Case White

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German military operation codename military operation

Case White was the German codename for the 1939 invasion of Poland that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German military operation → codename → military operation →
alsoKnownAs	Fall Weiss → Fall Weiß →
belligerent	Nazi Germany → Poland →
casusBelli	German claims of Polish aggression →
commandedBy	Adolf Hitler →
commander	Fedor von Bock → Gerd von Rundstedt → Heinz Guderian → Walther von Brauchitsch →
countryOfOrigin	Nazi Germany →
endDate	1939-10-06 →
followedBy	Case Yellow → Soviet invasion of Poland →
hasCodenameLanguage	German →
hasSignificance	ended the independence of the Second Polish Republic → marked the beginning of World War II in Europe →
historicalPeriod	1930s → 1939 in military history →
implementedBy	OKH → OKW →
involvedUnit	German Army → Kriegsmarine → Luftwaffe →
justification	protection of German minorities in Poland →
location	Poland → Second Polish Republic →
militaryBranch	Wehrmacht →
objective	defeat of the Polish Armed Forces → invasion of Poland →
opponent	Poland →
opposedBy	Polish Armed Forces →
partOf	European theatre of World War II → World War II →
plannedBy	German High Command → Oberkommando des Heeres →
precededBy	German–Polish border incidents → Gleiwitz incident →
result	German victory → beginning of World War II in Europe → defeat of Poland → occupation of Poland →
startDate	1939-09-01 →
triggered	British declaration of war on Germany → French declaration of war on Germany →
usedWarfareType	Blitzkrieg →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Fall Weiss →	alsoKnownAs
Plan White →	hasAlternativeName