July 14th, 2007, 07:38 PM
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Re: What did Germany need to win the war?
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Originally Posted by Marienburg
Except that if Hitler had taken all of Poland in 1939 and not given the Soviets an inch he would have had a very, very angry Stalin just waiting to stick the knife between his shoulder blades the moment his attention was turned west against France. A lot of eastern Poland had been taken from Russia/Ukraine in war in the early 1920s and the Russians/Ukrainians wanted that land back. Hitler had little choice but to give the Russians at least the eastern sections of Poland if he wanted Stalin to play nice while he dispatched the Western Allies.
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Agreed..
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