From Poland, flight was virtually impossible. The speed of the German advance trapped soldiers and civilians. In the Poznan sector, nineteen Polish divisions - virtually the same number of troops which Britain wished to have ready for action in March 1940 - were surrounded; in the ensuing battle on the River Bzura, 170,000 Polish soldiers were taken prisoner. Behind the lines, the atrocities continued. At Bedzin, on September 8, several hundred Jews were driven into a synagogue, which was then set on fire.
From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, p. 7.
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