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Since today is the anniversary, and this question has been raised in our Weimar World thread (Weimar Republic survives to the present), here's a WI for you.

In the Weimar timeline, Germany is still a republic and Lettow-Vorbeck is president while there is a center-right government in the Reichstag. In the main timeline, we have there being a plebliscite in the Corridor and a small military action, leading to Germany gaining it.

But lets say that the Poles didn't gamble on winning such a thing, and instead under pressure from the League, withdrew from that organization. The German Republic, Czechoslovakia, the Baltics, and Finland still form an anti-Soviet (and unspoken anti-Polish) coalition for mutual defense.

The Poles in OTL had considered a preemptive war against Germany at some point.

Here, they probably have joined the Axis still. However, might they not also make a Devil's pact with the Soviets ala Molotov-Ribbentrop in OTL, leading to an invasion of the German coalition by Poland and the USSR on September 1, 1939. The deal is the the Soviets will take Finland, Estonia, Latvia, (oh, and they'll take Bessarabia while they are at it). The Poles will take Lithuania, some bits of Czechoslovakia, and whatever bits of Germany they can manage to get.

Mussolini was not in on the deal, presumably, so what does his axis do when the Poles and Soviets start their little war? The rest of the Axis in this timeline was Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria.

What will the UK and France do? I believe France stays neutral, and the British might actually go to war over this if the Soviets and Poles don't come to the negotiating table.

The Poles are going to get their lunch served to them by the Germans I believe, but I am certain there are others out there of different opinions.

And if the German counterattack takes Poland, and eventually moves into the USSR, it could be interesting. IOTL, the Nazis were at first seen as liberators by many in the Ukraine and Belarus, which they then completely threw away and became the oppressor. Here, the Germans likely WOULD be liberators, so could we see these supporting the Germans and even forming new nations?

What do y'all think? War results, aftermath, etc?
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