afleitch
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« on: September 17, 2010, 10:01:14 AM » |
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Poland still gets in the way of Hitler's territorial ambitions though even if there is an invasion of the Soviet Union. Something would have to give. Hitler could have 'requested' the old Prussian territories while allowing Poland to achieve it's 1919/1920 ambitions of pushing its border east into Belarus and Ukraine (along the lines of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). Germany could then set up a series of buffer states between there and the rump of Russia that would remain after the defeat of the Soviet Union. It's entirely possible that this would have been enough. Remember Hitler was putting pressure on Slovakia to declare independence prior to his final move on Czechoslovakia; he simply wanted Bohemia-Moravia and had no territorial interest in Slovakia.
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