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A progressively escalating war that began in 1939 between Great Britain and France on one side and the German Reich on the other.
Origins & Causes
1920
20.11.1920, Saturday: The German Reich (Weimar Republic) delivered a complaint to the polish foreign ministry, in which it claims that the Republic of Poland (Second Republic) violated the Minority protection protocol. The complaint included comprehensive enumerations of offenses against ethnic Germans on the basis of their ancestry in the shape of arrests, insults, harassment, sexual assault, extortion and humiliation.[1] In addition the text names border violations by polish soldiers.[2]
The complaint concludes:[3]
Die vorstehende Zusammenstellung erbringt den erdrückenden Beweis dafür, daß der Deutsche in Polen z. Z. keineswegs die feierlich zugesagte Gleichberechtigung genießt, daß er vielmehr fast überall geradezu als vogelfrei gilt.....
1921
19.02.1921, Saturday: The Republic of Poland and the French Republic sign a mutual defense treaty,[4] which was however only ratified on the 2nd of August 1923.SOURCE
1925
16.10.1925, Friday: The Republic of Poland and the French Republic again sign a mutual defense treaty.[5]
1934
26.01.1934, Friday: The German Reich and the Republic of Poland sign a mutual non-aggression treaty, which however explicitly does not contradict other "international obligations".[6] This includes also the french-polish defense treaty of 1925, which Poland later stressed towards France.[7] +SOURCE Laroche, La Pologne Pilsudski
March 1939
23.03.1939: The German consul in Gdingen observes the beginning of a polish mobilization.[8]
24.03.1939: Local German observers recognize further polish mobilization measures.[9][10]
25.03.1939: The German foreign ministry notes further polish mobilization measures.[11] Hitler orders the supreme commander of the army Walther von Brauchitsch to create a plan to defeat Poland.[12]
26.03.1939: Lipski delivers a memorandum of the Polish government to Ribbentrop, in which an extraterritorial high- and railway to East Prussia is rejected.[13] But Ribbentrop answers Lipski, that such an extraterritorial connection and the German Reich's annexation of Danzig would be the foundation of any solution of the German-Polish problem.[14]
April 1939
August 1939
September 1939
Later Justifications
Citations
- ↑ Auswärtiges Amt: Dokumente zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges, Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1939, Dokument Nr. 5, S. 29 f.
- ↑ Auswärtiges Amt: Dokumente zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges, Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1939, Dokument Nr. 5, S. 29 f.
- ↑ Auswärtiges Amt: Dokumente zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges, Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1939, Dokument Nr. 5, S. 29 f.
- ↑ Ministère des Affaires Étrangères: French Yellow Book, London / Melbourne: Hutchinson & Co. 1940, Appendix I, S. 357 f.
- ↑ Ministère des Affaires Étrangères: French Yellow Book, London / Melbourne: Hutchinson & Co. 1940, Appendix I, S. 357 f.
- ↑ Auswärtiges Amt: Dokumente zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges, Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1939, Dokument Nr. 37, S. 35 f.
- ↑ Łukasiewicz, Juliusz: Diplomat in Paris 1936 - 1939. Papers and Memoirs of Juliusz Łukasiewicz Ambassador of Poland, New York / London: Columbia University Press 1970, S. 8 f.
- ↑ Auswärtiges Amt: Dokumente zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges, Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1939, Dokument Nr. 205, S. 132.
- ↑ Auswärtiges Amt: Dokumente zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges, Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1939, Dokument Nr. 204, S. 132.
- ↑ Auswärtiges Amt: Dokumente zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges, Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1939, Dokument Nr. 206, S. 132.
- ↑ Auswärtiges Amt: Dokumente zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges, Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1939, Dokument Nr. 207, S. 133.
- ↑ Auswärtiges Amt (Hrsg.): Akten zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik 1918-1945. Aus dem Archiv des deutschen Auswärtigen Amtes, Serie D, Band 6, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1956, Dokument 99, S. 98.
- ↑ Auswärtiges Amt: Dokumente zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges, Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1939, Dokument Nr. 208, S. 133 ff.
- ↑ Auswärtiges Amt: Dokumente zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges, Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1939, Dokument Nr. 208, S. 133 ff.