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WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [900]
Ridiculous.
Nun ja...if you think so...
Which, incidentally, they still haven't paid back...
I believe they paid back everything...it was in the news...
December 29, 2006
By Bloomberg News
Britain will transfer $84 million to the U.S. Treasury today, the final payment on a debt used to finance the World War II defeat of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.
The U.S. extended $4.34 billion in credit in 1945, allowing the U.K. to stave off bankruptcy after devoting almost all its resources to the war for half a decade. Since 1950 Britain has made payments on the debt at the end of every year except six.
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Only as long as the German economy could sustain it. In this case, not very long at all.
That wasn't the question.
The "What if" you brought on was if Germany could have gotten away with it if they had been content with Poland, not about their economy.
I think perhaps your timeline is a little... different... from the rest of ours. What year, again, did Germany attack the USSR? After invading France, wasn't it? Which they did after France attacked them, didn't they?
Again...in your "What if" there would be no further war..not with GB nor with Russia and everything points to that if Germany had sat quietly on Poland alone and had left the other powers to their own nothing else would had happened than just lot's of exchange of diplomatical niceties.
Why did Britain even enter the war in the first place?!
Because they saw Germany as the one real threat to their european balance?
Why do you think Britain didn't declare war to the Russians too (who also invaded Poland)?
Face it, this all has nothing to do with the cuddly Poles but everything with tough european power games.
They would, and they did.
No they wouldn't have if GB hadn't lobbied for years...
The phony war between Germany, France and GB
(you know the whole time the Wehrmacht was having fun in Poland) was only broken by the german invasion of France and Germany getting uncomfortable close to the british islands.
GB had to do something about it and called Washington.
Then Hitler thought that a good moment to wake the other behemoth...well...we know the rest.
Scratch that and Germany would still sit on Poland!
