Yes, all of Eastern and Central Europe ows a lot to the Soviet Union for changing borders and uprooting millions of people. They made sure that Poland’s, Germany’s, Hungary’s, Rumania’s, Finland’s, etc., etc. territories are going to be ‘changing’ and/or ‘disputed’ for many, many years to come..
So, when Soviet influence ended Poland willingly returned the former German territory…
…or are Polish grievances only about the territory they lost due to ‘betrayal’ and Soviet oppression?
Well, the main difference is that in those 1939 weeks vast majority of the German army was in Poland, not facing France.
And the whole of the British Army was in Britain…they’d have been lucky to get to France before Poland fell.
Dashing the RAF against the Ruhr in 1939 would only have speeded the (later) collapse of France, could have led to the loss of the BEF and even cost us the Battle of Britain…..depending on what forces were committed.
It’s nice to think that things would have gone Britain’s way but look at Norway, how well did we do there? I’d say there was far more chance of victory in Norway due to the size of German forces and the geography of the situation.
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