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Germany and the Soviet Union both regarded the Polish state as a creation of the post-WW1 system, and both had claims on Polish territory. In the summer of 1939, Adolf Hitler decided to invade Poland in a fait acompli against the Allies. In a secret agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union they agreed on dividing up the Polish state and Eastern Europe.
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History of da Polaks always fascinate me,eternal respect from da Kurdish front.
WELL WELL WELL.
Poor Poland smh
Poland learned the lesson never again
Poland has its part of guilt in the war. They participated in the dismemberment of Czecho-Slovakia, who could have been an ally. Refused other regional alliances because they didn't consider the Germans to be a threat. Actually, the Poles considered their army on par with the Germans. Finally, Danzig was a German city, in which the Poles had little to no authority. It was already autonomous by the time the war started.
It should be called: westerners rewriting history
History is a lie. It took me 60 years to realise that and now the genie is out the bottle. Truth be told the Germans didn't want war with Poland just the restoration of the Danzig corridor to East Prussia and to stop the persecution of German civilians living there by Polish far-right nationists. Had Poland chose a different path and allied itself with Germany and not Britain and France then we could possibly avoided 80 years of dreadful Communist rule over Eastern Europe and the deaths of 60 million of its citizens. Read about the real history of World War II folks not the propaganda.
Ghettos in Poland 😂😂😂
Great job Germans 🤘💪🥰
Of course you left out the part where the UK financed Hitler and allowed him to build that massive military against the post WW1 agreement so it could be used as a proxy against USSR. Also the fact that Poland was the first to make a peace deal with Hitler in 1934 since their president met regularly with Hitler and Goebbels and then begged to give them part of Czechoslovakia…which was illegally invaded so funny that Poland could care less when it was someone else's country. Gotta love European fake history to cover up the warmongering and money laundering the last 100 years.