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Lwów, Wilno ... kresy - Poland have lost enormoust part of our heritage... [389]
The main problem with Czechoslovakia was that nobody really wanted to defend it (including
"Czechoslovaks" themselves.)
Learn history then come back to me, for now dont forget to place "in my opinion" before all of your posts on the subject.
How did they feel about going up against the Russians?
Russians were making loose offers of
very generous help to Czechoslovakia, for example at one point they offered 500 fighter planes etc.
Actually it was seen at that time as the best defensible country in the East...
No it was not, thats exactly the reverse history i was talking about, the Czechs themselves assumed they'd be able to roll for a
week before collapsing.
and their army was in higher numbers motorized with uptodate machinery than the german army.
No BB, in 1938 Germans had 1280 tanks and 630 armored cars, thats 1910 armored vehicles as opposed to 480 Czech vehicles only 350 of which were tanks and only 150 of those were modern.
Germany had 67000 motorised vehicles while Czech army had 11.000.
Germany had 140 modern fighters and about 400 older types, Czechoslovakia had approximately 300 extremely outdated biplane fighters who could do even less than polish PZLs in 1939.
To give you some comparison, in 1938 Czechoslovakia had two fast divisions (weak armored divisions) one with 150 tanks, the other with 75 Germany had 3 armored and 4 fast divisions as well as four armored brigades.
There was no competition whatsoever and unlike Poland which
if it had smart commanders could swamp german armor in huge infantry battles Czechs didnt have the kind of manpower or terrain to give away.
The only feasible way for this to work was for Poland to destory german forces in East Prussia which was doable with Czechoslovakia intact and then send 100.000+ troops to Czechoslovakia to reinforce the border and free up czech motorised and cavalry units for some sort of an offensive but Czechs would never allow polish armies within their borders.
