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Anonymous10/23/26, 04:42No.18753133Why did Hitler invade Poland?
Seems like it didn't work out for him. Did he just think the Anglos & French were bluffing? He might've won if he was just fighting the USSR instead of all three (and the US) at once.

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Anon10/23/26, 04:45No.18753136
Lebensraum, under the justification of liberating the Germanic Poles from Bolshevism
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Anon10/23/26, 06:45No.18753201
He got into power with a populist agenda of making Germany great at last so he had to follow up with this. He became hostage of his random musings.
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Anon10/24/26, 00:22No.18754113
Every twelve year old asks this question, the real question is why Britain and France were too chickenshit to declare war on the USSR when it invaded all of Eastern Europe.
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Anon10/24/26, 00:24No.18754116
Polish GODS always rape germutt apes

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Anon10/24/26, 00:25No.18754118
Jewish communists were genociding ethnic germans, so the Nazis did the only righteous thing they could do, liberate the polish people from the wickedness of jews. Jews, as you should know, seek to murder all of God's children except themselves, to prune the tree, and become by default the only ones capable of inheriting the throne of heaven.
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Anon10/24/26, 00:29No.18754121
For thousands of years, Poles have been defending europe from savage german orcs
>Polish heroes raped germs in 1466
>Polish warriors annihilated germs in 1521
>Polish knights destroyed germs in 1806
>Polish crusaders obliterated germs in 1919
>Polish demigods exterminated germs in 1945

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Anon10/24/26, 08:59No.18754457
>Did he just think the Anglos & French were bluffing?
Yes, Ribbentrop convinced him they wouldn't do anything, there's a funny convo these 2 have once France and UK declare war on Germany
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Anon10/24/26, 09:51No.18754502
>Seems like it didn't work out for him.
Depends on your perspective. The Polish campaign itself was a remarkable success since the Wehrmacht was still at that point largely untested (aside from a few bombing sorties in Spain).>Did he just think the Anglos & French were bluffing?
More specifically: He thought Britain was bluffing, since Britain had not done anything during military actions against Ethiopia, Manchuria, Rhineland, Spain, China, Austria, Sudetenland, Albania, Czechia, Klaipeda.
The idea was that France wont make a move without Britain, and that Britain wouldnt risk a major war over Poland. The Polish campaign itself was expected to be short and relatively mild.>He might've won if he was just fighting the USSR instead of all three (and the US) at once.
Extremely debateable.
A better question would be whether he would have attacked the USSR at all if Germany hadnt been at war with Britain.
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Anon10/24/26, 13:37No.18754707
>Seems like it didn't work out for him.
at the time they had achieved all their objectives, the war 1939-40 was going great for Germany
>Did he just think the Anglos & French were bluffing?
yes
>He might've won if he was just fighting the USSR instead of all three (and the US) at once.
you're looking at it with a lot of hindsight, Poland was knocked out and the Soviets took half, they wouldn't be at war for another 2 years
the US was also a couple years off from meaningfully contributing and france had capitulated- there was never a purposeful notion of "fighting everyone at once"