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Only in the sense that the Poles and French military and political leadership were utterly incompetent. The Poles weren't ready for an invasion and the French were too dumb to consider that the Germans wouldn't just yolo into the Maginot Line. The Wehrmacht was severely outgunned and outnumbered compared to the enemies it was facing.
That's the official narrative that you seem to think doesn't exist.
He does? Funny, the media propaganda tells me that if Ukraine doesn't stop Putler he's gonna invade the rest of Europe. But I guess half of Europe are "historic Russian lands".
Obviously they knew that. They also did not expect the Von Manstein plan, which ironically came to be because the Germans' first set of plans were discovered. They would have lost with their initial, less risky plan.
Only compared to the French. Poland was no match. And the Red Army was only a match in terms of numbers and materiel, which were quickly captured and destroyed due to superior leadership and morale.
No... that is General Plan Ost and Hitler's stated intention. Apparently, that's the "official narrative".
Obviously, the media lies. Compare that to Hitler, and he had gone beyond historic German lands even before Poland, with the occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Germany didn't fight a war against just Poland. Besides without the Soviet invasion the Poland campaign could've easily ended in disaster as Germany didn't have enough reserves for a pro-longed war.
Then you should be able to produce a document proving just that. Besides Generalplan Ost which was never made a policy and was thought up by a singular individual named Hans Ehlich who had no real influence.
Germany was invited. Czechoslovakia was armed to the teeth but not a single shot was fired. Czechoslovakia was never annexed. Its people were never conscripted.
You can pretend it was an invasion of conquest but it wasn't. Czechoslovakia was a failed, artificial nation from the very beginning. That's why it doesn't exist anymore. The only purpose in its creation was to be a thorn in Germanys side.
There would be no prolonged war. The Polish army was fairly easily smashed.
The brutalization of the population of the Soviet Union, and of Poland for that matter, should be sufficient.
Oh come on. Czechoslovakia was betrayed by the cowardly western powers, which is why it did not fight a pointless war. It certainly did not 'invite' the Germans. Nor is annexation any sort of argument. It didn't annex most of Poland either, yet atrocities were rife.
What are you talking about? It actually exists in exactly the same form, except as two states. Czechs exist, and Slovaks exist. Czechoslovakia was no failed state, in fact, it was one of the most successful eastern European states - as you stated, it was armed to the teeth.
Nobody expected Poland to win the Polish-Soviet war and yet they did. Unexpected things happen in war. Don't dismiss the fighting spirit of the Polish so easily.
Especially the Katyn massacre is very telling. I trust you know what I'm getting at.
Yes, of course I'm saying nothing ever bad happened. (/s in case it isn't obvious)
Just as the western powers decided to create Czechoslovakia they decided to un-create it. That's how it goes with such nations.
Large parts of the population actually did. After all the Sudetenland was predominantly German. The Slovaks were also more happy than sad about it. They became an independent nation. Now obviously the Czechs were not all too happy about it as they've dominated Czechoslovakia up until this point.
You could say in the end Germany just retook historic German territory and righted some wrongs of the Treaty of Versailles.
Either way you look at it the entire ordeal was sliiiiightly more complex than "HITLER WANTS MORE TERRITORY!"
Czechoslovakia had its own share of serious ethnic troubles. That's the very reason why the entire thing even happened.
That's quite the funny statement.
But anyway the Czech and Slovak republic of today have little bearing on Czechoslovakia of pre WW2. Things change in over a century.