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In December 1941, a Conference was held in [[Moscow]] between the USSR and Great Britain. Stalin proposed to base post-war Polish western borders on the [[Oder-Neisse Line]] and demanded that the United Kingdom accept the pre-war western borders of the Soviet Union. [[Anthony Eden]] accepted the demand as he assumed that the border in question was the 1939 line. However, Stalin apparently meant the 1941 border with Germany. It was soon discovered, but British government decided not to change the document. On March 11, 1942, [[Winston Churchill]] notified Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski that the borders of the [[Baltic States]] and [[Romania]] were guaranteed, and that no decision was made regarding the borders of Poland.
In December 1941, a Conference was held in [[Moscow]] between the USSR and Great Britain. Stalin proposed to base post-war Polish western borders on the [[Oder-Neisse Line]] and demanded that the United Kingdom accept the pre-war western borders of the Soviet Union. [[Anthony Eden]] accepted the demand as he assumed that the border in question was the 1939 line. However, Stalin apparently meant the 1941 border with Germany. It was soon discovered, but British government decided not to change the document. On March 11, 1942, [[Winston Churchill]] notified Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski that the borders of the [[Baltic States]] and [[Romania]] were guaranteed, and that no decision was made regarding the borders of Poland.
====Warsaw ghetto uprising====
{{See also|Warsaw Ghetto Uprising}}
Beginning at 3 am on April 19, 1943, [[Nazi]] tanks and [[SS]] troops began assaulting a Jewish ghetto in Poland.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX103.html</ref> Jewish resistance fighters, totaling 700 to 750, opposed 2000 heavily armed Germans. The Jewish resistance fighters had some weapons, but no more than three light machine guns.
Waffen SS soldiers and elements of the Sicherheitsdienst sought to clear the ghetto of 60,000 Jewish residents in only three days. But the resistance fighters held off the Nazis for nearly a month, marking the first time in [[World War II]] that there was an uprising against Nazis in territory under German control. Eventually, SS forces destroyed the ghetto and its synagogue.
====Volhynia massacre====
====Volhynia massacre====