Would a Deep Defense Around Warsaw Have Helped Poland at All?

If the Poles in 1939 had done a deep defense around Warsaw, rather than a linear defense of the entire frontier, a very bad idea with a superior foe, would that have helped in any way? I'm not necessarily talking about winning, that might be impossible, but simply managing to conduct a longer and more effective defense. Or was the blitzkrieg simply unstoppable?
 
It was terrible for Poland on all counts because the Polish Corridor and the entirety of western Poland - the part Germany'd be invading - was the industrial and commercial centre. It was imperative Poland make a strong attempt to defend such areas, which was of course pointless when Germany's military was much stronger in comparison.
 

NoMommsen

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... as you asked :
IMO the "blitzkrieg" atm was unstoppable at least for poland, building up a deep defense around Warsaw might even have speeded the german victory :
- no posznan pocket
- no Narew group
both could/would leads to earlier encirclement.
And then the army would just need to sit by and watch the Luftwaffe to bomb The polish troops as well as Warsaw into oblivion.

... such an outcome might/could have had some consequences for the further conduct of WW II :

  • germany being in a stronger position vis a vis Molotov/Stalin during their "final" settlement for their spheres of influence, still leaving Lithunia to the germans and keeping Poland east of the Vistula (why giving away what you fully posses already) with heavy impact on invasion into russia later (admitting : rather low possibility)
  • the allies being much more freightend of being bombed themself in watching in reality a mayor city bombed to dust (not only thought of by that time) as well as troops
  • faster redeploymend of troops to the west
 
Activating the juridically still valid Polish-Romanian defensive alliance from 1st of September, while pulling back towards the Romanian border and digging in to the "Romanian Bridgehead" line would have been their best shot to keep the war going. Even if Romania refuses to declare war on Germany, Stalin might have wait a bit longer, allowing the Poles to create a new defensive line to hilly and swampy terrain behind riverlines, far away from German prewar supply depots and air bases.

Naturally abandoning virtually the whole country without a fight in such a fashion is politically impossible for Polish leadership, but it would certainly make things harder for the Germans and would cause significant butterflies further down the road.
 
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