The conflict between Germans and Poles began in the 10th century, when Germans and Poles fought each other for living space and the Poles often won. As in the Battle of Grunwald, when the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania united against the Teutonic Order.
It wasn't about the Jews. More precisely, not only in them. There were many Jews in Hungary and the Horthy regime treated them relatively tolerantly, despite its alliance with Hitler, it did not extradite more than one Jew until he was overthrown and the Ferenc Salasi and Crossed Arrows regime was established. There were centuries of hatred and many wars between the Poles and the Germans. The first major thinker to openly call for the genocide of the Polish people was 14th-century German Dominican theologian Johann von Falkenberg, who argued on behalf of the Teutonic Order that not only Polish pagans should be killed, but all Poles, since they are heretics by nature, and that even Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło, who converted to Christianity, should be killed. to kill.
The whole Polish history is built around the confrontation with the Germans. From Grunwald in 1410, to the partitions when the Austrian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Russian Empire destroyed the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, to the uprisings in Silesia and Poznan in 1918, and to World War II.
He hated the Poles, so they didn't have the SS divisions that the Ukrainians, Russians, and Bosnians had.
They were unthrustworthy. They butchered 60 000 german civilians and that's what started the whole war. Hitler hated noone. I wish he did, but he was too good for his own good. He paid dearly for that - kindness is never left unpunished.
Yes, but as far as I've read, even Weimar Germany didn't allow its territory to be used in order to. The French and British transferred weapons to the Poles through her during the Soviet-Polish war. The only Pole whom Hitler respected was Jozef Pilsudski and that was it. He had some respect for him.
Frederick II of Prussia treated Poles with contempt, in particular the gentry, the numerous Polish nobility.
Pilsudski was in favor of a peaceful resolution of the teritorial dispute, but he was alone in that respect. Don't forget that poles are a breed of germanics who hated the rest of their kind to the point of willfull self-imposed slavicization. The hatred poles have for germans is bitter and vicious, animalistic even, much like the hatred of ukrainians for russians, or any bullshit nation against the mother nation.
Words of truth and wisdom, but not Hitler's words.
Yes, but I was just using historical data about Otto von Bismarck and Frederick II the great, as these are the two main German national historical heroes. It's just that the German-Polish conflict has existed for centuries, and it's extremely difficult to hide an age-old conflict. Therefore, I do not believe that it was only because of the large Jewish population of Poland before World War II, and there were also many Jews in the Kingdom of Hungary under Miklos Horthy, but Hitler respected Hungarians and Admiral Horthy because the historical background of relations between Hungarians and Germans was better.
The point is Hitlers actions were cold and calculated, not fiery and fierce. That's why he waited for almost a month after the polish slaughters began, before he invaded. And that's why he made no attempt to eradicate the polish populace. It was strategy, not hatred. And ofcourse hungarians will be treated better - they have a special loving relationship with germans. We are talking about centuries of genetic gentrification. Hell, even to this day, marrying a german is a status symbol for hungarians, much like marrying a russian woman is for bulgarians, for example. Hungarians love germans, so they were treated well. Poles absolutely despise german beyond reason, and so they were treated accordingly. Nothing suprising, really.
Yes, well, Hitler was a man, so he had likes and dislikes. Hitler loved the Hungarians, so he helped them to return the territories that had previously been Hungarian before Trianon, he returned to them the lands of Transylvania, the Carpathians and other lands. Romania gave him oil, gave him the largest contingent during the Barbarossa invasion, and exterminated Jews, but Hitler despised Romanians because, contrary to logic, he had an antipathy towards them. He did not like Romanians, so he gave the lands in Dobrudja to the Bulgarians, and Transylvania to the Hungarians. Therefore, this led to the discontent of some of the Romanian elite, so the Romanians betrayed him in exchange for a promise to return Transylvania to the Romanians after World War II.
The same goes for the Finns. Hitler loved the Finns and had respect for Marshal Karl Gustav Mannerheim, although in the First World War he fought against the German Empire as a lieutenant general of the Russian Empire. The Finns did not storm Leningrad, although they could have done so, they did not fight any active battles along their front line, and then they betrayed the Germans and the Lapland war began, when the Finns drove them out of their territory.
He was a polymath with a devilish atention to detail. I highly doubt he made misinformed decisions concerning the survival of all life based on his personal sympathies and antipathies. Ofcourse, with such a tremendous endeavour as a worldwide anti-jewish revolution, mistakes happen. Many mistakes. I don't think redistribution of territories based on the ethnic makeup of their native populations was one of those mistakes, however. When dealing with a multitude of nationalities whose interests contradict eachother, you just can't keep everyone happy.
