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To: PzLdr

Yup.

The Hungarians continued as German allies till late in the war.

The Poles didn’t have that option, for reasons of geography and Nazi racial ideology. It’s quite possible the Polish government would have been glad to collaborate if they’d been allowed to. They might have been quite happy to invade USSR along with Germany, as the Romanians and Hungarians, among others, did.


45 posted on 03/19/2008 7:24:59 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Sherman Logan

Actually, the Germans offered the Poles a junior partnership in the Axis. The price? The Corridor, Danzig, and free passage for the Wehrmacht to the Soviet Union.

Whether or not the Poles would have considered it, Chamberlain’s [and France’s] guarantee of their borders stiffened their spine, and they turned the Germans down. Bad miscalculation on their part.


46 posted on 03/19/2008 7:50:36 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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