How Germany and Russia Conquered Europe Together - World War II
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📚Main sources and further reading:
🕊️John Charmley, Chamberlain and the Lost Peace: amzn.to/3QxWvAO
🫣Tim Bouverie, Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War: amzn.to/3y4oaTH
🪖Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II: amzn.to/3JPe9MS
🎖️James Holland, The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The War in the West: amzn.to/3WsGIr5
❓Norrin M. Ripsman and Jack S. Levy, Wishful Thinking or Buying Time? The Logic of British Appeasement in the 1930s: www.jstor.org/...
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💬Learn about World War II, The Invasion of Poland (Fall Weiss), the invasion of Scandinavia (Weserubung) and the humanities at large with CallMeEzekiel in this fun and informative video presented in the Polandball/Countryball style.
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📚Main sources and further reading:
🕊John Charmley, Chamberlain and the Lost Peace: amzn.to/3QxWvAO
🫣Tim Bouverie, Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War: amzn.to/3y4oaTH
🪖Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II: amzn.to/3JPe9MS
🎖James Holland, The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The War in the West: amzn.to/3WsGIr5
❓Norrin M. Ripsman and Jack S. Levy, Wishful Thinking or Buying Time? The Logic of British Appeasement in the 1930s: www.jstor.org/stable/40207135
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Bro seems like u dont even know the news, there are letters leaked out of the vatican secret chambers with proof that german nazis and communism ist jkust a product of freemansonry and those freemansons are just puppets of a religious sect called CHABAD LUBAVITSCH. google picitures like "Chabadlubavitsch + Putin" or other big names.
They brag about it that all big presidents are "CHABADNIKS". another proof is that JoE Rogan invited ALEXANDER DUGIN into his show, which is more then UNUSUAL to do so.
3:12 is this just a state of Lithuania or the flag is wrong?
firstly, I am already subscribed, secondly, you missed, thirdly, you owe me a new fridge.
Did you know the blue in Polands flag represents reliable allies?
Funny because, well just look at it
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Yes I have realized
Poor Poland
That's why they made the NATO flag all blue then... 🤔
Polish command: All units need to evacuate from Poland
Major Hubal: the fuck we will
I'm sorry you didn't get enough recognition for this. This made me laugh my ass off 😂😂
@@micahjoo9879 this is the most recognition i ve ever got, im happy with it, and im happy to make you laugh
"Oh, you were expecting us to be mechanized? Yeah..sorry, we just have horses and meth"
The Finns only had skis and meth...
@@colbunkmustand a bunch of captured shit
Little jealous ngl
@@colbunkmust probably why they were hanging out so much
So you're just methanized? Must have been a typo confusion.
"This is not peace, this is merely an armistice for 20 years."
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch, signing the treaty of Versailles 1919.
Germany: *declares war on Poland in September 1939*
Me: He was so right.
"We shall have to fight another war again in 25 years time, and at three times the cost"
-David Lloyd George, Prime minister of Britian, speaking of Versailles.
Thanks mindless and unscrupulous pacifism.
@@mp40submachinegun81 *Insert Primo Victoria*
The irony is that he wanted the treaty to be harsher
@@jacobhamblin4255 While most historians agree that ww2 might not have happened if the treaty was more lenient due to it creating the political climate where hitler took power. if versailles was harsher and enforced it couldn't have happened either. There were multiple points where the germans were nowhere near prepared, that if the brits and french got off their asses would have very much put a stop to hitlers ambitions.
It‘s truly astonishing how much luck the Nazis had. They were incompetent, their plans and goals were obviously crazy, and on paper the deck was stacked against them from the moment Hitler first got into politics. That they even managed to make it to 1945 is quite a miracle.
I mean the Soviets had to be idiots, France had to do exactly what Germany planned for, practically anything else and the war with France would have been a failure, Britain and France were still weak, didn’t help Poland at all, France after the encirclement got heavy defeatism and soon surrendered, and then Soviets were idiots again.
@@kylezdancewicz7346 also the Head of German Intelligence was a resistance member and literally handed over German war plans to the Allies both for the invasion of Poland and later France, but they didn't believe him.
Then there is the issue of Hitler surviving countless attempts on his life that could have led to an early end of the war.
@@Barwasser TBH his early death would mean that Nazi German would still exist today.
Ironically things go exactly the way for world to end better place.
@@kylezdancewicz7346how were soviets idiots? USSR at that time was pretty much in political isolation thanks to british efforts, all soviet attempts to intervene against Hitler and create a collective security in Europe were sabotaged by Entente, who thought they could use nazis to fight communism. In the end the Soviet-German agreement was supposed to postpone the coming war for another couple of year giving the Red Army time to finish it's reorganization and re-equipment. But Hitler bit the bullet and decided to go against common sense of not fighting a two-front war and caught everyone off guard once again.
yeah, declaring war on literally the ENTIRE WORLD wasn't gonna work without a pinch of luck :D Luckily (as a German), it ran out eventually (to any Americans in the comments: make sure you don't vote for your own Adoplh at home, learn from the others)
Ah yes the greatest ally of Germany until 1941
The uk and france were germanys greatest ally until 1939 lmao?
@@8-bitstream379 Idk, feels different when one sides just being a push over appeaser and the Soviets signed pacts with them, designed tanks with them oh and who could forget INVADING a sovereign country with them.
Just sayin lmao?
@@8-bitstream379 Who did they invade together?
@@8-bitstream379 I mean, appeasement sure as hell made them seem like germany's greatest allies
@@susangoaway Munich Pact 1938
It's still mind boggling how the war could have been over by 1941, had France and Britain just.... walked forward.
Well, no, France's army was still very incapable, as was Britain's. The Allied push into the Rhine would just allow the Soviets to nab more stuff and the Germans to have to prioritize beating the shit out of France. I doubt the Vichy government would be formed in such a TL. Italy might also be pressured into entering the war against France.
What? how? we had nowhere near the military power that capable of taken on Germany in 1941. At start of the war UK didn't have a sub machine gun. They were using rifles from ww1. The UK was in a massive mess after ww1.
The war would have been over in 1944, Japan still here.
And it could have been over quicker if the Soviets didn’t let the Germans walk over Europe and let them prepare for, idk, one of their main goals of the war.
@EricDillingham the french could possible have done a larger Rhine offensive but I don't think it would have won the war.
@@kylezdancewicz7346 The Soviets needed the time much more than the reich did.
3:09 as a Lithuanian, I can tell that’s not our flag at the time: someone flipped the green and the yellow colours (Yellow at the top, green in the middle and red at the bottom is the correct one)
He’s just using the general flag of whichever country is mentioned. You can see that Canada also has the incorrect flag for the time, as in ww2 they used the red ensign
@@MaximGionet makes sense
@@MaximGionet The “general flag” of Lithuania is still the yellow top, green middle, and red bottom flag mentioned by xenamorphwinner7931. Since 1918, Lithuania used the yellow, green, and red flag, at least when they weren’t under N*zi and Soviet rule. The only thing that changed from 1918 to the modern day is the ratio of the flag, being 2:3 from 1918-1940, 1:2 from 1988-2004, and then 3:5 from 2004 to present.
