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By that time the Polish Army’s resistance was collapsing. Her old-fashioned mobilisation plan was slow in producing the required weight of forces, and her offensive plans dependent on a mass of heavy artillery which was not ready until the sixteenth day. But Hitler’s strategy had placed France in a situation where she could only relieve pressure on Poland by developing a quick attack – a form of action for which her army was unfitted. Out of the forty divisions which the Germans left to defend their western frontier, only four were active divisions, fully trained and equipped. The Poles and French together had the equivalent of 150 divisions, including thirty five reserve divisions, and from which some had to be kept for French overseas commitments, against the German total of ninety-eight divisions, of which thirty-six were in an untrained state.

The German army was far from being ready for war in 1939. On the face of figures of armed strength, as now known, the answer to both questions would, at first sight, seem to be “yes.” Within nine months most of Western Europe had been submerged by the spreading flood of war.Ĭould France and Britain have done more than they did to take the German pressure off Poland? Within less than a month Poland had been overrun. Six hours later the French government, more reluctantly, followed the British lead. On Sunday, the 3rd, the British government declared war on Germany, in fulfilment of the guarantee it had earlier given to Poland. On Friday, 1 September 1939, the German armies invaded Poland.

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