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Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn
I mean war against Germany of course.
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After Germany invaded Poland, I don't see why not.
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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
Dealing with the Polish corridor, again you have to look to the Treaty of Versailles. There was really no precedent for carving out territory which had been part of Prussia/Germany for 150 years.
Even the Weimar republic refused to recognize the eastern frontier:
The Polish government also did not help by adopting blatant anti-german policies:
which led to an exodus of German refugees back to Germany proper:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish...of_World_War_I
as many scholars have pointed out before, the Treaty of Versailles did not secure "peace in our time", it only sowed the seeds to an even bigger conflict. |
The Polish Corridor was part of Polish-Lithuanian territory before it was annexed by Prussia in the late 18th century, it had a majority Polish population which steadily grew in the interwar period and was important to the Polish economy. Certainly its incorporation into Poland was one of many harsh terms the Treaty of Versailles inflicted on Germany, but I don't think it lacked precedent or somehow justified the German invasion, which wasn't interested solely in securing it to begin with.
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Originally Posted by Joefour
I see that you just ignore Mr. Suvarov's article without addressing it. Isn't he a russian scholar?
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Suvorov was a Soviet officer and turned into a historian after his defection. There are many problems with his arguments that the Soviet Union was immediately threatening to invade Germany, mostly relating to how the state of the Red Army at the time was utterly inadequate for this sort of operation, but sticking to the subject seems to be strictly maintained in this thread.