The Poms who stood by the Poles in WW2

Britain's decision to support Poland cost millions upon millions of lifes; both soldiers and civilians. I wonder if the British politicians would have decided differently if they would've known what the price of WW2 would be in the end.


Why did they sign the treaty with Poland then?

Do you? I suppose you never did wonder what the ultimate price might have been if Europe was left to the Nazis.

ShortHairThug

Did I ask an inconvenient question?


Europe was left to the Nazis for almost 5 years, and yes, I know what the ultimate price for that was. Besides: I don't believe that Britain stood up for Poland because it was a noble cause or because they wanted to protect humanity from the evil Nazis. It was all about their own power and influence in the world.

Not at all.


It has not, during this entire time there was someone to step on their toes.


Great deduction, so haw is it different from the opinion of many Poles on this forum, and that a lot of you get so offended by.

Yup, especially during the time between Dunkirk and D-Day... ;)


I'm not Polish.

Now that’s questionable wouldn’t you say, you have to admit they steped on your toes so hard you had to go home to rest them a while.

Well, dropping bombs on civilians is not particularly brave, is it? Not that the Germans were any better in this respect. Battle of Britain ... you're correct, of course.

We're not talking about civilians but British Expeditionary Force limping back to the Island.

Sorry, what do you mean? I was hinting at the bombing raids of the British and American airforces on European cities.

At the time of Dunkirk?

Do I really have to answer?

But how can the "British Expeditionary Force limping back to the Island" (quoting you) be considered to step on Germany's toes?

No you don’t, I have more than enough to form an opinion about you, thank you very much.

ShortHairThug

Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.


You're welcome.

no one is interested in your lies as you post them in other posts, all you have just excuses.


the deal was to attack Germany from west side, and that did not happen.

^ Can you go into detail about the document in which Britain promised to attack Germany from the west? And perhaps you could also tell us from where and with which forces Britain should have attacked Germany?

Alternatively you can be a classic Pole and just ignore all questions like that and bleat about western betrayal. I wonder which option you'll pick.

Why didnt you just answer the question, it was quite simple.


Which deal? You actually amused me with the above, it reminded me of a scene out of the Office, where they take the pi$$ out of the guy in the TA.

yes Harry maybe you can show me the pic again when British navy going to fight Germans and polish navy in retreat , get real Harry.

^ So what you are saying is that you can not name the document in which Britain agreed to attack Germany from the west because no such document exists, you can not say where Britain could have launched an attack on Germany in September 1939 because no such place exists, you can not specify the forces with which Britain could have attacked Germany in September 1939 because no such forces existed and you can not give a single thing which Britain could have done in September 1939 to help Poland which Britain did not do.

But of course none of this will stop you bleating about how terrible the British were during WWII. How very Polish of you.

German, german cities old chap.

Ask the French!
Many were not especially happy about the allied troops as many cities which managed to survive the Germans quite fine but got now bombed into oblivion by the american/british airforce. Interesting chapter of the war.





....and that was only the Normandy. Till May 45 the allied bombed alot of cities, european cities not only german ones.

Was?Que?

Do you have some kind of alarm system set up that links key words written on PF such as German, Nazi, Hitler etc.. directly to your brain?

Hehehe, he seems to have. America has continued with their golden tradition of blue-on-blue, friendly fire. Many Scots stood by the Poles in WWII. They had a large contingent in Glasgow and my grandad can remember talking with them with their broken English.

No discussion of Allied war crimes in Normandy would be complete without mentioning the brave heroes of the 1st Polish Armoured Division who executed 1,300 of the 1,500 German POWs who fell into their hands after the battle of the Falaise Pocket in August 1944.

Damn....now you found out my secret! *wails* I think I might have to shoot you now...

Do you have a link for this ( I have searched ) ? Thanks

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Armoured_Division_(Poland)

Thanks Harry. To be honest, it looks like a lot of Ambroses factual writings have been queried.

Just realised there was a lengthy thread on the subject on these forums already.

Another good source are the discussions on this forum Poland Axis history.

There is enough on the Axis forum to keep Bratwurst Boy going for months :-)

Manno...I was an Axis (forum)-veteran already before I found PF! ;)
(I even had their logo as my avatar in the beginning...not taken lightly here first...had to change it...)

Maybe, but he isn't the orginal source for this, he's quoting John Colby "War From the Ground".

There is one more quotation from Colby's book: "We learned that the Polish troops had a simple formula in determining what to do with Polish nationals, a number of whom had been conscripted to serve in the German army. If the Polish soldier was a private, he was issued a Polish (British) uniform and incorporated into the Polish units. If the Polish soldier was serving as a non-commisioned officer or higher rank, he was immediately shot for cooperating with the enemy".

From forum.axishistory:

"The Poles claim they turned over all their POWs (1906) to the Americans in Chambois during a single day and the Americans have a receipt (plus memoirs) the Poles turned over 950 POWs to them in two groups and within two days. Fate of 956 POWs is unknown.

The same members claim the soldiers of this division admited after the war they had murdered a large group of SS men during the battle of Falaise."