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Old 12-19-2009, 01:44 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by joe_mullen View Post
I assume the comment about Poland being easy to conquer was made in jest, since they were able to hold out longer than France in spite of receiving no aid and being attacked on two fronts, something that no other country (besides the Nazis) had to contend with. Find another country in the world in 1939 that could have fought the Nazis and Soviets successfully at the same time.

Poland (and France) also had a lot of collaborators. In fact, most countries that were "conquered" by the Nazis, had internal situations that made it easy to be conquered. For many of them, it was also a choice between communists or fascists... and that was it. Poland had their fair share of home-grown nazis in the 1930s.
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