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Old 01-26-16, 11:02 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn View Post
As Sailor Steve says : That's a statement without support. What is the source ?
From Lipski's memoirs:

"At my next meeting with Ribbentrop, on March 26, I handed my government's counterproposals for a solution of the Danzig problem in the bounds of a bilateral Polish-German agreement and suggesting the creation of a Polish-German commission in order to provide the best possible facilities for communications between the Reich and East Prussia. Ribbentrop, however, presented his case in such a manner that the German demands were to be acccpted as a whole, refusing to commit himself in any way whatsoever as to the merits of the Polish counteroffer, regarding which, in consequence, complete silence was deliberately imposed by the German government."

Józef Beck and Lipski both said at various points after this date that Poland was still willing to enter negotiations, though this was around the time Germany stopped trying to issue demands. The notion that Lipski said anything like this:

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Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn View Post
She said that if Hitler still wanted to talk about Danzig, it would be WAR between them.
requires a ridiculously selective interpretation of something that Ribbentrop said that Lipski said and ignoring everything that can possibly indicate otherwise.
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