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Adolf Hitler made repeated attempts to form an alliance with Poland. Yet Poland consistently rejected those efforts.
He continued to believe that such an alliance would save Europe from Bolshevism. That is why he flew into a rage when he learned that Poland had accepted London’s offer instead.
He decided to destroy Poland – and to make slaves of the Polish people – for no other reason than that they had chosen London’s proposal instead of joining his alliance.
Adolf Hitler attending the memorial service of Polish First Marshall Jozef Pilsudski in Berlin, 1935.
Poland, however, had no idea that in this grand performance London had destined her to play the part of the buffer – the one meant to take the blow and bleed.
Poland’s wartime fate was sealed on 12 September 1939 at the Conference of Abbeville, where it was decided that Poland would be sacrificed in the name of higher goals.
Instead of real assistance, London flew propaganda leaflets over Germany.
It was precisely London’s reaction that led Stalin to attack Poland from the east on 17 September 1939.
And the words spoken by General Alfred Jodl during the Nuremberg Trials clearly show how deeply Poland was mistaken about her ally:
Alfred Jodl:
„If we did not suffer defeat already in 1939, it was only because some 110 French and British divisions remained completely inactive against 23 German divisions in the West during our campaign in Poland.”