The Western Betrayal of Poland, 1939–1945 — and Its Echoes in the Twenty-First Century
The Phoney War: Why Didn't The Allies Act? | Price Of Empire | Timeline - YouTube History & Analysis First to Fight, Last to Be Free The Western Betrayal of Poland, 1939–1945 — and Its Echoes in the Twenty-First Century April 2026 — With documentary fact-check Bottom Line Up Front Britain and France declared war on Germany in September 1939 ostensibly to defend Poland's sovereignty. In practice, they mounted only a token offensive in the Saar, dropped leaflets instead of bombs, and never declared war on the Soviet Union when it invaded Poland from the east on 17 September. At Nuremberg, German generals testified that the 110 Allied divisions facing a threadbare 23-division German screen in the west could have collapsed Germany's western defences in one to two weeks. When Sikorski pressed for the truth about Katyn, Churchill suppressed it and Roosevelt told Stalin that Sikorski "had erred." Ten weeks later, Sikorski was dead at Gibralta...