[Crewman]

Hello Friends,

Originally posted by TColvin
I agree that all these were myths.

What seems to be true, however, is that Poland understood Britain and France would attack Germany. Therefore the Polish armed forces fought a delaying action to give the Anglo-French forces time to get their shit together. The attacks could have been directly into Germany across the Maginot Line by the Anglo-French armies and/or by the Royal Navy breaking into the Baltic.

Instead the Anglo-French forces did next to nothing, and failed even to study the German technique in order to prepare themselves for the onslaught in 1940.

The country that suffered the worst in WWII was without any doubt Poland, and many Brits, including myself, continue to be conscious-stricken about it.

Originally posted by FV623
It would seem that politically and technically Germany had no intention of fighting a prolonged campaign, even the Blitskrieg technique was a very short-term action.

Originally posted by Stellan Bojerud
Yes, in 1939 there wasn´t much Britain could do for Poland - but the French could and had promised to launch an attack on Germany within 14 days from outbreak of war.

I think that we entered very interesting area of discussion where it is possible to tell that altogether are right. Let's look at the Falklands War case study. So modern, so well-equipped, so well-organized, so well-trained, so well-prepared for the international interventions the British Armed Forces needed then long weeks to organize themselves and to prepare their future battlefield in both combat and logistics aspects. Argentina attacked on April 2nd and the British Forces were ready to response after a month. I think that with such the Army the UK had in 1939 British Forces would not be ready to prepare their logistics and combat components to intervene successfully in Poland in October 1939.

Best regards

C.