December 22, 2016 Thursday
Bedtime Story
The Western Allies Jilt Poland - A Tragedy of Devastating Proportions
Both United Kingdom and France were trying to woo both Hitler and
Stalin in an attempt to stop the carnage that would be unleashed if both these
army were set loose over Europe.
In 1938, in order to appease Hitler, the British Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain betrayed Czechoslovakia (by agreeing to the annexation of
Sudetenland), deeply upsetting and marginalizing Soviet Union and signed the
Munich Agreement.
United Kingdom was willing to sacrifice all principles and all
allies if it would avert war with the Weimar Republic.
Hitler was a master at signing agreements and renegading on them.
After seeing the rift between France and United Kingdom against
Soviet Union, Hitler rushed his foreign minister to Moscow where on August 23,
1939 the Nazi-Soviet Pact was signed.
Just a week after signing the pact, on September 1, 1939 Germany
invaded Poland.
Then a mere 17 days later after Soviet Union ended its hostilities
with Japan, the Red Army invaded Poland from the east.
Hitler was not so sure about dealing with Czechoslovakia earlier
but with Poland he was dead sure:
“The object of the war is…physically to destroy the enemy.
This is why I have prepared, for the moment only in the East, my
‘Death’s Head’ formations with orders to kill without pity or mercy all men,
women and children of Polish descent or language.
Only in this way can we obtain the living space we need”.
This was Hitler’s roar to the military commanders at Obersalzberg
just a week before the invasion of Poland.
That was the end of the short freedom that Poland had enjoyed in
the brief interbellum.
Poland was clearly abandoned, betrayed and sacrificed at the altar
of inaction by its Western allies.
The cost of this mistake would be beyond any redemption.
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Good night and my fellow cousin ape.
Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is Professor
Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:
For edutainment and English education of your children, I
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September 01, 1939 German tanks Invading Poland
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