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"Most Germans think the war is stupidly unnecessary and that the British were sticking their noses
into what is none of their business. 'Just think of it!' they exclaim. Here we are so busy making over
our country, and now we have to lay aside our fine construction plans to go and fight it out with those
damned Englishmen.'" - Lothrop Stoddard, American philosopher, Daily Mail, January 1st 1940
GERMAN/POLISH FRIENDSHIP
"On the contrary, he (Hitler) wanted to remove Danzig as an obstacle, so that he could strengthen
their friendship (between Germany and Poland)." - Lipski, Polish Ambassador to Berlin
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WAR. POLAND PROVIDES THE EXCUSE
SIR BASIL LIDDELL HART, Military Historian.
"The western allies entered that war with a two-fold object. The immediate purpose was to fulfil their
promise to preserve the independence of Poland. The ultimate purpose was to remove a potential
menace to themselves, and thus ensure their own security. In the outcome they failed in both
purposes. Not only did they fail to prevent Poland from being overcome in the first place, and
partitioned between Germany and Russia, but after six years of war which ended in apparent victory
they were forced to acquiesce in Russia's domination of Poland - abandoning their pledges to the
Poles who had fought on their side.
At the same time all the effort that was put into the destruction of Hitlerite Germany resulted in a
Europe so devastated and weakened in the process that its power of resistance was much reduced in
the face of a fresh and greater menace - and Britain, in common with her European neighbours, had
become a poor dependent of the United States."
- Sir. Basil Liddell Hart, The History of the Second World War
It is important to remember that the 'menace' that Germany presented was solely that of a trade
competitor. At no time did Hitler's Germany offer a military or territorial threat to Britain, but on the
contrary offered to provide whatever assistance that might be required to maintain the British Empire.
On the other hand, the 'fresh and greater menace' that the British Government had conspired and allied
itself with to 'devastate Europe', undeniably had as its aim the overthrow and occupation by whatever
means of Great Britain and the destruction of its Empire.
THE POLISH PATSY
On February 1st, 1945 Poland's General Anders reproached Winston Churchill for not adhering to the
English guarantees:
"What shall we say to our soldiers? Soviet Russia is now confiscating half of our territory and wants
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