In regards to Poland, the Poles behaved shamefully in regard to Czechoslovakia. They were only to eager to throw the Czechs under Hitler’s bus, and grabbed an insignificant part of Czechoslovakia as payment for their complicity. How short-sighted of them. German occupation of Czechoslovakia deprived Poland of the one ally that could have provided real assistance when their number inevitably came up. And, it allowed the Germans a longer flank to enter Poland from the south, which they used to Poland’s disadvantage later.
As for the ads, I loved the ad for the radio. Oh, the good old days, when home electronics were as big as a dresser or end table, and accordingly they were built as furniture. My great-uncle had a radio like that, which I acquired from his estate. The radio was built by RCA in 1937. Up to about 1990, it still worked, and picked up the BBC World Service. Since then, I’ve disposed of the electronic “guts.” The rest of it is still a beautiful piece of furniture, and is sitting in my garage waiting for me to decide what I’m going to make out of it.
Jumping ahead of the story just a bit:
1. Germany occupies the Sudetenland (autumn 1938)
2. Hungary occupies border areas (southern third of Slovakia and southern Carpathian Ruthenia) with Hungarian minorities
3. Carpathian Ruthenia received autonomy (autumn 1938).
4. Poland occupies areas Cieszyn Silesia with Polish minority (autumn 1938).
5. In March 1939 the remaining Czech territories becomes the German satellite, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
6. From remainder Czechoslovakia Slovakia is created, becoming another German satellite.
From Wikipedia
The Polish government’s side of the story is that the Czechoslovak government behaved shamefully when they seized disputed territory, where Poles outnumbered Czechs, in 1919, when Poland was at war in the East. Neither act was praiseworthy.