The allegation that WWI's outcome and map of Europe left Germany in a stronger position than the pre-WWI situation

[ATP]

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 West Prussia, or Posen? Or cooperation with the USSR for a complete partition and erasure of Poland?


So Hitler tainted his real world alliance offers to Poland by saying he would give Poland territory and alliance on one hand, but wanted to receive territory from Poland on the other?

Ah, your thinking is because no leader realistically ever gives away his own land he starts with, just other people's land that is up for grabs?

Conceding Slovakia as a Polish sphere of influence signals to Poland Germany is ready for a long-term partnership of equals or at least sovereign states?

But, you are still arguing that this is not enough to break Polish ties to France in a Franco-German war, unless France screws over Poland even more blatantly than OTL and tips its hand showing that it favors the USSR over Poland?

Germans from Rapallo/1922/ wanted another partition of Poland.
Which was suicide for them - soviets would attack them after that,and germans would have no army as big as that made by Hitler,and certainly do not attack first before soviets did it.

But,german elites hated Poland so much,that they have no problems with dying after our death.....

 

[raharris1973]

Germans from Rapallo/1922/ wanted another partition of Poland.

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 the rest to Russia.

Germans from Rapallo/1922/ wanted another partition of Poland.
Which was suicide for them - soviets would attack them after that,and germans would have no army as big as that made by Hitler,and certainly do not attack first before soviets did it.

But,german elites hated Poland so much,that they have no problems with dying after our death.....

@Batrix2070 - is your thought in response to my questions from post #20 basically the same as @ATP's?

 

[ATP]

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 the rest to Russia.



@Batrix2070 - is your thought in response to my questions from post #20 basically the same as @ATP's?

1.True
2.There would be 200+ soviet divisions on new german-soviet border.Against maybe 50 germans.You do not need anybody else opinion to quess,what would happen.