@@fished3047iu 34:38 k
Ah yes, Ethiopia
I respect Ismet Pasha because of this. Guy hold up as neutral while being completely surrounded by fighting parties for almost the entire conflict and hold up the turkish straits and chromium mines during this time.
Ireland: I have the worst neighbor ever!
Poland: Hold my vodka.
Our vodka
Poland itself isn't a good neighbor either.
There are no good neighbours in europe
@@kindlingking True
Whats crazy is that in Russia to this day, they don't consider the combined Nazi and Soviet attack on Poland the start of WWII. In fact, they start counting not in 1939 (when they attacked), but in 1941, when operation Barbarossa started and don't call it WWII, but the Great Fatherland War or something similarly self centered. They try to erase not just Ukrainian, but also Polish history from the books. Don't let them do it
The Great Patriotic War
Great blunder, that was offset by allied lendlease, that was also erased from history there
WW2 and the Great Patriotic war are simply different terms with the latter being applied to the Eastern Front. What's more is Ukrainians also used the term.
@@iskanderrg Its a pathetic bot trying to rewrite history because russia bad. Prolly mad his grandpa was UPA and the NKVD hunted him down like a dog.
@@iskanderrg thats 100% true, my point was more that in Russia (I don't know about Ukraine), they dont consider themselves part of WWII until the Great Patriotic War starts. Which ignores their involvement in the invasion of Poland
4:12 Don't worry, I'm subscribed, so the bullet missed me and hit my mom
She should have subbed
Yes 😁
I have a lot of knowledge about Nazi occupied Poland, but not Soviet occupied Poland
Nobody expected for this war to last for 50 years for Poland.
It lasted 7 years. The Poles were governing themselves. The soviets didn't intervene militarily when Poland declared independence.
@@8-bitstream379the soviets didn’t intervene because Wałęsa negotiated a Russian withdrawal with Boris Yeltsin. And eternal peace be to Gorbachev for letting the western holding of the Soviet Empire go.
@rathisuhh4198 it speak volumes when one realizes that Gorbachev is quite widely loathed within russia these days.
@prfwrx2497 he was widely loathed pretty soon after the collapse of the ussr. When standards of living tanked post collapse. And most of the population hasn't recovered.
Before the Dark times Before The Empire...
How did my father die?
"A weapon from a more civilized time."
- Norwegian commander talking about his Austro-Hungarian Torpedos
And thus begins the story of why Poland in 2024 hovers its finger over article 5
As a Pole, let me tell you that this goes way farther back than WWII.
@@Nordbon1523 I mean, you don't have a national anthem that's basically titled 'We're not quite dead yet!' unless you've come pretty close a few times.
So nato sucks?
@@Nordbon1523goes back to 1795??
@@traceytraced even farther than that.
I can't believe how tankies have 4D chess mindgamed themselves into believing that the USSR was somehow against the Nazis "from the beginning".
Stalin had several opportunities to deny or delay the Germans from achieving their strategic goals (even accounting for realpolitik), not pressuring the Allies to negotiate peace, not proving port to that tanker for Norway's invasion, not providing raw material, not providing tank and aircraft experts, etcetera.
well, its easy to put all the blame on soviets even though everyone had a similar share in this problem. Soviets were in part against the Nazis, just look at what was happening when Germany cleansed the Socialists in Germany. Soviets signed an alliance pact with France (1935) that was undermined by the west, Poland didn't let Soviets get into Czechslovakia. Also, Soviets didn't have good trading partners and they were isolated from the world and were in need of money which was a factor into trading more with Germany which had a similar faith. They were partners by circumstances and not cause they liked each other. Stalin also probably had a grudge for the allied intervention during the civil war.
So, in conclusion they were in some degree against the Germans before the war. Stalin, on the other hand, could have been more aggressive against Germany, but decided to be opportunistic due to various reasons.
Radicals as rule of thumb are ideological purity zealots incapable/unwilling of self critique.
Yeah, you got tankies like Hakim who try to justify it by saying, “but Stalin had to do it to create a buffer state and by time for Soviet rearmament” or whatever bs he spews.
@@ryanelliott71698well what can you yap against that? Stalin indeed wanted the war to happen later
@ryanelliott71698 that's not what hakim said in his "There was no Hitler-Stalin pact" video. Also what is your definition of a tankie by the way? Is it someone who defends the soviet union at all?
0:05 why dose he say it so wholesome!?!😂
The fact that America is pretty much related to almost all nations is AMAZING, BUT WILD.
Cause it’s a land filled with Europeans with different accents who just revolted and got independence
@@traceytraced Yep, then Black get forced to come from all of africa, and then asians come over
It’s almost like the richest and most industrialized country in the world is going to be everywhere
Funny part is that I thought of America being almost like this. BOY, DID I HAD THE RIGHT IDEA.
@@CeleenasArtPresents7777 did you just reply to yourself 2 months after your original comment?
Hmmm... it seems Putin 'forgot' about that part at his interview with Tucker. :P
He claimed it to be saving of slavs 😂
While ignoring soviet Union sending rescources such as grain until operation barbarossa for example
What about Munich Agreement? Or that is forgotten to please of ignorance?
@@funtecstudiovideos4102 "sending" implies it was free, it really wasnt. USSR had to establish a non aggresion pact with Germany because the western powers always shut down the USSR's offers of an aliance in order to stop Hitler.
@@wyvernah Fun fact: in 1939 Poland had non aggression pacts signed with both Nazi Germany AND Soviet Union at the same time. And they both betrayed Poland by breaking it in September
@@wyvernah”the western allies didn’t want to work with me so I was forced to invade Poland, Finland, the Baltic states, and steal Bessarabia from Romania”
Not enough time to smoke brisket on account of the rain
The sinking of the Blücher is actually quite a cool story, the commander at the fort should have fired a warning shot first (another ship had already done so, but he didn't know that). However, he decided that whoever was sailing a warship into the Oslo Fjord was there to invade Norway, and he wouldn't risk giving them time to respond, so he ordered accurate fire onto the ship. I've also heard that the people at the fort didn't know whether they were firing at a British or a German ship until they heard the panicked shouting coming from the ship as it got lit up.
i hate myself for knowing these damn sound effects by heart
Fun fact: Tonga was first country(from my info) to respond on German aggresion of Poland and was able tp buy 2/3 Spitfire planes
This is what people who are nostalgic for a "Multipolar World with Spheres of Influences" want again.
They dont realise that shit doesnt taste better when you have two turds to choose from instead of one
More Poles = More Wars
The last time we had a "multi polar world with spheres of influence" it ended in two world wars and a long cold war during which many died as a result of the clashing ideologies.
