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Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]
On the contrary, in the peace offer of Hitler to Churchill after Dunkirk 1940 an independent Polish state was part of the offer..
I read your post several times because I thought I misread something in the latter part of your post. Do you really wanna say Hitler's intention was to make Poland a Dominion of Germany, just like Ireland was to England or Hawaii to the US? Even if Hitler should have made such an proposal to Churchill in June 1940 it is pretty obvious this was ludicrous attempt to led astray the Brits and the other Western allies, because the Western half of Poland was already annexed to Germany, and I don't mean the frontier of the year 1914 but also Greater Polish cities like Lodz were annexed to Germany. Millions of Poles were deprived of even the simplest human rights and being already expelled from their homes and deported to the "General Gouvernment", hundreds of thousands of members of the Polish elite were already killed. Which frontiers of Poland did Hitler guarantee to Churchill?
The occupation of Poland was something completely different from the Nazi German occupation of France, the Netherlands, Denmark or Norway, which was a rather classical occupation of defeated states during a war, except for the hundreds of thousands of Western and Northern European Jews of course.
What the Nazis did in Poland was not a normal occupation but a systematic program to annihilate the Polish nation and millions of Polish individuals. I don't wanna get too deep into that, but it appears to me you have a lack of knowledge what happened East of the German frontiers in the years 1939 to 1945, so would suggest you read a bit about what happened in the "Generalgouvernement", before you write nonsense like this, which is a slap in the faces of millions of victims and their kinsmen. Wikipedia might be a good start: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Government
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I agree with you that Germany is not the sole responsible nation for the outbreak of WWI, and that the inhabitants of Danzig were deprived of their right of self-determination in 1919 when the allies decided to create the Free City of Danzig. Obviously the Danzigers wanted to remain within Germany borders.
No area was added to Poland without plebiscite, What are you rubbishing about ?
Ironside, I would have expected you know that the areas Prussia annexed from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Greater Poland (Provinz Posen) and most parts of Royal Prussia (Westpreußen) were returned to Poland without a plebiscite. It is debatable if the majority of inhabitants of Westpreußen/Pomorze/Royal Prussia would have voted for Poland in 1919.
I know your opinion that you think injustice - as the destruction of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th century definitely was - does not expire and therefore the German inhabitants in these territories did not have the right of self determination.
Doesn't seems to be the truth in the case of Poland. Germans are perusing their selfish interest and do not care much about interest of Poland, given their leading status in the EU it doesn't bid good for the future.
Every nation if pursuing her own interests. This is not a secret. But the vast majority of Germans have learned that Germany needs to be well integrated into a European framework of co-operating states if Germany wants to be successful. Question is do Poland and Germany have the same interests. In a world where the European influence is shrinking rapidly I think the answer is yes.