WI: Poland partitioned but not annexed

Jonjo

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What if Nazi Germany creates a western Polish puppet state and the Soviets created an eastern Polish puppet state rather than just outright annexing Poland altogether between eachother? would of this been more acceptable to the allies? would it create a buffer zone between Germany and the SU so maybe they may never come to blows (yes I also doubt that too).
 
This would be just as unacceptable. The western allies would see these states as irrelevant fictions. It's not as if the allies considered the establishment of "independent" Slovakia, Bohemia-Moravia, and Croatia out of former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia victories for self-determination. Germany and the USSR would still "come to blows" because Hitler always intended this.
 
It would have been hard to find any significant group of Poles actually willing to collaborate with Germans. Sure, Polish nationalists detested Jews and communists, but they weren' exactly fond of Germans either. Anyway, everybody would know that Western Poland is simply a German puppet and its population only waits for a good moment to put a knife into German back. Germans would never be able to trust them.
In eastern Poland I'm not sure if Poles would be to biggest national group - I think Ukrainians might be more numerous. Therefore making it a "Polish Soviet Socialist Republic" would be absurd - especially since a significant part of Poles in those territories were "enemies of the working class" - members of the middle class, landowners, businessmen, soldiers and administration. Such people couldn't count on lonmg life in USSR. Had Poland been divided according to first version of the Soviet-German pact (with the boprder on the line of Vistula, more or less), that would be different.
Western/Eastern Poland as a buffor state between USSR and Germany wouldn't work either, - both Polands would be puppets, with significant numbers of German/Soviet troops occupying them. Situation would be more or less the same as with actual annexation. Not to mention the fact that the Nazis weanted their Lebensraum, and Poland was not enough for them.
 
Not impossible, but would only happen if Germany believed that France and Britain wouldn't declare war on Germany if they made Poland a puppet and only annexed the Danzig so it would take the French and British continuing appeasement (somewhat difficult, but sadly not impossible) and in such a scenario there likely wouldn't be a RM pact so no actual partition would be likely in such a scenario and Germany and the Soviet Union go to war in 1940.
 
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