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Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn

So, World War II could have been avoided. If Poland would have not rejected all Hitler's negociation proposals, then war against Poland would never have taken place. But even after the German troops entered in Poland, peace was still possible, and the Britain and French politicians knew that : Hitler has always been ready for peaceful solutions.

Hitler wanted peace for Europe.

Obersalzberg Speech August 22, 1939

Poland will be depopulated and settled with Germans. My pact with the Poles was merely conceived of as a gaining of time.


— Adolf Hitler

http://teach.yauger.net/apworld/unit...ersalzberg.pdf

Special Prosecution Book-Poland

Nearly two years before the invasion of the Second Polish Republic, between 1937 and 1939, the Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen was being secretly prepared in Germany. It was compiled by the “Zentralstelle IIP Polen” (Central Unit IIP-Poland) unit of the Geheime Staatspolizei or Gestapo ("Secret State Police") with help from the German minority living in pre-war Poland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specia...on_Book-Poland

Operation Tannenberg

Operation Tannenberg (German: Unternehmen Tannenberg) was a codename for one of the extermination actions by Nazi Germany that was directed at the Polish nationals during the opening stages of World War II in Europe

The shootings were conducted with the use of a proscription lists (Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen), compiled by the Gestapo in the span of two years before the 1939 attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tannenberg

Intelligenzaktion

Intelligenzaktion , intelligentsia action, was a highly secretive genocidal action of Nazi Germany against Polish elites (primarily intelligentsia; teachers, doctors, priests, community leaders etc.) in the early stages of World War II.

Once more the Führer must point out that the Poles can only have one master, and that is the German; two masters cannot and must not exist side by side; therefore all representatives of the Polish intelligentsia should be eliminated [umbringen]. This sounds harsh, but such are the laws of life.

— Adolf Hitler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intell...on#cite_note-9