What Happened in the Danzig Corridor 1939? Poles Slaughtering Germans?

I have always been confused about the historical reality of what happened in the Danzig corridor in 1939, which many claim was the direct provocation for the German attack on Poland...I picked out a 'revisionist' article about from the web, as a starting point for discussion...do we have some historians, professors or students who might wish to give a Polish version of the events?...the Polish leadership, under Beck and his two associates seem to have miscalculated events.

ihr.org/jhr/v04/v04p205_Hoggan.html

isn't that when Russian soldiers executed a ton of poles?

This site tell this part of history well. Carol
The act of war: AD 1939

During the night of August 31 a group of German soldiers, dressed as Poles, attack the German radio station in the border town of Gleiwitz. They have brought with them a German criminal, taken for the purpose from a concentration camp. They shoot him and leave his body as evidence of the night's dark deeds.

Berlin radio broadcasts to the world the news of this act of Polish aggression, together with details of the necessary German response. In the early hours of the morning of September 1 Hitler's tanks move into Poland. His planes take off towards Warsaw on the first bombing mission of a new European war.

historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=ogj

No, Celinski...I know about that...in 1939 many Germans were massacred in the Danzig corridor, some claim by Poles, some say 'bolsheviks'...this was the event that directly provoked the German invasion...did the Poles commit these acts for any or no particular reason?...and did this act have the support of the Polish government, or was it an act committed by bolsheviks?

joe, are you a szwab or something? that was the story spun by hitler. i am not so sure if it's true at all.

That was nothing but a big fat lie.

I found a debating Forum on this subject, check it out.

debatingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1024&view=previous&sid=610bd6f87075ef36d7533436f74ed726

bolsheviks in 1939 in western Poland ? Provokations ? ... Joe ... I think you have problems with history ... I don't know what is mainstream history in USA ... I feel it is much different than in Poland.

Take it from me...the history books have HUGE differences and much different accounts of the same events in the USA vs Poland.

Lots of room for improvement in USA, more is passed through family history.

In Germany we call it "Bromberger Blutsonntag" and it happened!

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromberger_Blutsonntag

Bye

This is very very true.

nothing like retiliating against boy scouts and such.. oh the brave nazis. *rollleyes*


part of this is that in PL real historical events have been suppressed ever sinc ethe commies.. thing sare just coming to light now. eventually the histories will be much closer.

Yeah I know that and believe me I've seen textbooks from other countries that basically invented history themselves. Things have come a long way since the fall of communism

This is what I was referring to...what is the meaning of this?...is there truth here?

judicial-inc.biz/Broomberg.htm

Well it's not exactly the most reputable reference I've ever seen.

Joe your ststements are so idiotic that I am not going to discusse it. Poles and Jews killing Germans ? Bolsheviks in western Poland (LOL) before WWII ?!? you are sick...

it is good that you edited this part of your post ...

In fact, it was ethnic Poles massacred in various areas of Silesia throughout the interwar period, not ethnic Germans in Danzig. This sounds like old war propaganda used by the German government at the time to justify the Wehrmacht's invasion of Polish territory and the destruction of Warsaw.

i can't fathom how this site could be construed as anything but crazy. do you believe any of it to be true?

did you read about the part that poland was actually threatening the nazis? if that ain't a sad joke, i dunno what is.

they say in there that bydgoszcz was given to PL after the ww1.. how about RETURNED?


yes, the Polish Menace.

Here it is in English: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_%281939%29


It looks like there was a massacre of the German minority in town of Bydgoszcz two days after the German invasion of Poland.

I've never heard about it, have you?


The massacre in Bydgoszcz accrued two days AFTER the start of the invasion.

this bydgoszcz thing is new on me too but there was some weird events just around that time.. i think it was gdansk.. i'll search around and see if it comes to me.

This sounds like an entirely justified massacre to me.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Himmler
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident

euhm, all I can say is that US ppl should come get some history lessons in europe to get the real story of annything in history doing to world wars etc.

Thanks for the post plk. It appears the answers to Pilsudski's questions may lie in the sources contained in references 14 to 16 of plk's post on Operation Himmler.

Yeah...well...so was the whole polish campaign! :)

Don't forget the shape of the Polish western border after the WWII. :):)

And still the Poles like to see themselves as victims after all they gained...can you believe it! :)

why are you being that way.. pommerania historically has always been polish not german. silesia has always been pretty well mixed. what do you mean by gains? we lost half of our eastern territories.

justified? i sure hope the turks in your own country show you justified. just throwing crap out here without any back up is so freaking nazi of you.

That's because they should have gained much more. :)

How much more? Some more of Lithuania? Some more of Ukraine? Some more of the Czech Republic? Why not some more of Germany?

Manno, you don't have enough people for all that as they leave Poland in droves to invade other countries for a better living instead to make something out of the land you have...


Somehow I missed your righteous indignation at that:


So please spare me!