a result, by 1938 Poland
a result, by 1938 Poland had territorial claims to all States on the perimeter borders - to Danzig, Lithuania, USSR (Minsk, Kiev, Odessa), Czechoslovakia and Germany. In Warsaw, did not hesitate to emphasize: "Since the First World War gave Poland independence and regained part of the Polish native land, it is hoped that another great war will bring Poland, the rest of its territory. "
March 11 1938 on the demarcation line that divided Poland and Lithuania, was found dead Polish soldier. March 13 Warsaw placed the responsibility for his death on Lithuanian side and rejected its proposal to establish a joint commission to investigate the incident. The Polish army began preparations for the invasion of territory of the eastern neighbor, and only the firm stance of the USSR prevented the occupation of Lithuania.
During the Sudeten crisis in the autumn of the same in 1938 Poland, together with Germany, demanded that the division of Czechoslovakia. On the orders of his government on October 1, Czechoslovak troops began to retreat from the Polish border, and the next Day Polish troops occupied the area Tesin.
March 25, 1939 in Warsaw, there were mass demonstrations with slogans: "Down with the German dogs! Long live Polish Danzig! "at the German Embassy were smashed all the windows. At the same time in Krakow and Poznan, the crowd of Poles committed the German pogroms.
«In the middle August Poles as a precautionary measure spent hundreds of arrests among the local Germans. The German publishers and the press banned. August 24 eight Germans who had been arrested in Upper Silesia, had been shot on his way to jail. " And this quote is not from the speeches of Joseph Goebbels, and the monograph by the Dutch anti-fascist Louis de Jong ...
Polish generals were eager to fight, planning for a month to take Berlin, which was created a powerful grouping of central ...
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