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Everyone pretty much knows how the Second World War began. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 28, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939. The demarcation line for the partition of German- and Soviet-occupied Poland was along the Bug River.
In October 1939, Germany directly annexed those former Polish territories along German's eastern border: West Prussia, Poznan, Upper Silesia, and the former Free City of Danzig. The remainder of German-occupied Poland (including the cities of Warsaw, Krakow, Radom, and Lublin) was organized as the so-called Generalgouvernement (General Government) under a civilian governor general, the Nazi party lawyer Hans Frank.

Most of the action seems to be by Nazi Germany and both Britain and France declared war against that aggressor: Germany.

But Germany was not the only aggressor as history states. Russia had invaded on the 17th and due to her involvement, Poland collapsed and surrendered and was thus partitioned by both Russia and Germany.

Yet, the declaration of war was against Germany alone. Why? Where was the war declaration against both aggressors, Russia as well as Germany?
Did Britain and France think that they couldn't handle the Soviets and the Nazis?

My question is this: what if the Allied Powers had declared war against Russia and Germany together? Could they handle them? And what of Italy and Japan? What side would they join: the Axis or the Allies?

One note: Central Europe had once been called the "Heartland". Whoever controls the Heartland, controls Eurasia, and thus the World Island, and then the World. Could a German-Russian Alliance take over the world?:confused: :D

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