Saturday, March 31, 2007
This Day in the History of Evil
On this day in 1939, Britain and France agreed to support Poland if it was invaded by Germany. Of course, they never did come September and Poland suffered a German (and, for a while, Soviet) military occupation longer than any other European nation, and I do mean suffer. France probably would have done nothing in any event, but England was pretty much hamstrung by the speed with which Germany defeated and occupied Poland. The Brits were ready to fight WWI again, with slow troop mobilization and mass rail movement thereof, while the Germans had already figured out how to fight WWII, with massed tank, combined with air, attacks and motorized and often armored transport of troops.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:46 AM 