Unipolar order is also unfortunately very dangerous if it is ruled from one center. It's called the New World Order. It is especially against the Bible (see Revelation of John) and traditionalism.
So this is why Africa should remain a european colony?
Commies are gonna love this one
The problem is the commies arent actually going to watch this.
as a Polish person the intro went pretty hard
Ezekiel ready to throw hands over subs is a greater demonstration of his values than 99% of youtubers.
That intro WAS FANTASTIC
The quality here is astonishing for a youtuber so small!
Man the tankies are gonna be mad if they learn how to read a history book
Their here doing the standard “oh, but they weren’t as bad” and “they needed time to rearm” and pretending that they did literally nothing wrong.
And then when you point out that they could have not invaded Poland or the Baltic states, they go “but if they don’t then it would’ve been worse!” And then ignore the various Soviet atrocities and the facts they forced the states into the union.
Tankies will do anything to justify their imperialism and much like the soviets themselves are master gymnasts of the mental variety
Funny how Russia nowadays doesn't talk about this, instead they're like "waaaaah we're fighting nazis!!!! 1111!! Yap yap yap"
What is there to talk about? Do brits talk about British-Japanese agreements very often?
@@kindlingking happens. Still, wasn't as bad as when these two clown states allied together
@@schudan3617and funny clowns they were! Israel cant stop loughing to this day, those who didnt die from laughter that is.
@@schudan3617 giving out China to Japan wasn't as bad you say? Are you aware of all atrocities commited by japs in China? That's also a second time (you can sorta count Poland as the third time too) Britain sold out a country to a genocidal imperialist maniac to achieve their shortsighted political goals, yet USSR is the "literally hitler" one here?
@@kindlingkingYou mean things that never happened?
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The Norwegian king was the biggest gigachad ever
That Canada joke was gold
Can you tell me about that
@@midnightmacabre-m6t canada used the new flag, but durring the time of WW2, it had a different flag
that was the joke
From what I’ve heard the USSR and Germany both knew the peace wouldn’t last
It wouldn't last mainly because Hitler for many reasons wouldn't allow the peace between the two to last. His goal from the very beginning was to conquer Russia.
It was only an alliance for ten years, entirely a charade by Ribbentrop, who knew his nation intended to genocide Moscow before then. It is heavily fought over whether or not the Soviets intended to break it early. I personally think they did, as the intense (but ineffecient) military buildup showed. If the Germans had not done it, the Soviets likely would have. They really didn't like eachother.
@@EricDillinghamboth parties knew the war was inevitable. Its just that ussr estimated they wouldnt be ready for a war until 1942-43. But what happened happened
@@swatcccp4673 if you would read my message, i said this
31:22 Quisling was minister of Norway, not Germany. Just an honest mistake I'd say
A tear comes to my eye every time i hear "Poland is not yet lost", i just hear again and again that last radio announcement before the german capture of warsaw. The... desperation, fuck iam crying gain, wtf is wrong with me
Strongest people on earth.
In Sweden we helped dannish jews to escape nazis
My grandma father was a soilder guarding our border with Norway
yeah you also let the germans go though your country on they way to norway
@@Kringles12 i know about that and you right it still a controversal thing in history
3:16 that is NOT a Lithuanian flag...
...yellow and green are switched
3:06 Those aren't the Lithuanians, those are the Lethalanians
Also 7:55 Poland litteraly is his own grandfather😅
This is so good, subbed 🎉
9:48 the India one is accurate
Watching comments and video in first 24 hours of upload is nicest, you dont see any russian bots
Are these russian bots in the room with us?
@@8-bitstream379 not yet. The first 24h were patreon exclusive and it's only been 13h since going public.
;-)
Because author like to repeat Russian propaganda from time to time, due to sources he use.
Most of his stuff is usually fine, but you need take this into account.
"Everyone I don't like is a bot. Everything I disagree with is propaganda."
@@kindlingking You forgot to say, that we westerners, are gаys, transgenders, also we are colonies of usa. and we are also slaves! of bad capitalism
I love the moment that you point a gun at me to subscribe. It worked
I can't believe you shoot me with an ad bullet in the middle of the video
Based using Cittadini Irresistibile at the Intro. 1:00 honestly one my most favorite Hoi4 OST's from by Blood Alone.
Amazing work keep it up!
Germans on land: 😈
Germans on sea: 😅
26:39 ah yes, the Swedish port of Narvik. not like a big reason for Germany to secure Norway was said port.
I love how conveniently Twitter tankies nowadays forget that they actively aided the nazis in their conquests until they became the target
May I invite you to look up the aborted attempts by the Soviets to form an anti-Nazi alliance before the war and the Treaty of Riga of 1921?
@@jamiemcintosh3030its way easier to just believe cold war propaganda pushed down your throat when you were a child, instead of actualy learning and discovering the truth
Pretty sure tankies are a mostly western phenomena.
Same goes for actual socialists.
Nobody who experienced living in a communist shithole wants to relive that.
@@jamiemcintosh3030so of course the next logical step was to form a military alliance with the nazis after that venture failed.
Truth is that the Soviets knew that there was a war coming and tried to align themselves with either one side or the other. The allies didn’t want them since they knew that the Soviets would require heavy support to actually fight (which ended up being correct later on) and the nazis weren’t as picky.
@@jamiemcintosh3030May I invite you to look up why nobody agreed on it? (Soviets basically demanded half of Europe to be their sphare of influence straight-up)
BTW The treaty of Riga you mention saw Russia agree on border and independence of all these states they conquered
Good day. Ezekiel upload.
The war entrance scene of india killed me xDDDDDDDDDDD
There are historical issues with the video. Especially about 1939 and allied approach to Poland.
Late mobilisation wasn't only polish idea but it was mostly enforced on us by UK to not provoke Germany. We did organise one mobilisation, it had to be cancelled after british pressures and just before the war we announced another mobilisation but soldiers nor weapon didn't have time to arrive on its positions.
French did attack saarland and did stop before Zigfrid line. If they pushed further they would meet heavy defensive possitions, iirc TWO armies and luftflotte. The french thesmelf also attacked before they fully mobilised and before they finished army reform. Poladn was suppose to hold for 3 weeks to give french time for mobilisation, but Wehrmacht was already at gates of Warsaw after a week.
Both British and French DID NOT gave up on Poland and went along "we will restore you after the war" line. French started sending supplies to Poland quickly but it didnt arrive on time, britishquickly abonded idea of dropping leaflets and switched to bombs. How they seid "their first line of defence was on Rhine"
Germany wasn't planing to conquer Norway right away, nor they didn't plan to conquer Sweden. They had quite fruitful cooperation WITH Swedes and Narvik in Norway was best prot to shit iron ore to Germany.
Turkey didn't sign any alliance with west until 1945. Their position made them dangerous to both allies, axis and soviets and everyone was trying to get on the good terms with them.
