{"id":72783,"date":"2019-08-31T17:05:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T15:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=72783"},"modified":"2019-08-25T09:16:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T07:16:18","slug":"01-05-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=72783","title":{"rendered":"INVASION OF POLAND, FALL 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>INVASION OF POLAND, FALL 1939<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Hitler’s Non-Aggression Pact with Poland<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of Adolf Hitler’s first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. This move was unpopular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles. However, Hitler sought the non-aggression pact in order to neutralize the possibility of a French-Polish military alliance against Germany before Germany had a chance to rearm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Appeasement in Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the mid and late 1930s, France and especially Britain followed a foreign policy of appeasement, a policy closely associated with British prime minister Neville Chamberlain. The objective of this policy was to maintain peace in Europe by making limited concessions to German demands. In Britain, public opinion tended to favor some revision of the territorial and military provisions of the Versailles treaty. Moreover, neither Britain nor France felt militarily prepared to fight a war against Nazi Germany in 1938.<\/span>
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Britain and France essentially acquiesced to Germany’s rearmament (1935-1937), remilitarization of the Rhineland (1936), and annexation of Austria (March 1938). In September 1938, after signing away the Czech border regions, known as the Sudetenland, to Germany at the Munich conference, British and French leaders pressured France’s ally, Czechoslovakia, to yield to Germany’s demand for the incorporation of those regions. Despite Anglo-French guarantees of the integrity of rump Czechoslovakia, the Germans dismembered the Czechoslovak state in March 1939, in violation of the Munich agreement. Britain and France responded by guaranteeing the integrity of the Polish state. Hitler went on to negotiate a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union. The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which secretly stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Invasion and Partition of Poland<\/strong><\/p>\n

On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. To justify the action, Nazi propagandists falsely claimed that Poland had been planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to encircle and dismember Germany and that Poles were persecuting ethnic Germans. The SS, in collusion with the German military, staged a phony Polish attack on a German radio station. Hitler then used this action to launch a \u201cretaliatory\u201d campaign against Poland.<\/span><\/p>\n

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