If so, how could one square that logically with the British guarantee to Poland, which directed German attention west and threatened Germany with two-front war?
Indeed, how could one square that with the "shock, shock" expressed by London and Paris during the March 1939 Nazi occupation of Bohemia?
Imagine if the Polish guarantee worked & deterred the Germans from attacking Poland. How plausible could an all-out German attack on the Soviet Union, bypassing Poland and traversing the Baltics to the USSR have been?
Indeed, how could one square that with the "shock, shock" expressed by London and Paris during the March 1939 Nazi occupation of Bohemia?
Imagine if the Polish guarantee worked & deterred the Germans from attacking Poland. How plausible could an all-out German attack on the Soviet Union, bypassing Poland and traversing the Baltics to the USSR have been?