Most likely ASB but...

...What if Hitler (or some Fuhrer that went along as OTL up to 1939), after he'd signed the 'Molotov-Robbentrop Pact' with the Soviets, went to the later 'allies' on a top-secret mission, and then told the leaders of France, Britain and Poland about the fact that the Soviets want to invade a totally neutral country.

He passes of the fact that he signed the Pact as 'a way of proving that the Bolsheviks were scum who preyed on the weaker nations' or something to that affect.

What would happen now? Is this too ASB? Would this spark a war between the Soviets and Western Europe? And also would Poland cede the Danzig Corridor to Nazi Germany as a 'thanks' for the warning? If it did spark a war would it be a good thing for Hitler? Seeing as he wanted to destroy the Soviets and with all the Western help I bet they could get a hell of a lot further than OTL, also his economy wouldn't crumble straight away from the Danzig Corridor and also the war.
 
Very unlikely. Nobody had any readon to trust the Nazis after Munich. We weren't completely stupid and it would be apparent to us that this pact, while making clear realy Soviet aggression and lack of scruples, could only have been brought about by Germany approaches: we were, after all, in negotiations with the Soviets wherein we tarried and they were anxious to reach a concrete agreement until they started to suspect we were toyring with them and became open to German advances.

The revalation that the communists were holding their cards close would surprise... no-one, least of all the Poles, who would never give away the corridor without pressure or concession. To let German military power destroy Russia would be deeply unwise of us, as well we knew. If anything, it might make us inclined to play the two against eachother, since they'll still be antagonists after this latest Nazi betrayal.
 
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