(December 31, 2019 at 12:24 pm)Editz Wrote: Thanks a lot GS, plenty to get me started there! Just reading the History Channel timeline of WW2 from your first link - so much there, needs proper investment of time to digest at all - but this stood out RE this topic, that two days after the NAP was signed by USSR/Nazis - August 25, 1939 - Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty - quite the opposite, then....but not enough, clearly.
Britain blatantly betrayed security assurance given to Czechoslovakia only 11 month before. As a result hitler believed the British and french had the courage of “worms” when confronted with his hard line. So Hitler has reason to believe british and French assistances guaranty would be worth as little this time as it did 11 month ago. The treaty with Stalin, in hitler’s mind, made it certain the British and french would be too cowered to interfere while he invaded Poland because Germany’s back is now covered and the cowardly Anglo french would have no prospect of help form the East in any war with Germany.
