The First World War (1914-1918) brought defeat to the three powers that had occupied Poland divided by 123 years. While Germany and Austria left defeated at war's end in 1918, in Russia the Bolshevik Revolution plunges the country into a bloody civil war since 1917. In November 1918, after more than a century of slavery, finally Poland regains its independence. The newly created Second Polish Republic now finds itself in conflict with the German Weimar Republic (1918-1919), the People's Republic of Ukraine (1919-1919) and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1919 to 1921).

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Polish insurgents in 1918 - They use uniform Germans however containing colors that help to recognize them as Polish with white and red colors on their collars, sleeves and ribbons on his chest. Part of accessories and weapons were of German origin as fieldcap (with the Polish loop), the helmet stahlhelm model 1916, the Gewehr 98 rifle, hand grenades Stielhandgranate M15, and the machine gun MG 1908/15.