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Editor says, what if Poland went pre-emptive in 1935 asks Stan Brin? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1935, Polish forces crossed the German frontier in Poleranian and Silesia, and reached the Oder and Neisse rivers within a week. East Prussia was occupied within four days.
War Against Hitler by Stan Brin"This is a war against Hitler", Polish radio declared, "not against Germany. We will withdraw the moment that Hitler and his henchmen are in our hands" . Ten days after the outbreak of the war, Polish troops captured Frankfurt and spread across eastern Germany, virtually unopposed. Everywhere they went, they hanged captured nazi party members.
French troops stationed in the Rhineland swept into Saxony and southern Germany. French and Polish forces met at the Elbe on March 1. Two days later, Hitler, Himmler, Goering, and the rest of the nazi leadership arrived at the Swiss border seeking asylem. After threats from the French, the Swiss returned Hitler and his party to German territory.
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~ I entirely agree with myself!
~ Now the questions are A) How much Warsaw and Paris think they can get away with keeping and B) if the Jews will be blamed for the whole mess if the former two get punitive.
~ I find it hard to believe that wobbly Poland could have mounted a blitzkrieg-in-reverse against even the Nazi Germany of 1935, even with French help--and just what would have motivated the French to help, anyway, when they sat on their hands in our history until 1939?
~ I have to agree with Eric. Very interesting idea. Even though Germany in 1935 was not as strong as it would be in 1939, the German military would had to have been in a collective come in order for this to come to pass.
~ I did a much longer version of this for CTT. As written this one doesn't quite work
~ About the only way this would work would be if the German military leadership more-or-less lay down on the job. Even then, it'd be an awfully iffy thing; a lot of Germans might not have _liked_ Hitler, but they'd mostly be damned before they let the Poles have him.
~ The Versailles Treaty gave Poland an army of 100,000 men, no more, and no aircraft. Yes, the Poles and the French (who occupied the Rhineland, could have defeated that force. It would not have been a "blitzkrieg-in-reverse" as Eric Lipps calls it -- few tanks -- but it would have been planned and executed by the great Marshal Józef Piłsudski, just before his death. He could have done it. I refer you to the "Miracle of Warsaw" of 1920.
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