Romania GAVE UP besarabia to soviets.
In 1939-40, the germans and soviets didn’t just partition Poland, they partitioned all of Eastern Europe.
Yet another wonderful masterpiece made by your channel!
Also, I was the first comment not made by ezekiel
do you have planned film about soviet ocupation on estern europe in 1945-1991 in the future?
"yo can i see the terms?"
"nuh uh"
👊😡🇬🇧
Some of the terms were actually known to all, what wasn’t known was the 4 let’s partition Europe terms
Great Video Ezekiel, as always
So... is anyone going to mention how they got the colors of the Polish flag wrong or am I missing something?
They are reversed in countryballs
32:20 “either I will be decorated or I will be court martialed. Fire!” - birger eriksen at drøbak sound
Great work 🔥🔥🔥
0:46 Long live Poland!
Hello Ezekiel. I dont have any membership or annything. But I would still like to ask if you would consider making a video about hypotetical "Munich War" between Czechoslovakia and the Reich. It is a tricky topic with many if's but I just wanted to ask.
3:10 is taht Ethiopia?
This trailer looks so cool
Did the Soviets help the Nazis early so that they could conquer Eastern Europe as heroic liberators, rather than as spreaders of revolution? All their legitimacy thereafter stemmed from slaying this monster that they had fed to begin with.
Lol what is wrong with anti communist s andd historical revisionism
One thing I’ve never seen explained is why we didn’t declare war on the soviets after they joined the invasion of Poland. Were we for Poland, or merely against hitler?
Answer is quite simple. Allies make a guarantee to protect Poland, but they secreatly informed polish goverment, that they will protect Poland only againtst Germany. From their point of view, Germany would almost certainly clash with the soviets sooner or later, so it was no need to give soviets common enemy.
neither, the US interest was weakened Europe, with communists taking half of it
I got shot while going to subscribe 4:29
Нет Молотов!
Great video. Only discrepancy I noticed was Operation Wilfrid being ignored, and the other violations of Norwegian neutrality by the Royal Navy that encouraged the funny mustache man to go the northern route.
9:47 The fkin Indian music, I'm ded 💀
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i knew josiah was behind it all!
i aint subbin cuz i took ur gun buddy boy
Your "shame what has to happen now" for subscriptions was perfectly timed to go to an ad.
Well, the thing is that France and the UK didn't betray Poland or allow the Germans to conquer it. The Polish campaign was practically resolved in two weeks, and by that time France hadn't even finished its mobilization. Germany had air superiority, a bigger army, and its own western fortification line, while the British army in France numbered only four divisions (five in December). By the time war started, sitting and waiting was the correct strategy for the Allies, as their combined economies were bigger than Germany's, so in time they would have the upper hand.
Still considering that both GB and France pressured Poland NOT to relent in the Question of Danzig and the western parts of east-prussia, you'd say that they basicly threw them into the Lion's cage and then went: 'Oh... damn lasted less long than we thought...'
And dont forget: Their original war goal was to prevent Poland from falling prey to a totalitarian, inhuman regieme... only to leave it in the Soviet Sphere of influence XD
@@MajorCoolD Polish goverment at the time was lead by proud hot-headed men, and they decided to resist even before Allies were informed about that ultimatum. After they saw what had happened to Czechoslovakia, i think they realized that this is the choice beetwen "stand and fight" or "slowly give away all land and sovereignty", and they choose the first option.
You're right, I wasn't precise. I meant they didn't betray Poland in '39, but ultimately they did throw polish under the bus.
Babe wake up there is new Ezekiel's Video Release
Title very unaccurate it should says the Soviets not the Russians
the soviets were russian hegemony
erm achktually, they are the russians and soviet literally means council i think
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 my grandfather does not say so
They were mostly Russian
russia ran it all
I'm increasingly annoyed that WW2 historians continue to forget the German Invasion of Legoland and the valiant last stand the Lego defenders fought in the Battle of Lego City and the crucial effects this played in the economical structuring of the international market, such as exporting crucial infrastructural Lego bricks to the enemies of Germany such as the Soviets, which is one reason the Russians suffered so much over the period of the invasion, or the volunteers of Lego master builders which helped produced hundreds of allied fighters and tanks helping in the Battle of Britain and the War in the Pacific. Please dont forget the Legoland war and the valiant lego figures who fell defending their homeland.
Thank you so much for this quality content
I NEED IT NOW😂
28:26 great Finnish nation
Just love using hoi4 sounds
Years of failed attempts to form an anti-German alliance by the Soviets under foreign minister Litvinov over distrust and unwillingness to allow the Red Army to cross through Poland made the pact with Germany the next available option. Remember that the Soviets were not invited to Munich in spite of their defence treaty with Czechoslovakia and stated willingness to defend it given an agreement with Britain and France.
Fine, that was their calculation, but how short-sighted it was that they didn't see that an agreement with Germany would be a possible consequence of that? The pact was an example of skilled double-politics on the Soviet's part. They could happily settle with advancing their positions without them and with a more desperate and needy partner. Why should the Soviets have thrown themselves into a war they weren't ready for to protect their own enemies? It is a mystery why it is so confusing to people today that have hindsight.
Why is it assumed that the USSR owed Britain and France anything? They had to a score to settle with the Baltics, Poland, and Bessarabia after their interventions in the Russian Civil War as well. I don't find it so mysterious.
Your political stance will determine your moral judgement on it. Either way it can't be denied that it was an excellent diplomatic manoeuvre. They advanced their positions, settled some of their scores, secured their neutrality for a time (though they had clearly expected it would last longer), broken a possible double invasion by Germany and Japan, and opened the room for further diplomatic manoeuvres. Stalin was maybe the world champion of politics and conspiracy in his time. A scary opponent to have.
I don't blame anyone for mistrusting the Red Army inside their borders. The Spanish Civil War was showing the world rather clearly what happens when you let them in. If this army exterminates socialists and anarchists over ideological disagreements, why would a non-leftist nation even want to risk letting them in?
But you are right, the USSR wanted to stop Germany rather vehemently. At first, that is. Appeasement changed that thoroughly.
The issue with what you're saying is the "double-politics" part. This idea the Soviets maintained their neutrality "for a time" is a an attempt to rewrite their ultimate goal as somehow defeating the Axis. Or to "forgive" their obvious collaboration with them until they were backstabbed.
Germany betrayed the Soviets, not the other way around. Their delayed response, to the point of actual denial in the chain of command that the Germans were invading, is clear evidence they didn't intend to challenge Germany at any point in the future. And it does make sense. Because if you foresee conflict with a country, giving them resources and helping them become stronger is not a good idea.
Stalin, assumed, incorrectly, that Hitler was a sane individual who cared about geopolitics. He assumed he would reap the rewards of a German victory or stalemate against the allies. And when Hitler invaded the USSR (as was his goal from the beginning, geopolitics be damned), Stalin was forced to change his stance for the second time, going back to the anti-German outlook he had before Molotov and Ribbentrop met up.
