I think the point is more that for WW2 the other nations would have just left them to it more. Maybe profit off the increased demand for materials. However, the war started because of Germany invading Poland, and you kinda need to go through Poland to get to the USSR.
Encourage the USSR to try and take all of Poland first, then attack back when they are getting close? Not sure tbh.
Poland wasn’t the first stop in that line, though, only the one that started the thing. The annexation of the Sudetenland was the first “big thing” after a series of smaller appeasements. The powers of the time recognized that Germany was absolitely unreliable. If the Nazis had framed the Polish campaign as “liberation” following a short-lived Soviet occupation… that might have worked. And may have even resulted in a Nazi/British/French alliance. It’d then come down to how much the Allies’ intelligence agencies knew about Nazi/Soviet collaboration on Poland.
I think the point is more that for WW2 the other nations would have just left them to it more. Maybe profit off the increased demand for materials. However, the war started because of Germany invading Poland, and you kinda need to go through Poland to get to the USSR.
Encourage the USSR to try and take all of Poland first, then attack back when they are getting close? Not sure tbh.
Poland wasn’t the first stop in that line, though, only the one that started the thing. The annexation of the Sudetenland was the first “big thing” after a series of smaller appeasements. The powers of the time recognized that Germany was absolitely unreliable. If the Nazis had framed the Polish campaign as “liberation” following a short-lived Soviet occupation… that might have worked. And may have even resulted in a Nazi/British/French alliance. It’d then come down to how much the Allies’ intelligence agencies knew about Nazi/Soviet collaboration on Poland.