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Originally posted by BIHOTZ
reply to post by SpearMint
I have read, and no I am not excusing Hitler....the European dictator.....I am simply stating that since he pissed off other Europeans by taking back his countries land
en.wikipedia.org...
when the Treaty of Versailles was signed, which recreated the nation of Poland. From the defeated German Empire. Poland received the following:
Most of the Prussian province of Posen was granted to Poland. This territory had already been taken over by local Polish insurgents during the Great Poland Uprising of 1918–1919.
70% of West Prussia was given to Poland to provide free access to the sea, along with a 10% German minority, creating the Polish corridor.
The east part of Upper Silesia was awarded to Poland after a plebiscite. Sixty percent of residents voted for German citizenship, and 40 percent for Poland; as a result the area was divided.
To provide a Polish railway line connecting Gdańsk and Warsaw, the area of Działdowo (Soldau) in East Prussia was granted to the new Polish state.
From the eastern part of West Prussia and the southern part of East Prussia in the provinces of Warmia and Masuria, a small area was granted to Poland.
www.britannica.com...
The Polish Corridor was the issue, or at least the apparent pretext, over which World War II began. In March 1939 the Nazi dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler, demanded the cession of Danzig and the creation of extraterritorial German highways across the corridor connecting to East Prussia. Poland refused these demands and secured French and British guarantees against German aggression. In September Germany invaded Poland, thus beginning the war.
uk.answers.yahoo.com...
It is called The 1939 Danzig Massacres
'Bloody Sunday of Bromberg'
Why Hitler Invaded Poland
Polish atrocities against Germany that led to the German defensive Invasion in 1939 were many. This was one such atrocity.
On one day alone - Polish Jews, under the protection of the Polish Army, attack a small German town and viciously kill 5500 Germans. Polish Jews were confident they would win against Germany and went on a rampage of ' Blood Lust ' that was unmatched. Groups of Bolsheviks attacked from Ponz, Lotz and Warsaw approached the town and started killing the farmers on the outskirts. Children were nailed to barns, women were raped and hacked to death with axes, men were executed where they stood.
The 1939 Danzig Massacres
The Polish Bolsheviks kill 58,000 German Nationals in the Danzig corridor In the months leading up to the German invasion the Polish Army and independent Bolshevik units had been slaughtering German nationals in the Danzig corridor. Mass killings of thousands of civilian ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) by both civilian and Russian NDVK Jews, who were confident that Poland would quickly defeat Germany. Many apparently expected to take possession of German farms and businesses. An estimated 58,000 German civilians lost their lives in the massacres carried out prior to the 1939 invasion.
Originally posted by BIHOTZ
reply to post by SpearMint
you throw doubt and insult around in a condescending tone, but not the correction you so arrogantly boast to have a superior concept of....
Originally posted by BIHOTZ
reply to post by SpearMint
yet you correct me....why do you care about this thread then.....?
I know as much as I cared to learn.
was that a copout I detected?
Originally posted by BIHOTZ
reply to post by SpearMint
they did nothing to stop the war....
Originally posted by SpearMint
reply to post by BIHOTZ
Now you're making excuses for Hitler? There are no excuses, he was an evil man and the blame is on him (And those that helped him).
More confused about your angle now, you're lumping Europe together and then defending certain parts.
You also need to read up on the history related to WW2.edit on 24-10-2012 by SpearMint because: (no reason given)edit on 24-10-2012 by SpearMint because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by BIHOTZ
reply to post by SpearMint
No it is about Europe using the US to fight her battles, and then sitting back and letting us get the back lash...
WW2 was one such example...
they did nothing to stop the war....never stepped in to protect German citizens being abused after ww1. something they knew perfectly well was happening yet they said "oh Hitler is invading out of nowhere"
but they did come to the US and beg us to go to war with Germany for them.....
had they put half as much effort in the decades before the war started to not make a dire situation for Germany, they could have avoided another world war...but they loved the Versailles treaty with all the profit it entailed for them.....
so they played dumb when it was their obligation to protect German citizens from mass murder...and they turned a blind eye, causing a bad situation to get worse....for everyone....
oh and be direct or else you run the risk of misleading and filling my head with BS....edit on 24-10-2012 by BIHOTZ because: (no reason given)
The Outrageous Treaty of Versailles
The official treaty that ended the war was the Treaty of Versailles, where representatives of all sides sat down at a conference table and wrote the treaty.
Several interesting personalities attended these meetings. In the British delegation was the British economist John Maynard Keynes, and representing the American banking interests was Paul Warburg, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. His brother. Max, the head of the German banking firm of M.M. Warburg and Company, of Hamburg, Germany, and who "was not only in charge of Germany's finances but was a leader of the German espionage system" was there as a representative of the German government.
The Treaty was written to end the war, but another delegate to the conference. Lord Curzon of England, the British Foreign Secretary, saw through what the actual intent was and declared: "This is no peace; this is only a truce for twenty years." Lord Curzon felt that the terms of the Treaty were setting the stage for a second world war, and he correctly predicted the year it would start: 1939.
Lord Curzon was indeed a prophet: he picked the actual year that World War II would start!
One of the planks of the Treaty called for large amounts of war reparations to be paid to the victorious nations by the German government. This plank of the Treaty alone caused more grief in the German nation than any other and precipitated three events:
The "hyperinflation" of the German mark between 1920 and 1923;
The destruction of the middle class in Germany; and
The bringing to power of someone who could end the inflation: a dictator like Adolf Hitler.
This plank was written by John Foster Dulles, one of the founders of the Council on Foreign Relations, and later the Secretary of State to President Dwight Eisenhower.
Even John Maynard Keynes became concerned about the Treaty. He wrote: "The peace is outrageous and impossible and can bring nothing but misfortune behind it".
In addition to writing the Treaty of Versailles, the nations who were victorious in the war also wrote the Charter of the League of Nations, which was ratified on January 10, 1920, and signed by President Wilson for the American government. Wilson brought the treaty back to the United States and asked the Senate to ratify it The Senate, remembering George Washington's advice to avoid foreign entanglements and reflecting the views of the American people who did not wish to enter the League, refused to ratify the treaty. President Wilson was not pleased, possibly because he saw himself, as Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was quick to point out, as: "... a future President of the world."
It is now apparent that Wilson intended to head up the world government the war was fought to give the world, and he became depressed when the Treaty was not ratified. Imagine the disappointment of one who had come so close to becoming the very first President of the World, only to have it taken away by the actions of the Senate of the United States. Imagine the sense of incredible power that Wilson must have felt, thinking he would become the very first individual in the history of mankind to rule the world. Others had tried and failed, but Wilson was confident that he would succeed.
But the American people, expressing their displeasure through the Senate, would not let him.