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- <p>The <strong>Battle of Westerplatte</strong> was one of the first battles in Germany's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland">invasion of Poland</a>, marking the start of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II">World War II</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe">Europe</a>. Beginning on 1 September 1939, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany">German</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Army_(Wehrmacht)">army</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsmarine">naval</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe">air forces</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig_Police">Danzig police</a> assaulted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland">Poland</a>'s Military Transit Depot (<i>Wojskowa Składnica Tranzytowa</i>, or <i>WST</i>) on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerplatte">Westerplatte</a> peninsula in the harbor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig">Free City of Danzig</a>. The Poles held out for seven days and repelled 13 assaults that included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dive_bomber">dive-bomber</a> attacks and naval shelling.</p>
- <p>Westerplatte's defense served as an inspiration for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Army">Polish Army</a> and people in the face of German advances elsewhere, and is still regarded as a symbol of resistance in modern Poland.</p>
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