After the defeat of Germany in World War I, it was forced to cede large tracts of land, and Danzig was transferred to Poland and turned into a free city, the "Polish Corridor" to the Baltic Sea

Divided the previously contiguous German territory into two parts, located in the "corridor"

East Prussia, to the east, became an enclave far from the German mainland.

Therefore, the Germans have always been wary of the loss of Danzig and the "corridor"

The region is haunted.

After coming to power, Sitara vowed to avenge this arrow, and he rearmament at great speed, turning Germany from a humiliated victim of the Treaty of Versailles into the largest military power in Europe in just a few years, and it can be said that Germany was doomed to such a life-and-death war with Poland from the very beginning of its revival.

As a result of the well-known "policy of appeasement"

The time had finally come for the DPP's expansion to show its fangs, and under Sitara's careful planning, Germany officially kicked off its aggression, and Poland became the third casualty after Austria and Czechoslovakia (it may be doubtful whether Austria was a casualty).

When Germany occupied Czechoslovakia, Poland became the primary target in order to eliminate Poland, the main ally of Britain and France in Central Europe, to relieve the worries of attacking Western Europe, to replenish military and economic resources, and to establish an advance base for attacking Red Russia.

On March 21, the 16th year of the Alpha Trove year, Germany issued an ultimatum to Poland, demanding that Danzig (Gdansk) be ceded to the "Polish Corridor"

The construction of a road and railway was refused, but Poland refused.

On the same day, Britain and France formally formed a military alliance and gave Poland security guarantees on the 31st, which strengthened Poland's confidence.

On 3 April, the German High Command issued the Instruction on the Concerted Readiness of the Armed Forces for War.

The white plan formed in the Eagle's Nest is ready to fly.

After the First World War, due to the dissolution of the three major European empires, the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russian Empire, the ethnic minorities in their territories became independent nation-states, such as Czechoslovakia, the three small Baltic states, Finland, Yugoslavia and Poland, and the European situation formed by these countries was called the "Versailles System"

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The Second Polish Republic, with a population of about 27 million and a territory of 388,000 square kilometers (the sixth largest in Europe), was one of the largest countries in Eastern Europe.

Although Britain and France were traditional allies, fighting side by side in World War I against Germany and in the Russian Civil War, they responded differently to Poland's demands.

In order to maintain the balance of power in Europe, Britain was unwilling to weaken Germany too much and make France too strong, so Poland refused to ask for help in the 20s.

Britain believed that Poland was an ally of France and had no interest in Britain itself.

Lloyd's?

George did not even know where the Polish territory of Silesia was, and once said: "The Polish people have never in the course of history shown themselves to be capable of maintaining a lasting independence." ”

Such a big truth.

Foreign Minister Austin?

Sir Neville Chamberlain also stated in February 1925: "No British government would and would never sacrifice the life of a British grenadier in order to protect the Polish corridor." ”

This was the last statement of Chamberlain, who advocated appeasement.

France, on the other hand, was an ally of Poland and hoped that the latter would replace Russia, so it always sided with the German-Polish territorial question.

On the other hand, however, the relationship between France and Poland was not reciprocal, and France sometimes harmed Polish interests for its own purposes, and Poland's foreign policy was largely constrained by it.

In other words, if France turned its back on Poland, the latter would lose its only strong ally on the continent and would be left militarily isolated.

Other small states on the European continent, such as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, formed the so-called "Little Entente"

Poland also wanted to join its alliance in the process of seeking allies from its neighbors, but was rejected by the Czech Republic, so it held a grudge.

The two countries instigated conflict between the minorities in their own territories, with the Czech Republic inciting the Ukrainians in Poland and Poland encouraging the Czech Slovaks to oppose the Czechs.

Of the Polish territory, only Romania maintained good relations with it, and in March 1921 a treaty of alliance was signed to deal with the Russian threat.

Although the treaty expired in 1939, Romania still played an important role in the subsequent exodus of Polish government soldiers and refugees.

After the First World War, the German Empire was defeated and forced to accept the Treaty of Versailles of the Entente powers, giving up a large number of territories in the east that had historically belonged to Poland, and after the collapse of the Russian Empire, after the establishment of Red Russia, Poland took this opportunity to become independent and had a Polish-Russian war with the latter, as a result of which Poland turned the tide in the Battle of Warsaw, making it impossible for Red Russia to annex it.

While containing Russia, China also gave Germany a lot of help, so the relationship between Germany and Red Russia has been lukewarm, but in the face of Poland, which is weak in the second place, the choice of the two carnivorous behemoths does not seem to need to be explained at all.

