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And I'm thinking Seeckt and other Germans talking of partition and erasure of Poland going back to the time of Rapallo or earlier were not even always insisting on getting the full share Hitler-Ribbentropp got in 1939. Many of them would have been fine only getting the 1914 borders and leaving...

What were these (German I suppose?) Foreign Ministry plans? A hardline against Poland and trade war forever. Demand for Danzig and an extraterritorial corridor. Anything more expansive and specific? Cooperation with the USSR for a joint war against Poland to steal territory from Poland, like...

I guess for Germany, it emplaces Poland along a sensitive import route for Romanian oil, possibly even touching the Danube. Although admittedly, there is still a route entirely to the south, by rail or road, from Romania through Hungary to the Austrian Gau.

@Batrix2070 - instead of sharing out Slovakia with Poland, can Germany pacify Poland by supporting it in its crisis in March 1938 with Lithuania, supporting Poland in escalating to war and conquest of Lithuania?

As I remarked in my second post of the thread:

I've proposed this as an option a few different times, mostly on AH.com, and previously SHWI, and the idea usually get panned or pooh-pooh'ed as implausible, impractical, or overly risky, despite the seemingly good strategic argument that a neutral, independent Poland makes for a nice, buffering...

Not to belabor this argument too much, but the Germans seem to have made more productive use of their time between October 1939 and April 1940 in refitting, repairing, raising, and retraining their forces for the 1940 campaigns, while I recall a grad school historian Professor of mine...

I'm surprised @ATP hasn't noticed this yet and flipped out because I'm basically saying Europe wasn't strategically able to handle/contain German aggression/revanchism because the birth of an independent Poland made it all too complicated and annoying for the bigger, more important powers to...

Wouldn't full utilization have resulted in a defense that would have halted the Germans well before Paris?

Now let's speculate to an alternative to the 'Polish problem'. - What if the Soviets win their 1920 war against Poland? They take Warsaw and most of Poland. They possibly let the Weimar Germans take the Polish corridor. The Soviets make Poland into either a component Union SSR of the USSR, or a...

Have you ever hear or read the argument, assertion, or allegation that ironically, even though Germany "lost" WWI, the war's outcome, and the territorial map of Europe it resulted in, left Germany in a *strategically better* position after WWI than it had been before the war? I've heard this...