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Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn
Yes, that was after Poland showed herself that she was Germany's ennemy by refusing any negotiations. Hitler's proposals were not affected Poland's vital interests. If Hitler had went further in Poland after she accepted his proposals, then yes, the Allied could protest, and help Poland at the front to defend herself against this unjustified attack.
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Unless I've missed something completely, no actual
negotiations were attempted by Germany. Germany asked for the annexation of Danzig and the construction of the extraterritorial Berlin-Königsberg highway and railway for a few months in late 1938 and early 1939, then demanded it outright. Danzig was seen by the Polish as important to its access to the Baltic sea at the time, for reasons I've already outlined earlier. They also didn't want to give up their territory for Germany's East Prussian highway and railway, though Józef Beck said in a speech given in May, 1939 that they would be willing to grant Germany more travel concessions through the Corridor. Of course, they had more reasons than these: Germany was completely untrustworthy by the time these demands were issued, because of its treatment of Czechoslovakia, and Poland gained nothing from accepting them. Of course, this is irrelevant. Poland was under no obligation to prove its justice to Hitler or surrender anything he'd like them to.
Meanwhile, the annexation of Danzig, which at the time was literally ruled by the Nazi party, and the construction of a road going through the Polish Corridor were so completely irrelevant to Germany's vital interests that the notion that they justified war, and the complete occupation of the country by both Germany and the Soviet Union, is ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn
But as Hitler would NOT have went further, Britain and France were no more able to declare war. But britain and french warmongers wanted it !
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The evidence says otherwise.