Nazi Germany (30 janv. 1933 – 8 mai 1945)

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While some dissident elements within the Wiemar Republic had long sought to annex territories belonging to Poland, it was Hitler's own idea and not a realization of any pre-1933 Weimar plans to invade and partition Poland, annex Bohemia and Austria, and create satellite or puppet states economically subordinate to Germany. As a part of this long-term policy, Hitler at first pursues a policy of rapprochement with Poland, trying to improve opinion on Germany, culminating in the German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact of 1934.
Earlier, Hitler's foreign policy worked to weaken ties between Poland and France and attempted to maneuver Poland into the Anti-Comintern Pact, forming a cooperative front against the Soviet Union. Poland would be granted territory to its northeast in Ukraine and Belarus if it agreed to wage war against the Soviet Union, but the concessions the Poles were expected to make meant that their homeland would become largely dependent on Germany, functioning little more than a client state. The Poles feared that their independence would eventually be threatened altogether; historically Hitler had already denounced the right of independence to Poland in 1930, writing that Poles and Czechs were a "rabble not worth a penny more than the inhabitants of Sudan or India. How can they demand the rights of independent states?"

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