15 avr. 1938 - The German invasion of Poland

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Within a month after the Munich Agreement, a new political crisis occurred when the German Reich launched a false flag operation against one of their own radio facilities that were stationed on the German-Polish border at Gleiwitz, German troops disguised as Polish soldiers attacked the facility before being pushed back.

This had followed with weeks of Germany demanding Poland to give them the right to access to build an extraterritorial roadway to connect East Prussia with German Pomerania while running through the Polish Corridor, as well as return the German citizens there to German sovereignty.

The Second Polish Republic refused these demands.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, wish to make peace with Germany again but they would be too late...

As the jackboots of Germany stormed through Austria and the Sudetenland, they will do the same.
Germany would falsely accuse Poland of being the aggressor and Germany as the victim.
Hitler claims that Poland attacked Germany - Hitlersuggested that Poland fears German dominance in Europe and chose to surprise attack the Reich which forced Germany to intervene.

This action made Europe panic; in France, Chautemps' Government collapsed and political instability caused the state paralyzed and made them unable to create a coordinated response to the German Invasion of Poland.

The United Kingdom, still under the impression and belief that Germany had been brought to rest offered no security guarantees to the Polish Republic, rendering the Polish government helpless to combat the sudden aggression from Germany.
The invasion shocked the Polish who barely didn't get a day's notice which resulted in many Polish soldiers on the Soviet border, being unable to help support their western front.

This war would be known as the Invasion of Poland by the Western Powers but in German, it is known as the 1938 Defensive War and in Polish, the April Campaign.

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