Polish and German anti-Russian alliance

Its not as silly as it sounds.
A big reason for Poland's political isolation and its being caught out by the Germans was that they'd previously cozied up to the Germans.
So...assuming Nazis are still there what if this happened?

Don't start lecturing me on why it couldn't, I'm well aware of all that (see the thread on what i hate from a few days back), the point of this thread is to be contrarian and go for something weird.

Arrangments could well be made for good treatment of Germans in Poland (and vice-versa though there wouldn't be as many), free movement of people, etc... Danzig could be allowed a free vote of where to go- sorry Polish nationalists, logic and reason must win.
As for living space- that can be carved out of Russia. It need not matter that Poland is in the way. It wasn't exactly going to be part of 'Germany proper' anyway.

And of course its not assuming everything is good, there could always be the plan to come back for Poland later or to use the carrot rather than the stick with them.
 
Danzig could be allowed a free vote of where to go- sorry Polish nationalists, logic and reason must win.
But that's just the problem -- neither Polish nationalists nor Nazis are especially inclined to just let "logic and reason" win.
 
The problem is that Nazis (and many of other Germans too) wanted not only Danzig /Gdańsk, but also rest of the Pomerania, Silesia, and Great Poland with Posen - in short, they wanter borders from 1914. For Poles (nationalists or not) it was simply unacceptable - we're talking about milions of Poles living there, a lot of Polish investments (e.g. Gdynia) and economically vital coal mines (Siesia). Not to mention the fact Great Poland was a birthplace of Polish state.
Germany indeed tried to lure Poland into some kind of alliance, offerring compensation in Lithuania or Ukraine (Goering was supposed to say - the Black Sea is also a sea). But all that was unofficial, since Poles were still wary of Germany.
 
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