Czechoslovakia stole Teschen (Cieszyn) back in 1919, the Poles rightfully stole it back in 1938. Don't play the Czechs as being completely innocent here. I don't, not least since my knowledge of history in that area is not that good, impressive to find an American? T that knows the pre WW2 history this well. But in the case of Poland, the lessons learned should be that if you sleep with a serpent you should expect to get bitten. I don’t like the modern history teaching that constantly display Poland as an innocent victim of an aggressive Germany. The Poles played the same game, but they lost much earlier.
". I don’t like the modern history teaching that constantly display Poland as an innocent victim of an aggressive Germany. The Poles played the same game, but they lost much earlier."
Do a little study on the ("earlier") maps found here and come back and tell me again who was the serpent and which were the innocent and in which era.
http://stabi.hs-bremerhaven.de/whkmla/histatlas/eceurope/haxpoland.html
Revisionist history always seeks to lay blame with whoever is the weakest or least PC in that era so you want to kick Poland because Germany invaded Poland? Interesting indeed, line up with or behind some Jews (see the beginning of the thread) and a whole bunch of others who refuse to see the beam in their own eyes.
In view of the fact that Poland has now aligned with US perhaps your admonition ("in the case of Poland, the lessons learned should be that if you sleep with a serpent you should expect to get bitten") should be trumpeted at them immediately (since Germany cannot possibly be a serpent that bites).