Polish sovereignty obviously wasn't the casus belli. It was however a clever excuse to declare war on Germany a country envied by many within the British elites for long already. If those in Britain that pushed for a guarantee to Poland really cared about Polish sovereignty, they'd have advised the Poles to come to terms with their most important neighbor, Germany.Stubble wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2025 6:43 am When the casus belli of Polish Sovereignty fell to the wayside, I suppose it was best to kick back on the propaganda of the holocaust to paint the German people as evil and deserving of the firebombing and dam busting. All the better that in the end the claims centered behind the iron curtain because when the music finally stopped, the western allies could say, 'wasn't me, I didn't do it'.
Who could imagine that the music would play this long. We still haven't reached the end of the song.
I fully expect some heart string pulling movie about a crippled violinist being gassed by evil nazis underneath Auschwitz Birkenau next year. And I expect it to win all of the awards, like the movie 'ass' from idiocracy.
The de facto blank cheque to Poland was almost a guarantee to get a war between Poland and Germany going.
That ordinary folks would realize that they were taken for a ride by their own elites was a real risk at the time, but one that could be eased. Simply paint the enemy 'Germany' in the most gruesome, despicable light possible and this would shut up any further questions.
For Poland the issue was similar. They maltreated their own minorities in the interbellum period including millions of Germans that were still living on the East German territory they gained after WW1. Many of those were murdered around and after September 1. !939 And afterwards the largest portion of Eastern Germans were either murdered or expelled directly after WW1. Those were more than 12 million in rump Germany afterwards, which were naturally quite bitter about this. So making their own folks believe in the 'evil German' narrative and as bonus making Germans themselves believe in it is helpful to Polish, too.
The key is however that people believe that 'the Germans themselves admitted to all this, so it must be true'. This doesn't specify of course and it also ignores how those 'admissions' came about decades after WW2. It ignores the German mass neurosis, too. It serves as a joker argument nevertheless.
To believe all this one needs to ignore the campaign character of all this and dismiss pointing this out as 'conspiracy theories'.... Something that has become the blanket dismissal in the 2020s. That the Holocaust Narrative in fact all the anti-German accusations are literally conspiracy theories is however ignored.
