw

Praga district of Warsaw. [September 1939]

Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents

Ser. 1, album 4040, № 2.

Photograph

Agreement between representatives of the Soviet and German commands about withdrawing Wehrmacht divisions to the West and transferring occupied territories to Red Army divisions

21 September 1939

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 4, ser. 19, fold. 22, ff. 65–67.

Original

Capitulation of Warsaw: a Polish parlimentaire meets with a representative of the German command

[28 September 1939]

Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents

Ser. 3, album 199, № 4.

Photograph

Secret supplementary protocol on amending the Soviet-German agreements of 23 August 1939 concerning the demarcation of the territorial spheres of interests of Germany and the USSR

28 September 1939

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 3а, ser. 1, box 18, fold. 243.

Original

Heads of Districts of the General-Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region. Left to right: L. Fischer (Warsaw District), F. Schmidt (Lublin District), O. von Wächter (Cracow District), and K. Lasch (Radom District)

14 November 1939

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 1511k, ser. 3, fold. 37, f. 8.

Photograph

Excerpt from the transcript of a conversation between Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Great Britain I. Maisky and British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs R. Butler on 22 February 1940 about the peaceful settlement of the Soviet-Finnish conflict and the conditions for attaining peace between the two countries

10 March 1940

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 06, ser. 2, box 11, fold. 106, ff. 5–24.

Original

Excerpt from the diary of Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov: transcript of a conversation with German Ambassador to the USSR F. von der Schulenburg about the German invasion of Denmark and Norway, rumours of Anglo-Soviet trade talks, and current issues in Soviet-German relations

9 April 1940

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 299, ff. 45–50.

Certified copy

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army B. Shaposhnikov to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party about the basic principles of the strategic deployment of the Soviet Armed Forces in the West and East in 1940 and 1941

[July 1940]

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 16а, ser. 2951, fold. 239, ff. 1–37.

Original

Cipher telegram from Berlin to the 5th Red Army Directorate about the attitude of foreign military attachés to the transfer of German troops from West to East, the interest of Germans in Eastern Europe, and their possible actions against the USSR and Great Britain (with an attached note from the 5th Red Army Directorate)

11 July 1940

Russian State Military Archive

coll. 37977, ser. 1, fold. 693, ff. 85–93.

Cipher telegram – certified copy, note – original