[ken21]

i never did like pat pukannan

and this substantiates it.

[A. Morgan]

GAS BAG PAT ALERT!

[PzLdr]

I don't like Buchanan myself, but he's not totally off base here. Hitler wanted more than Danzig from the Poles. He wanted the Corridor as well, plus free passage through Poland for the German troops to attack the U.S.S.R.

In return, he offered them a junior partnership in the Axis, with further territorial gains out of Czechoslovakia, and possibly in the East [Poland had gotten a piece of the Czechs after the Germans occupied the rest of the country in early 1939 [as did Hungary]. He also [for what it's worth] guaranteed them their territorial integrity and independence [and Hitler never betrayed a country allied to him until they did him].

It was the British -French guarantee to Poland that stiffened their resolve to refuse the offer, to their later detriment.

[GeronL]

I liked him for a few months in 1992 I think.