battle of Tannenberg, Tannenberg - a battle in World War I (1914); decisive German victory over the Russians

Auschwitz - a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II

European country, European nation - countries occupying the European continent

Preussen, Prussia - a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland; "in the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states"

capital of Poland, Warsaw, Warszawa - the capital and largest city of Poland; located in central Poland

Bromberg, Bydgoszcz - an industrial city and river port in northern Poland

Cracow, Krakau, Krakow - an industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula

Danzig, Gdansk - a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century

Lodz - a large city of central Poland

Lublin - an industrial city of eastern Poland

Breslau, Wroclaw - a city in southwestern Poland on the Oder

Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians - a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area

Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

Oder, Oder River - a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea

Vistula, Vistula River - a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea

Pole - a native or inhabitant of Poland