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The Hussars rode again!
How long will this series be?
USSR didn't start WW2 neither was ally of Nazis
if not 'ally' certainly 'friend' and even that's beign generous to Russia. After all they signed a treaty of friendship, collaborated with rearming germany and congratulated ah on the fall of paris.
@@AlexC-ou4ju USSR offered to France and UK anti Nazi defensive agreements but they were never accepted, Soviet Union also wanted to protect Czechoslovakia from Germany but was never invited to Munich conference. And when were that USSR collaborated on rearming Germany?, UK for example made a naval treaty with Germany to let them expand its navy. Only after all attempts of creating coalition against Germany failed, USSR decided to move its borders further west to prepare for a german invasion alone.
@@Cndrm-d9t "USSR offered to France and UK anti Nazi defensive agreements but they were never accepted" >The pact was concluded in Paris on 2 May 1935 and ratified by the French government in February 1936. Ratifications were exchanged in Moscow on 27 March 1936, and the pact went into effect the same day. It was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on 18 April 1936.
As for the collaboration>
militarily:“I argue that Germany would not have been capable of starting a war, let alone beating many of its adversaries, without all of this secret work,” Johnson said. “Between 1922 and 1933, all of these factories, laboratories, testing grounds and training facilities were relocated to the USSR. Almost every tank that Germany started WWII with was based on engineering work done in the USSR. Most of the engineering teams from major German firms moved there. Seven of Germany’s eight aircraft manufacturers were doing research at Soviet facilities.
“Without these bases, Germany wouldn’t have had modern tanks or planes at all"
'Economically: the Soviet Union made repeated efforts to reestablish closer contacts with Germany in the mid-1930s. The Soviet Union chiefly sought to repay debts from earlier trade with raw materials, while Germany sought to rearm. The two countries signed a credit agreement in 1935. By 1936, crises in the supply of raw materials and foodstuffs forced Hitler to decree a Four Year Plan for rearmament "without regard to costs"In 1936, the Soviets attempted to seek closer political ties to Germany along with an additional credit agreement, which were rebuffed by AH, who wished to steer clear of such political ties."
@@Cndrm-d9t so ill assume it youtube ate my reply. this is very frustrating. summary the treaty between france and the soviet union was indeed signed and recorded in the LON archives.
in terms of collaboration, there were significant credit for raw materials deals between Nz germany and USSR, furthermore 7/8 german airplane manufacturers and several german armour manufacturers produced and tested their vehicles in the USSR to avoid western powers investigating them for breaching versailles treaty terms.
@@AlexC-ou4ju Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty were indeed signed but after death of French minister of foreign affairs Louis Barthou, french ministry of foreign affairs and french government had little enthusiasm in countering or threating german aggression. And about joint German-Soviet tank and aircraft research, it was canceled in 1933, due to nazis rising to power in Germany. Sweden,Turkey and Romania provided Germany with resources as well and for far more bigger period of time.
What’s the song at 1:03?
Edit: Never mind, I found it. It’s called Cittadina Irresistibile.
The title is totally misleading. I see some attempts of neohistory here. Firstly, there was no Russia at that time but the USSR. Then, Germany conquered Europe and used its resources to try to conquer the USSR. That failed and when the USSR counterattacked, the Anglosaxons came to reap the spoils of war, hitting Germany in the back.
No, because while the Soviets might have been able to "hold" Barbarossa on their own, there was no guarantee that they would reach Berlin. This was only ensured by Lend-Lease, the Allied air war, and the Allied fronts in Africa, Italy, and ultimately France. Without the Western Allies, (especially America), the USSR would not have been able to defeat Germany.
@@redan2883 None of you can make these definitive claims. You cant just assume that they would win or lose. Historically speaking the USSR MIGHT have won against Germany without the allies, but its definitely not certain.
@@wyvernah The Soviets themselves didn't have a chance to defeat Germany and its allies. At their peak, the Germans fielded almost as large an army as the Soviets (around 10 million people). However, the Germans had a more modern army, better logistics, and a significantly more powerful industry. After conquering Europe, the Axis also had a larger population base.
Meanwhile, the USSR was a poor state forcibly industrialized, which over 20 years built tanks that the Germans almost completely destroyed in 6 months. The Allies didn't provide the Soviets with many rifles or tanks, but they did supply food, engine parts, vehicles, rocket fuel, higher-quality oil than the Soviets had, canned goods, and more. This allowed millions of people who would have otherwise been producing these items to work in factories and produce military equipment instead.
The Allies also diverted a significant portion of German power. 25% of German steel production went to the navy to fight the Allies. The Allies bombed German cities, forcing the Germans to create a massive anti-aircraft defense system. They also broke German codes and shared this information with the Soviets.
So I can quite safely say that the Soviet Union alone was not able to defeat Germany, just as I can say that Poland was not able to defeat Germany in '39. These were simply too weak states. Well, unless all soldiers in the German army suddenly had a stroke at the same time. I cannot say that situation would never, ever, 100% absolutly happen, but chances are so insignificant I can assume it could not happened.
The Soviet Union occupied the same territory as tsarist Russia. It was Russia just with a different coat of paint.
Also the war would have ended in 1945 simply by the virtue of the nuke.
> Anglosaxons
Yeah, they used their longboats to destroy Germany
I know who you are, nobody sane uses that word anymore xd
Tell the pre WW2 America that Poland is the Texas of Europe and they’ll be faster at getting over there t help
Total historical revisionism
How? This is literally how it went
@@Fish_tank75 Lol countryballs
@@minded8929 ok… I don’t know how the art style counts as historical revisionism
Well, historically Germany in 1939 had different flag. But I know, censorship on YT is horrible.
Slovakia was officialy recognised by most European countries, including the UK & France. And those few hundred square miles of "Polish" land were part of historical Orava and Zips regions that Poland shamefully took in 1920 and after the Munich conference in 1938. And I'd argue that Slovakia was more or less as independent then as it is today. Hardly in chains, dare I say.
And one thing I find noteworthy; the German leader did not mention the Gleiwitz accident at all in his declaration of war speech. Nor have YOU mentioned the fact, the Poles, in late August, shot at German civilian planes traveling to East Prussia or that they blocaded Danzig or tried to coax the Allies to invade the Reich in 1934 and 1936 and that they discriminated against their minorities. Tens of thousands of Germans had to leave Poland between 1920 and 1939 to seek better and fairer life in Germany and abroad. Slovaks living in those aformentioned regions had their schools closed down; roadsides replaced with Polish ones, towns and villages were renamed and they were subject to harsh Polonisation measures.
It isn't as black and white as you try to portray it. Neither Poland nor Germany are innocent. Both contributed their fair share in starting this stupid war.
How did Poland take them both in 1920 and 1938?
