Tag #142837 - Interview #78247 (Adolf Landsman)

In accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact there was a division of the territory. The Baltic countries joined the USSR [see Occupation of the Baltic Republics] [29]. On 1st September 1939, Hitler's troops invaded Poland [see Invasion of Poland] [30]. On 18th September our troops went to Poland [Editor's note: The Soviet invasion lasted from 17th to 28th September] and after that Western Belarus and Western Ukraine were joined to the USSR [see Annexation of Eastern Poland] [31].