September 1, 1939
In September 2015, we will celebrate the 86th anniversary of the tragic anniversary for Poland in September 1939.
Two dates on 1 and 17 September 1939, the drama of those days entered permanently into the past of Poland.
But on 1 and 17 September 1939 the drama of Poland had only just begun.
Looking at the statistical improvement of planet War II victims for individual countries, Poland suffered the largest, unproportional losses in victims. In this unfortunate table, we are number one.
For example, Poland - the state of the population before the start of the war - 34 million 849 thousand,
Total losses - 16.07%,
soldiers - 160 thousand,
civilians - 2 million 440 thousand,
Jews in the Holocaust - 3 million,
a full of 5 million 600 000 citizens.
France - the state of the population before the beginning of the war of 41 million 700 thousand,
Total losses - 1,35%,
soldiers - 212 thousand,
civilians - 267,000,
Jews in the Holocaust - 83 thousand,
a full of 562,000 victims.
Germany - the state of the population before the start of the war - 69 million 623 thousand,
Total losses - 10.47%,
Soldiers - 4 million 633 thousand,
civilians - 270 thousand,
Jews in the Holocaust - 160 thousand
Total victims - 7 million 493 thousand
USSR - the state of the population before the start of the war - 168 million 500 thousand,
Total losses - 13,71 %
soldiers - 12 million 500 thousand,
civilians - 10 million 600 thousand,
Jews in the Holocaust - 1 million,
total victims - 24 million 100 thousand.
GENESIS OF THE GLOBAL WAR II
Three years before the outbreak of the war, in 1936, the 3rd Reich troops, contrary to the Treaty of Versailles agreements, entered the demilitarized region of Rhineland. The German commanders, aware of the possible failure to face a strong counteroffensive from the Allies, had no reason to fear their regular protest alternatively of actual action. In the same year, a revolution broke out in Spain, headed by General Franco, supported by Italian and then besides German fascists, for whom specified investment of people and equipment meant valuable experience before the war was about to start.
In 1938, under the pretext of "preventing order and order," the German army entered Austria, where earlier, by Hitler's command, 1 of the chancellors was murdered, and the another was mentioned as a man told on the side of the 3rd Reich. Under an equally apparent pretext of defending the persecuted German minority, Hitler joined the Czech Sudetes.
In view of the Allied's readiness to put up armed resistance, Hitler at the Munich conference (September 1938) declared that the annexation of the Sudetes would end his territorial expansion in Europe.
Six months later, the Czech Republic and Moravia were annexed to the 3rd Reich; the established puppet Slovak state remained under German control. Hitler's aggressive policy towards Central European states was a clear message of his intentions towards the Slavic nations inhabiting them (remaining in the light of racist explanation a species of subhumans), which were to supply Things of inexpensive labour from now on. The passive position of the Allied, who were confined to protest only, favoured German politics.
The offensive from the 3rd Reich to the Polish state seemed apparent after the annexations already made. According to German nationalists, the existence of the Polish state was a mistake, committed erstwhile signing the Treaty of Versailles.
Independence of Poland. Molotov called her “a monstrous bastard of the Treaty of Versailles”. Stalin spoke of it as “o, sorry for the expression - state”, and for J.M. Keynes, the theorist of modern capitalism was “an economical impossibility whose only manufacture is judaic food.”
Lewis Namler thought she was "pathological," E. H. Carr called her a "farce". David Lloyd George spoke of the "defeat of history", claiming that "she gained freedom not by her own effort, but by human blood" and that she was a country that "imposed to another nations the same tyranny" that he himself endured over the years.
Poland said, "is drunk with the young wine of freedom which the Allies have given it," and "considers itself an irresistible charming lover of Central Europe".
In 1919, Lloyd George said that “he would have given the monkey a watch alternatively than the advanced Silesia Poland”, and in 1939 he declared that “Poland deserved its fate.”
Adolf Hitler called it “a state that grew out of the blood of countless regiments, a state built on strength and ruled by the batons of police and soldiers, a ridiculous state in which sadistic beasts vent their perverse instincts, artificially conceived state, a favourite peaceful dog of Western democracy, which cannot at all be considered a cultural nation, alleged state, without any national, historical, cultural or moral basis.”
The convergence of these feelings, as well as the way they are expressed, is obvious. seldom - if always - a country which has just gained independency has been the subject of equally krasomous and equally unjustified insults.
Rarely - if always - were British liberals equally careless in formulating opinions, or choosing companionship. erstwhile planet War I broke out, 1 of Józef Piłsudski's co-workers wrote: "No 1 in the planet wants Poland".
British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith spoke shortly before the war to an outstanding pianist and advocate for the Polish origin in the West of Ignacy Paderewski: "There is no hope for the future for the Fatherland of the Lord."
This meant that at the time of the war, the Polish case was considered in Europe an interior problem for Russian invaders, who, with France and the United Kingdom, were in the entent camp and fighting this alliance of central states - Germany and Austro-Hungarian. Regardless of this, the commanding forces fighting with each another on the lands of the Polish army of possessive states wanted to guarantee the favour of Poles.
The Russians issued a call in which they appealed to the eternal, supposedly common conflict between Slavs and Germanic aggression and promised to unite Polish lands "free in faith, language and self-government". The declaration did not have the slightest value, and was issued by uncle Tsar Mikołaj II - Mikołajewicz - chief of the Russian army.
Even more general promises were made by central states, limited to calling for a fight against east barbarism. The leaders of the 2 main Polish political camps were aware of this hard situation, of which the national democratic 1 represented the anti-German orientation and the irredentist 1 was anti-Russian.
Less than a period after the Munich deal, in October 1938, Germany requested approval to include the Free City of Gdańsk and to build an extraterritorial railway and road line by Polish Pomerania.
These demands were repeated twice, in January 1939 and 2 months later, after the Germans entered the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda. German propaganda accused Poland of stalking German minorities in its country.
The governments of large Britain and then France gave Poland a safety warrant and secured military aid, while in England alone the opponents of the war protested against attempts to militarize the country.
In April 1939, fascist Italy attacked Albania and concluded the alleged Iron Pact with the 3rd Reich. The fast normalization of German-Soviet relations, after the nomination of Molotov for the position of the Minister of abroad Affairs of the USSR, resulted in the signing of a "non-aggression pact" (the alleged Ribbentrop Pact - Molotov), containing a secret clause on the division of spheres of influence in Poland. Despite the aid guarantees from the Allies, the Second Republic was thus sentenced to destruction.
The contribution of Polish scientists to the fight against the future occupier, and the surprise for the Nazis themselves, was to hand over France and the UK, in August 1939, the "Enigma" machines, utilizing which intelligence services could decipher secret German reports.
In 1939 the Polish state inhabited 35 million people, most of whom worked in agriculture. The longest, almost unarmed borders were 2,000 km along Germany to the west and 1500 km along the russian Union to the east. The economy has not yet been rebuilt from erstwhile wars, with a clear deficiency of developed dense industry, hence the Polish army was poorly equipped. The danger hanging over the country forced them to prepare for the German offensive. On 1 September 1939, erstwhile German troops entered Poland, the universal mobilization was not yet completed. The war has begun.
"GENEZE OF THE detonation of planet War II" ALEKSANDER SHUMANSKI
SECTOR PENELOPA 2018
