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With the conclusion of the 1938 Munich agreement there was a collective sigh of relief from both Germany and Britain and France, but now Adolf Hitler had his eye on Poland which contained the small League of Nations mandate or "Free City" Danzig and other territories that contained small German minorities. Great Britain and France had a defence pact with the Polish which obligated them to the defence of the Central European power. By July 1939 plans had been devised for a invasion and to merge East Prussia a province that was virtually landlocked by the Danzig corridor parallel to Polish border. This worried some generals most notably Ludwig Beck, and others who feared his jingoistic rhetoric would led Germany into an necessary war. Poland who had existed under years of humiliation from their Russian and Prussian masters were not about to candidly hand over their only access to the Baltic sea, Hitler dispatched Joachim von Ribbentrop to Moscow to negotiate with his once loathed enemy, the Soviet Union. Upon landing in Stalin's Russia an agreement was hatched out that Poland (if invaded) would be divided between the two powers and the Baltic states for the time being would be under Soviet administration giving Stalin a free hand to do so. The United Kingdom and France though horrified began likewise to secretly prepare for hostilities. However Hitler was unaware that a plot was being hatched in the highest echelons of the Whemacts command structure, and would very nearly bring down the Nazi behemoth.

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