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Many examples of desertion and "runaway! runaway!" in Polish army in 1939.

Entire books/multi page threads on internet forums on the subject :), the latter mostly in Polish, though. "Germany" - or its body politic - is not a monolith. Just like "only Nixon could go to Peking", "only Hitler could recognise the border with Poland". Early Hitler was reasonably friendly...

Yes, he should had crossed the bridge the moment the Soviets showed up at the outskirts of the town. But ideally he should had committed seppuku. He was the main mover of the ruling junta and it was his statesmanship that had led to this. The September campaign was unwinnable militarily and...

That's a Polish chest-thumping myth combined with "cheese eating surrender monkeys" meme. Poland lost the campaign inside the first week (thank you Rydz-Śmigły), the Government fled the capital on 7.IX, the Polish army was destroyed by end of third week, with minor moping up operations for the...