How would the Soviet invasion of Poland be viewed in a Nazi victory TL?

Assuming the Reich is victorious and rules an empire spanning from the Atlantic to the Volga, how would the Soviet invasion of Poland be remembered? How would the Nazis, the Soviet rump, the UK and US, the Poles in occupied Poland, and the Poles who made it abroad view the invasion? How would the deportations of ethnic Poles be remembered? Would the truth about the massacres of Polish POWs at Katyn and elsewhere ever be revealed, or would the mass killings be viewed as Nazi propaganda?
 
Der Gegenangriff nach Polen, that is, the counterattack against Poland. I've seen the term used in a Luftwaffe calendar. I thought the same language was used in the history section of Reibert (Der Dienstunterricht im Heere, Service Training for the Army), a training book for enlisted men. It's not, but the text does mention the Gleiwitz, claims that Poland was offered fair terms, and suggests that the German attack was preemptive. For some reason, the Nazis never wanted to be viewed as the aggressor even when they were -- this goes as far as the UK and France being led by warmongers who forced the cruel war on Hitler.

Oddly, Reibert shows a map with the USSR-occupied territories marked but glosses over the fact in the text. Perhaps they were waiting for the final victory in order to decide how they were going to deal with signing a non-aggression pact with the USSR that gave the Soviets half of Poland (which the Nazis could easily have taken for themselves) and then in 1941 declaring war on the USSR... so it is actually difficult to answer that aspect of the WI, without knowing how the Nazis planned to portray the M-R Pact.

The USSR, UK and US would have known the truth; I suspect the German reaction would be to label all of that as propaganda and ban discussing the topic on pain of imprisonment. Some people might know the truth, but the Nazi party line on Poland is not too difficult to accept. The US and UK would view the Soviet invasion as too little, too late -- they were able to gain something of a threshold west of their old territory, but not enough to save the USSR when Barbarossa came and succeeded. The deportation of Poles from the annexed territory might not even be known to the UK and US. The USSR would know the truth, but their voice wouldn't be very strong. Without evidence, the deportations would be treated as rumor. Members of the Polish diaspora in the surviving democracies would try to tell the real story. But post-war relations between the democracies and the Nazis would take priority over the truth.

A handful of Poles might have escaped to the West (most likely via the USSR) with news of the reality of the invasion and occupation. They would insist that there were terrible goings-on at the place the Nazis called Auschwitz, that people were being gassed by the thousands, but again, the voice of the Jewish diaspora would be weaker than the need to appease the Nazis.

Katyn would be fodder for German propaganda and Goebbels would make the most of it. It would be held up as an example before the Vereinte Nationen (the Nazi UN, ITTL) to counter any claims that Germany was needlessly cruel to POWs -- "this is how the Soviets treated their prisoners, and you expected us to follow the Geneva Convention?" The propaganda would make use of shocking photos and footage to erase any doubts.

Would the Polish government-in-exile survive? How would that be dealt with in the UK-German armistice? They would be mentioned in the armistice, I think. My guess is that their best hope is being interned for life in the UK, under something like house arrest. The worst case is they are handed over to the Nazis and their airplane mysteriously crashes into the Channel.
 
On a related topic, how would the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States and the Winter War be viewed? Since Finland would be allied to Nazi Germany (albeit somewhat reluctantly), would there be more sympathy for the Soviet perspective outside Nazi Germany and its allies?
 
On a related topic, how would the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States and the Winter War be viewed? Since Finland would be allied to Nazi Germany (albeit somewhat reluctantly), would there be more sympathy for the Soviet perspective outside Nazi Germany and its allies?

It would depend to some extent on whether the truth behind the M-R Pact was known. The citizens of the Baltic States were either Germanic or ... well, Baltic. They were not Slavs. Germany would have to claim that it had liberated the Baltic peoples without mentioning the inconvenient fact that they had permitted the USSR to invade them. Finland, too, would be lauded by the Nazis for its heroic efforts against Judeo-Bolshevism. As it frequently was with the Wehrmacht, the propaganda machine would point it out that the Finnish soldiers succeeded to the extent that they did by courage, valor and honor. I'm imagining posters of Finns in German-type uniforms and Stahlhelms with white-and-blue swastikas, with slogans like "Where the Finnish soldier stands, there he remains!"

Outside the USSR, I suspect that maintaining friendly relations with the Nazis would be more important than spreading the truth, and the surviving democracies would listen to the Nazis before they listened to the Soviets. There couldn't be too much sympathy for the Soviet perspective, since trade and diplomatic relations with Nazi Europe would be more important than relations with the rump USSR.
 
The Nazis would probably use the invasion as "proof" of Slavic inferiority ("savage Slavs fighting each other" or something along those lines). Western nations would probably regard the invasion of Poland the same way they regarded the Soviets invasion of the Baltic states or dominance of Eastern Europe postwar in OTL: as a brutal occupation an enemy power carried out against other nations that is awful, but also not something that can really be dealt with.

As for the Soviet rump, the main sentiment will likely be that it was a mistake solely because it gave the Germans the chance to lull the USSR into a false sense of security that ultimately led to the loss of its status as a great power.
 
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