History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]

Sorry, it's 4am. And there is a cost to all this. And then their would have been the negative feedback from all the European countries that "Poland" is leading an arms race. And who does Poland think she is by doing that. And then Germany would have jumped on the bandwagon and said it was going into Poland to take out a repressive regime, etc. Poland is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't!!!!!!!!!

And the truth is that Germany had their hands in Poland for a long time and so did Russia and both didn't want to give that up. And that is still true to this day in regards to Russia. It makes me so happy that Russia's panties are in a bunch because the U.S. wants to put missles in Poland. And with U.S. missles, come U.S. money!!!!!!!!!!!! And a better economy, etc. Finally Poland may be on the right track to properity!!!!!!!

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]

Ya know, Hitler's generals didn't want to fight a two front war. And when Germany invaded Poland, that is exactly what would have happened had the French who supposedly had the latest and greatest weaponry at the time and lets not forget the Maginot Line. Good or bad. I have read that the French had 92 divisions idle incase the Germans invaded. And Germany had 34 divisions waiting for the French if they invaded. If they did and made a play for Berlin, guess what? The Germans would have pulled back out of Poland and given them a chance to regroup. And possibly the Russians would not have gone through with their invasion. Fearing that the French and the British would make good on their treaties. But no, the French always fail. And you pick on Poland????? They tried and tried hard. They did make a giant mistake and that was expecting help from other countries. They should have taken worst case scenario that if no one come to our aid, we need to be prepared, period. And maybe that is what they did but it seems they truly expected help from their treaties that were in place. In the early 30's Poland should have requested aid from the U.S. in the form of planes and tanks. Like buying everything the U.S could produce for them. Planes like the P-51 Mustang. I know the British actually contracted to buy that plane from us. I think they actually brought their desires to one of our plane companies to get it built and we liked the design also. Poland could have and should have built up their air force so that they could have controlled the skies. I know it has been said that if you control the sky, you control the war. The Polish pilots that flew under the Royal air force were the most highly decorated in the British air force so I have to belive that the Poles enjoy shooting Germans out of the sky and it probably would have been a really good fit for the Poles to have say 4000 planes to pummel the German invasion. That would have been absolutely fantastic to hear the Germans got obliterated on their entry into Poland and then stabbed in the back by the French. WWII over in 4 weeks. How about those headlines??????????/ I have read that Poland was in the process of upgrading every aspect of their military prior to WWII. And had war broken out in say '42 they would have been much more propared to go it alone. And if Germany was successful with their invasion of Poland what would stop them from then turning west????? Why not invade Germany when she is invading another country to catch them unprepared to totally defend herself???? The French, completely useless!!!!!!!!!!!