BlondieBC
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Does poland just give in to german demands without british and french support. Give up a corridor thru the corridor and danzig. A fight to the death means total defeat.
Good chance.
Does poland just give in to german demands without british and french support. Give up a corridor thru the corridor and danzig. A fight to the death means total defeat.
Does poland just give in to german demands without british and french support. Give up a corridor thru the corridor and danzig. A fight to the death means total defeat.
They don't have any allies at this point. The only reason the Poles fought in the first place was that they believed Britain and France would be coming to their aid any day. Unfortunately with the Ribbentrop/Molotov pact Poland knows it has no chance barring a miracle of stopping Germany. A deal of some kind would be its only (slim) hope for survival.
It might be quite sensible for the UK and France to not declare war, whilst at the same time making it very clear to Hitler that if he goes West, he'll have a problem. Either Hitler does not go to war, or he attacks Stalin, the two evil dictators are far too busy fighting each other to attack anyone else, and Britain and France can sell weapons to both sides and stab Hitler in the back if he is clearly losing. The end result of that is yes, Eastern Europe still falls to Stalin, but all the Jewish people west, north and south of Germany are safe, France is not occupied, and the UK doesn't grow hugely weak and owe lots of money to America. There are two dangers to that though-one, Hitler gets nukes first (unlikely due to his anti-semetism ) or two, Hitler beats the USSR and still has enough troops to come West in a case of victory disease. But assuming the USA still makes nukes in 1945 even Hitler would not be mad enough to get his Reich nuked, and perhaps a Cold War ensues-that or Hitler goes West and gets nuked.
Meanwhile in Germany without large-scale war German economy goes down. People begin to be frustrated with Nazi government.