[HenpeckedCon]

Poland was invaded because Hitler wanted “lebensraum” for the “arischen Herrenrasse.” Danzig was always just an excuse to invade. Hitler believed the Poles to be untermenschen barely above Jews so anything other than an abject surrender by the Poles would have been useless in preventing war.

[PzLdr]

Hitler wanted Russia. The Poles had the misfortune to be in the way. Did he consider them untermennsch? Yes. But he did offer them a deal with the devil so he could get his army and air force free passage [and support]to the border of the U.S.S.R.