In 1920 it was Czechoslovakia who simply took them, while Poland was busy defending against the Russian onslaught (that was supported by the beforementioned czechs)
@@susangoaway They moved the border in some places further south by taking small parts of Northern Slovakia in 1938 on top of those lands, which they took in 1920, is what I meant. And to clarify; I am not talking about Zaolzie, the territory the Czechs took in 1920, rather about Orava and Zips. These regions had no historical ties to Poland nor the Polish nation, as these regions had 80% Slovak majority, so their annexation was unjustified & unfair.
No, this is probably the closest to black and white a war has ever been. One side fighting for the survival of its state. one that hasn't existed for centuries. The other intended to fucking genocide Slavs, Jews, Africans, Gypsies, etc. in order to "preserve the Aryan race". Even if the Allies did bad things, they are innocent in comparison to the 11 million (and by some inclusions, more) defenseless people that the Germans managed to slaughter like animals.
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Stalin IS interested in polska cats
The reasons on why the Polish military, despite some of it's advancements, was not able to last better against the German forces during the invasion of Poland can be boiled down into several factors.
*(PART 1)*
*1.0:* During the Late 1920's and Early 1930's, the Polish military got massively defunded, with funds intended for the military having been stripped away in the 1920's and 1930's for reasons not yet entirely clear, thus severely reducing it's strength and numbers, and deducting it of larger numbers of future modern equipment such as tanks, aircraft, and artillery.
*1.* To make matters worse. After Piłsudski's death in 1935, there was a faction conflict in the ruling BBWR party, and a large split occured between two factions. "Mościcki's Castle", which was the senile politicians in charge of the government, and the "Marshal's Men", which were the younger and competent military officers and generals, the exception being Marshal Edward Rydz himself.
*2.* The military, foressing future German and Soviet aggression, wanted to prepare for future war by continuously build up Poland's military into a large, strong, and modern fanatical army, going with the maxim "If you want peace, prepare for war", preferrably the better choice.
*3.* The politicians however, had another idea. They opposed this and instead wanted to rely on two Non-aggression pacts with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and constantly making it clear to them that Britain and France would intervene and defend Poland in the event of an invasion, to try to keep them away from invading and keeping perpetual peace going that way, going along with the views of Appeasement and trying to avoid war at all costs by turning Poland into a "forever-peaceful" weak state instead of a strong country republic with a large, modern, professional and fanatical army.
*4.* However, Edward Rydz was a pussy, and not even a marshal. He was easily manipulated by the politicians, claimed that Poland "didn't have any money" for a "modest re-armament plan", and that Poland was chronically impoverished and wasn't allowed to afford even a proper military. He also thought that the best way to defend the country was to continue pouring money on fortifications instead of military equipment, while at the same time having screwed up the country's military priorities, as fortifications were being built on Poland's Eastern border, and not the Western border as it should've been, and he never questioned it.
*5.* Worst of all however, Edward Rydz entirely threw BBWR's ideals out of the window and created a Neo-National Conservative cult organization for himself, known as the "National Unity Camp", to further his and the state's propaganda image, taking the state's problems with it's strategy and military and just putting propaganda on it. So much for a person who said the military was in a disasterous state after Piłsudski's death.
*6.* Of course, the politicians won out, and here is how it affected the Polish military's performance during the September Campaign in the Invasion of Poland in 1939.
*1.1:* As i previously mentioned, the politicians won over the military by chosing to entirely rely upon the strategy of 2 Non-agression pacts signed in the Interwar years with Nazi Germany and the USSR and making it clear to them that Britain and France would defend Poland against an invasion try to keep them away from invading.
*1.* The Lipski-Neurath Non-aggression pact, signed in 1934, and the Soviet-Polish Non-aggression pact, signed in 1932. However, once the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and it's secret protocol were signed in 1939 days before the invasion, after Poland rightfully refused the German ultimatum to give away Gdańsk, Gdynia, the Polish Corridor, literally Poland's only access to the sea, that secret protocol broke both of the 2 Non-aggression pacts Poland had made earlier and made the Polish strategy of relying on them effectively useless, so it was a bad move to even make them in the first place, but the politicians who overruled the military didn't realize this.
*2.* Now here's the thing about the German ultimatum. It had no actual justification in many ways.
The Free City of Danzig was not majority pro-German, it was mostly under Polish government control and influence as a satellite state, allowed by the League of Nations, or should i say addicted/dependant on the Polish government, which allowed them to control imports and exports, and whatever flowed in or out of the port. However, most importantly, Poland did not disrupt the flow of goods to Mainland Germany or East Prussia, so the German ultimatum and demand of land connection was pointless and unjustified anyway, as it was more about connecting Germany's dumb-ethnic exclave people than anything else.
*3.* Poland also had a full garrison stationed at Westerplatte as further proof that the Polish were the ones actually in control. So in reality, Danzig was, like a satellite state, dependant on the Polish government, and wasn't under the full control of strong pro-German sentiment, so that couldn't be exploited in the ultimatum either.
*4.* The German ultimatum also dictated that Poland give away it's entire Polish Corridor, including Gdańsk and Gdynia, literally the only Polish access to the sea to Germany, basically recreating the Pre-WWI Imperial German borders and connecting Pomerania with East Prussia, as well as building a highway to make a land connection between them. The Polish government rejected this unjustified demand, because even if they did give away the Polish Corridor back to Germany, the Polish government reasoned that the more Poland would give away, the more and more the German monster would want, basically recreating a situation similar to that of the Partitions of Poland and the Munich Agreement, so the Polish governent rightfully there refused the German ultimatum because of that reason.
*(PART 2)*
*1.2:* The second reason was the flawed Polish defensive plan. Prior to the German invasion, in the Late 1930's, the Polish created the so-called "Operational Plan West", the main Polish defensive plan, and this is where the previous split between the military and politicians in the ruling Sanacja BBWR party comes into place, as it was a deciding factor on the future Polish strategy, which would entirely seal Poland's fate later on.
*1.* The first flaw was that it relied entirely on the support of Britain and France, which was never even entirely guaranteed or coordinated in the first place, besides a few military missions here and there, there was going to be no real help coming from the Allies to Poland to prevent a German invasion in the first place.
*2.* Had the Allies joined in as planned, with France doing the major ground assault with only a token German troops on the French border and no fortifications in the way, and Britain providing bombing support on the Ruhr valley industrial areas in the Rhine, the war wouldn't last 6 years, Germany would've capitulated much sooner, and there wouldn't be the bloodshed we had to witness in the actual Second World War.
*3.* And instead of Poland being sold out to the Soviets by the Allies at the Yalta Conference and there being an Iron Curtain, it would be just Poland and the Allies that would take Berlin and occupy Germany, similar to 1945, and the USSR just remaining their own nation, trying to survive, especially after having failed to deliver on their promise in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact made with Nazi Germany.
