Jeff Simmons
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Things to be expected
With the creation of the "Polish corridor" to the sea and the separation of East Prussia from the rest of the German nation, it should have been assumed that at some point, someone in Germany would have wanted to change that bit of political geography, with Poland being the target.
Moreover, the Polish didn't have the means to build armor, planes, etc. to match the German and Russian war machines. They were sandwiched between two powers teeming to gain territory in the chess game of the late 1930s, and they didn't care what was in the way. And there certainly is no way possible that Poland could have defended two fronts at once, either. The fact that these two powers cut a deal probably limited the destruction that would have come to Poland if just one of these powers had taken it in its entirety.
I also must point out that I am of the school that Stalin cut this deal with Hitler to buy territory that would serve as a buffer between the Germans and Moscow. It may have been his smartest maneuver of the entire war.
With the creation of the "Polish corridor" to the sea and the separation of East Prussia from the rest of the German nation, it should have been assumed that at some point, someone in Germany would have wanted to change that bit of political geography, with Poland being the target.
Moreover, the Polish didn't have the means to build armor, planes, etc. to match the German and Russian war machines. They were sandwiched between two powers teeming to gain territory in the chess game of the late 1930s, and they didn't care what was in the way. And there certainly is no way possible that Poland could have defended two fronts at once, either. The fact that these two powers cut a deal probably limited the destruction that would have come to Poland if just one of these powers had taken it in its entirety.
I also must point out that I am of the school that Stalin cut this deal with Hitler to buy territory that would serve as a buffer between the Germans and Moscow. It may have been his smartest maneuver of the entire war.
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