What could've they realistically have done to prevent annihilation?
>>18412271Stop antagonizing Czechoslovakia over a few villages.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-OlzaHave a strong alliance with them and prevent the annexation of the Sudetenland (this may trigger a Germany vs. Poland+Czechia+France war, which Germany would 100% lose).
>>18412309the poles conspired with the Magyars to partition Slovakia as well.
>>18412271Return stolen territory from Germany, Lithuania, Czechia (Slavic Australia-Hungary), Belarus, and Ukraine
>>18412309>Germany would 100% loseThan Soviet join German side
>>18412309There are inherent problems with this scenario. Germany+Austria=75 million people. Poland and Czechoslovakia=40 million. The frontline also favours the Germans, they have a gap around the sudetes from the South and Poland's western borders are indefensible, all the complicated part for the Germans is that they have East Prussia, but the Poles don't have even the kernel of navy needed to blockade it, so if anything it's just making it easier to cut Poles off from the sea. German minorities would perhaps help the invasion too.At the same time what has to be taken into account is a different pace of rearmament between the western allies and Germany. Germans started strong but they were running out of breath by 1940, for the French 1938 was their worst year as far as production of war material went while they were out producing Germans in everything but bombers in the first few months of 1940. This was part of the Anglo-French calculus during the Munich crisis, they knew long term they will outgrow the Germans, but they needed to keep some good distraction in the east, by 1939 they ran out of such distractions, Poland was the only one left.As for the OP. I think there's not much that could've been done other than not trying to even hold the border as much as cover a general retreat. Have more units located in the rear so they can "catch" any mobile German units that get through and try to form a sort of last stand position between Bug and San in the east and Vistula in the west. It would suck and it wasn't winnable but what they had to do is to win time for the French and the British to gain air superiority in the west. They held long enough that the war in the west had to wait through the winter, maybe a couple of months more would've given the edge to prevent the disaster(which was a really, really close call)
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>>18412309Germany won that war tho
>>18412309>antagonizing CzechoslovakiaDuring the Russian Civil War, the Czech Legion refused to send trains to evacuate Polish forces, leaving them (as well as women and children) to be slaughtered by the Bolsheviks, then during the Polish-Soviet War, the Czechs seized traditional Polish territory overwhelmingly populated by Poles, then afterward formed an alliance with the Soviets including a "defense pact" that would have had Soviets troops invading Poland to get to Czechoslovakia and during the interwar period, the Czechs thought they could sell weapons and war supplies to anybody and everybody and somehow sit out the coming war while counting their shekels.But yeah, it was the Poles "antagonizing" the Czechs...
>>18412727pretty much on spotby 1938, Germany was already able to beat the combined forces of France, Poland and Czechoslovakia, ofc if the war happend then WW2 would be much harder for Germany as they don't start with free Czech industry (and they would lose eventually too) the last chance to prevent WW2 would be the preventive war of 1935 to take Hitler down, but that would be hard to pull of because before Kristallnacht and 1939 agression on Czechoslovakia there were pretty strong pro german sympathies in the West and in the world general
>>18412758no it did not you moron
They should have spread their asshole wider.
>>18413211There was a way to get stalemate in the west in 1940 which would probably end in German defeat within a year or two, but a literal series of (un)fortunate events happened(Gamelin predicted what the German staff would do and the German staff wanted to do it but Hitler was fighting them for months and got his way).
>>18412271>What could've they realistically have done to prevent annihilation?I'll be the first to state the obvious - join forces with Germany. >the UK has no basis for declaring war on Germany>France, with the assist of Spain and Italy, can be bullied into neutrality >It's the entire Axis vs. the Soviets (Japan might also join, since they treated Ribbentrop-Molotov as a slap in the face after signing the Anti-Comintern pact)>the USSR crumbles and falls apart>the rest is unknown, depending on what the Burgers will do>but Poland is surely not anihilated
>>18413335What makes you think the Nazis wouldn't turn on Poland with their troops on their territory?
>>18413343Why would they? The main objective was destroying the Soviets. Risking it all in the name of, I don't even know what, would be nonsensical. >after the warIf they turn on Poland, UK, France and the US immediately smells German blood, enticing them to attack.
>>18413353>The main objective was destroying the Soviets.You're forgetting colonizing the East, which they began right after they had invaded Poland in real life.
>>18413353I thought their main objective was preventing poles from putting all the germans into polish death camps?
>>18413353>Why would they?The fact that they literally invaded Poland in the first place suggests that they wanted Poland out of the picture or at the very least under their control.
>>18412309>Stop antagonizing Czechoslovakia over a few villages>>18412343>the poles conspired with the Magyars to partition Slovakia as well.You are spouting putinist revisionnism that was debunked.