*4.* The second flaw was that Plan West, stipulated by the politicians, stated that the Polish Army be stationed directly on the border and spread thin, which would make them extremely vulnerable to encirclement and worsen the logistics and communication lines of the Polish military.
*5.* The military despised if not criticized this and made a smarter and more prudent strategy that the Polish Army should be stationed a good distance away from the border but along natural barriers such as concentrating the defenses most importantly on the rivers, as well as forests, hills and pre-existing defensive fortifications.
*6.* This would make the Polish Army invulnerable to encirclement and would improve their logistics and communication lines, fortifying it's defensive positions to the point of in theory causing irreplaceable losses to the Germans and inevitably stopping the Blitzkrieg and reducing it to an attrition war until Germany pulled away it's stronger troops to fight Britain and France, and allowing Poland to counter attack.
*7.* And if Nazi Germany halted, the Soviets would not invade, because the sole reason on why the USSR did not invade until September 17th. was to see how well the Polish forces would do against the Germans, and if they would've noticed the Allies helping Poland, they wouldn't invade, that would risk a pointless war with them that Stalin could not afford to fight, and damaging his earlier talks with Britain and France about a future alliance against Nazi Germany, as well as potentially dragging USA into joining to fight against both, the Soviets and Nazi Germany.
*8.* However, the politicians overruled the military through political decisions, simply stating that by stationing the military away from the border, there wouldn't be any resistance mean't to receive the German attack and trigger Britain and France to help Poland, and they would be forced to give up their lands at the border, the infrastructure, resources and industry, and that they couldn't just give it up to the Germans without a fight, even though there was barely any economic assets at the border and most of it was concentrated in Poland's major cities, all heavily defended, so the argument of the politicians made no sense, but overruling the military yet again, the politicians doomed the Polish defensive plan from the very start.
*9.* Later into the invasion, the rapidly collapsing logistical and communication situation became apparent, and caused the defensive plan to fail in it's intended goals. For example, the planned strategic regrouping and calling up the reserves to stop the Germans from breaking through all failed because of the politicians overruling the military in all strategic matters.
*(PART 3)*
*1.3:* The third reason was Poland's own allies, Britain and France, both of which were following the policy of Appeasement at the time instead of taking any meaningful military action against Nazi Germany when they invaded Poland. Notable examples including the Saar Offensive which was actually a small-scale show of force to try to dissuade Hitler from continuing the invasion, and the anti-war leaflet dropping on Germany that followed to prevent war with Britain and France.
*1.* When German troops were gearing up to invade on the Polish border, and Poland ordered general mobilization, they were shut down by Britain and France under the pretext that it would give Germany an excuse to invade, and they kept saying so even as German troops and motorized formations literally massively gathered on the Polish border. So Poland was forced to mobilize their troops in secret, which was much more difficult.
*2.* Thanks in part to Poland's allies telling them not to mobilize against Nazi Germany, and being forced to mobilize troops in secret, Poland ended up having a much smaller amount of troops than they would've had if they fully mobilized and the Allies not disuaded them from it.
*3.* During the actual invasion, of the 1,000,000 Polish Army troops that mobilized, little of that actually fought, and over 600,000 of that number were captured thanks to the Polish defensive plan making the Polish Army vulnerable to encirclement, instead of all of the mobilized troops fighting fiercely and fanatically as they should've had if they were provided all the necessary large numbers of modern equipment and the military in charge had the Polish government not intentionally stripped away funds from the Polish Armed Forces during the 1920's and 1930's and had the political split in the Sanacja BBWR party between the government and the military not happened.
*4.* There wasn't going to be any sort of help coming from the Allies to Poland in the first place, unless convinced by the larger theoretical resistance put up by Poland assuming the military's strategy approach instead of the politicians' one, or unless dragged into the war by force if Poland followed through with the mobilization instead of being shut down by the Allies.
*5.* Besides notable military missions, there was no real insurance of help coming to Poland in case of an invasion. Contrary to popular belief, the Allies didn't directly help Poland not because the invasion happened so fast they couldn't react, or because that they were just pussies, but because the Allies instead of directly helping Poland military chose to take the invasion as an excuse to rather prepare for a future war on the French border and abandoning Poland in favor, and this future war happened in May 1940, and we can all tell how that went.
*6.* The Allies at this point were still focused on trying to appease Hitler, despite Poland having provided intelligence about the upcoming invasion to the Allies, all the vital details of where they would attack from, and when, even capturing the first intact Enigma machine before the war, decoding it, reverse engineering said Enigma machine and then giving a copy of it each to Britain and France as a sweetener to make the Allies help Poland and put them up to fight against Nazi Germany.
*8.* However, after Britain and France declared war on September 3rd, and France making the attempted Saar Offensive, the French Army just suddenly stopped, instead choosing to retreat and go home while the Allies dropped anti-war leaflets to prevent war with Britain and France without having given the Polish Army any form of physical military help.
*9.* Assuming that the Polish had gone with the military strategy instead of the political one, had the Allies actually joined in as planned, with France doing the major ground assault past the French border, all the way through the Rhineland and all the way to Berlin, and the British providing air support by bombing Nazi Germany's industrial capacity and damaging their war machine, and the Polish Army having brought the German advance to a stalemate and counter-attacking, the USSR, seeing that the Allies were actually coming in to help Poland would not invade September 17th, because as previously mentioned, they wanted to see how well the Polish forces would do against the Germans, as when the Polish military was nearing collapse, only then the Soviets invaded, and the USSR did not want to risk a war with Poland's Allies that Stalin couldn't afford to fight, and damaging his earlier talks with Britain and France about a future alliance against Nazi Germany, as well as potentially dragging USA into joining to fight against both, the Soviets and Nazi Germany.
*9.* The sole reason on why the Soviets invaded, was due to politics, as the USSR wanted to regain the lands of Western Belarus and Ukraine, which was unjustified as they were under Polish control as Poland rightfully regained this smaller part of their former Polish-Lithuanian territory, commonly known as the Eastern Borderlands or Kresy, after the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920 when it was granted to them by the 1921 Peace of Riga, however, neither Piłsudski or the USSR liked the new Eastern border, as it didn't satisfy either side, but most importantly Poland, due to having been granted an Eastern border that was too economically unstable to defend as it left them with a diversity that couldn't coexist peacefully with the Poles and too diverse to even be assimilated to be given better benefits, and an ethnic minority too major to be ignored.
*10.* Back during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, a so called border known as the Dmowski Line was proposed, likely the most satisfying compromise for the Eastern border that Poland and the USSR would accept, which would've prevented the Soviets from invading altogether. If the conference was approved by the Entente after World War 1, and if Poland had actually fully pushed for that, then it would grant Poland lots of strategic land and buffer territory, basically giving the Polish Republic land that would make it too disadvantageous for either Germany or the USSR to attack them in the future, as these would soon find out to be exactly the territorial points that the Nazis and Soviets would launch their invasion from in 1939, just 20 years later.