During this period, Germany's dislike of Poland was even greater than that of Britain and France, due to the fact that Britain's attitude towards Germany had shifted to a more defensive and morale-depressed situation, so it was not easy to start a new war, and at the end of World War I, Germany had only lost the two provinces of Alsace-Lorraine to France, which had changed hands many times in history, and it was difficult to determine its national composition, but in the case of Poland, Germany not only wanted to restore its territory in 1772. It was also necessary to lose Silesia, an important industrial coal-producing area (as punishment for defeat), and to cede Danzig, a purely German city, and to the "corridor area"

Given to Poland (more than 95 of the city are German-speaking), nominally became an independent "Libreville"

, which separated mainland Germany from East Prussia, severely restricted the development of the latter.

After the end of the war, Germany lost a total of 13 and 12 people during the imperial period, of which Poland accounted for a very high proportion.

Born in East Prussia, Seckert hated Poland even more, saying: "Poland's existence is intolerable, irreconcilable with the needs of Germany itself, and Poland must perish, and will perish." and instilled in the army the belief in the "destruction of Poland", which was later accepted by high-ranking officials in Berlin, such as Joseph Vo, Chancellor of the Weimar Republic? Josephirth had blatantly stated that "Poland must be punished", and British Prime Minister George? GeLloyd also once said: "Poland is given too much, and it will cause big trouble later." "From June 1925 onwards, Germany began a tariff war against Poland and promoted revanchism and separatism against the German diaspora within its borders. Because of the painful experience of being beaten by China in turn from the Eastern Front, the Red Russia could only focus on the west with a plundering eye, and the Slavs' greed for land was almost innate. Red Russia, having annexed the Caspian territories of Ukraine and Turkey, also tried to attack Poland, but was defeated by Pilsudski's Polish army. The relationship between Red Russia and Poland at the end of the war was also conceivably tense, especially the signing of the Treaty of Raballo, which made the latter feel a great threat, believing that the German and Russian teams might launch a huge clamp-shaped offensive against Warsaw in the future. In fact, however, Red Russia was busy drawing nourishment from the economically depressed Europe and the United States, devoting itself to economic development, and did not want conflicts in international affairs, so it adopted peaceful diplomacy with foreign countries. Poland offered to have nothing to do with its territory other than to maintain its existing borders under the Treaty of Riga, and was unable to afford to deal with the Red Russia, which, despite its dissatisfaction with the current borders, was willing to renew relations with it. In June 1922, Poland signed the Treaty of Friendship between Poland and Red Russia, and diplomatic relations improved to a certain extent, but there was still considerable distrust between the two countries, from the military leadership to the ordinary people. In September 1926, the Red Russia submitted a draft non-aggression pact to the Polish Foreign Minister, and Poland agreed, and the Red Russia signed the same treaty with the three small Baltic states, and the Red Russia also agreed. However, negotiations between the two countries were stalled due to territorial issues, and the Red Russians believed that Lithuania should have the Vilno province under Polish territory, which Poland considered a violation of the Treaty of Riga, and relations between the two countries deteriorated rapidly, and in June 1927, the Red Russian ambassador was assassinated by Belarusian nationals in Poland. It was not until 1929, when Red Russia and Poland signed the Treaty of Briand-Kellogg, and the two sides agreed not to use war as a tool for the implementation of national policy, that Polish-Russian relations thawed. But this changed in the early morning of September of the sixteenth year of the first century, when a Polish border policeman went to work at the border checkpoint carrying bread and vegetable soup, and this peaceful day seemed to come to an end, and perhaps today some oil and water could be collected from the hands of the Germans so that the days would be a little more comfortable, lest the mother-in-law should always harass her ears like a gadfly. But today's border checkpoint seems to be particularly quiet, although there is a layer of mist, but the buzzing noise of people waiting to pass through the border in the past has not come. At this time, a figure appeared from the gradually fading fog, it was a German ** officer wearing an iron-gray uniform. The officer walked up to him, and after a standing salute, he said very politely, "For the safety of your life, I sincerely recommend that you surrender to the German Imperial Army." At the same time, he stretched out his hand, as if to accept something from him. The Polish policeman's children's shoes that stammered but couldn't ask a question were completely blindfolded, what is the situation? Completely irrational, the policeman handed the bread and lunch box in his hand to the officer, who was crying and laughing, had to hand them to the guards behind him, and then personally bent down and unfastened the rifle from the belt of the Polish policeman, and then motioned to the policeman, who had been completely petrified, to give way. In the face of the German tanks and armored vehicles rumbling in front of him, as well as the Opel trucks dragging cannons, it was like a military parade for him alone, but these steel guys were definitely not crossing the border to Poland, which means that although there were no gunshots, the war had broken out at this moment. Realizing that he was the first Polish prisoner of war to be surrendered, he turned his head in shame to Tie Liu, who was no longer showing off his might, and the young German gendarme, almost the same age as his son, standing beside him, smiled at him, showing two rows of snow-white teeth. This book is from/book/html/29/29227/