Adolf Hitler meets with the Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Beck.
"... Unlike the Western leaders, Hitler had realistically evaluated the dangers posed by the Bolshevik Soviet Union. He realized that Germany would be unable resist the Soviet Union without an alliance with Poland. For this reason he signed a non-aggression treaty with Poland in 1934 .. .. Since the British guarantee of March 31, 1939, gave Poland carte blanche in its dealings with Germany, Poland intensified its persecutions of the German minority. Abductions became common, speaking German in public was proscribed, German associations and newspapers were suppressed, the German consul in Krakow was murdered, etc."Jürgen Rieger
Hitler may have wanted peace with quite many but these many would stab him in the back rather.
ReplyDeleteMy own country, which is cherished as a "neutral country" was nothing but neutral. They chose all the wrong choices to just betray Germany. Germany didn't destroy them right there and there, it was the red menace. How foolish.