*Additional Notes:*
It's what a lot of history and mindset on the Invasion of Poland and the September Campaign tend to miss. I'm surprised they all fail at this.
What's more, if Władysław Sikorski was the Marshal back then instead of Edward, none of this would have ever happened.
He wrote and published a book in 1934 in which he predicted the return of maneuver and mechanized warfare, while also meanwhile predicting the rapid militarization and expansionism of Nazi Germany.
While the Mościcki's Castle politicians and Marshal's Men military factions argued about switching strategic goals to political ones after Piłsudski's death in 1935, Sikorski could have easily taken power in a surprise theoretical coup d'etat, and Poland would already be something to work with.
It wouldn't have demobilized itself on request of France and Britain in response to German buildup of forces on the border, and it would have also created something way better than "Plan West", which was a strategic disaster, and not only that a German invasion wouldn't have even taken place, but Nazi Germany would be wiped completely off the map, and by the time the Allies would ask if we got invaded, the only response they'd get would be a clear one and in fluent American English: "No one did us shit."
The Ozone, Edward's National Conservative cult, similar to what we have today in Poland wouldn't have been in power, which instead of doing something practical with the Interwar military and fix the country's internal problems, it only ruled like a mafia and constantly shat a propagandic vision on the military and internal situation as much as it was able to, and allowed to continue wasting money on stopgap and something else rather than anything useful, while all those infamous Interwar politicians like foreign minister Józef Beck himself and Poland's entire government and military, including it's high command, fled the country in response to the invasion instead of staying to coordinate.
The reason why Poland even managed to last any in that current state was nothing short of shocking, because all the fighting was done by individual unit commanders, down to every division and brigade, all fighting on their own without proper orders from command or communication, because by this time, Marshal Edward and all his staff all left the country, including the government. Every single Polish Army unit in Poland had been fighting until encirclement, running out of supplies due to the rapidly worsening logistical situation in the "Plan West" plan, or just because of the extremely worsening morale situation, hence why they fought so fiercely, but never really managed to inflict any significant material losses that would severely weaken the Wehrmacht in the future, and only slightly prolonged the country's downfall without formal surrender.
Just imagine what could have been in this alternate timeline. Bolt-action rifles required nothing more than just pieces of wood and metal, right? How about light tanks, aircraft and artillery could be manufactured in the same way through mobilized and streamlined production?
Swarms of 9TP and 20/25TP light and medium tanks assisted by more mobile mechanized wheeled and tracked forces launching almost constant counter-invasion attacks, PZL.46B light/dive/scout/torpedo bombers and PZL.49B medium level/torpedo bombers wrecking the Wehrmacht's capacity to fight on land, air and sea, while PZL P.11G, PZL P.24H and PZL.50B fighters cleared the skies, and the Polish Navy, with it's large destroyer and submarine flotilla's hammering the Kriegsmarine into submission and disrupting any attempt at reinforcement with a contingency plan to withdraw to Britain once command deemed that enough fighting was done.
All while the Polish Border Guard destroys all possible railway, bridge and tunnel crossings at the start of the invasion, delaying the Germans' initial advance and fighting to the death, while the Polish Army, deployed well within villages, towns and major cities would be mopping the floor with German units, fighting fanatically and defending every single inch of ground to to the death, anti-aircraft batteries shooting down any and all Luftwaffe fighters or bombers that would even dare strafe or bomb innocent civilians down the streets, villages and farm fields, armored trains going behind enemy lines to provide backup to the defenders and causing chaos before leaving, and it wouldn't just be the military the Germans would have had to deal with, but the fanatical populace itself as well, which had helped build trench lines and fortifications while assisted by the mobilized, conscripts and reservists, and factories continuing to serve as production and repair facilities even if the war comes to them. Keep in mind this same Polish population and military in that alternate timeline is told and has it in their mind to take their enemy as nothing else than an inhuman mass of rolling rape, looting and massacre, due to a rapid change in mindset and sentiment among them, much thanks to Sikorski running things. To the average Polish mind, Panzer I's and II's are nothing more than small lightly armored tracked cars with two machine guns, and thus, it's easy to climb onto them, torch them, grenade them or just beat the living shit out of their crew.
This would have been something truly ultimate.
*Zaolzie Question:*
Well, Poland drove in and annexed the region not simply because it was willing to co-operate with Nazi Germany on Czechoslovakia. It's the fault of Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły and his OZN government which took over post-1935 after Piłsudski's death. As stereotypically "National Conservative" or "Anti-Semitic" it may have been for the time, Ozone had other ideas.
They saw that Czechoslovakia was being dismantled and were simply seeking to annex it silently, technically a territorial change so small the Polish government thought the Nazi's wouldn't mind, but they very much did, and so did the Soviet Union, and it even escalated to threats of intervention from both sides.
Germany literally dismantled and annexed a whole country and nobody said anything, Poland only just annexed a tiny part of communities where Poles mostly lived in, and everyone suddenly threw a fit. Truth is, partitioners and occupiers have a very high tendency to distrust one another, even if they necessarily don't align with each other's goals, or so i was told.
I was also told Poland had 2 choices. If they did annex Zaolzie, it would appear to the Allies as if Poland was an authoritarian Fascist regime just like the Nazi occupiers around them, thus becoming much less willing to help them in 1939. If Poland didn't annex Zaolzie, the French and British Allies would take it as a sign that Poland wasn't willing to be bribed by it's neighbors into doing something it wasn't able to do much earlier on before the Nazis even took power. How much of an influence and impact the annexation of Zaolzie really had on the Allies's likelihood to help Poland in 1939 is questionable, and there is not much evidence to support a very strong criticism of the Polish government in response to the annexation or how it affected the Allied declaration of war on Germany in response to the Invasion of Poland.
Whoever told me all of this, i don't know whether they were right or wrong, and i would rather take all of it with a grain of salt, but basically finished it by adding that "Poland reaped what they sowed". A pretty adamant and blunt way to put it.
However, the Zaolzie area goes back to a whole another separate different conflict of it's own, also called the Polish-Czechoslovak War, which dated all the way to the times back even before when the Treaty of Versailles was first signed, and nobody really cared back then. In order to understand why Poland annexed it in 1938, you need to understand origins of the Polish-Czechoslovak War first and why it happened. Not everything started with Poland being misinterpreted as a baddie just because it was unable to retake a small piece of territory it hadn't been able to recover years prior and only when it took just Nazi Germany and the Munich Agreement to severely weaken them, finally giving the Polish an opportunity to get it back.
In fact, most of the "Poland collaborating" stuff was done by Nazi German propaganda to paint them as a willing participant in the dismantlement of Czechoslovakia. This visibly much easier got picked up by the Western appeasement Allies, compared to a false-flag operation for a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, i guess.
You just can't be selective with Nazi propaganda. All of it is wrong.
Liberalism and gay ideology destroying Poland rn
yay new video :D