Why did Germany attack Poland?

Answer 1

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime wanted Lebensraum or "living space". Basically, the Nazi Germans wanted to create a great empire larger than the world had ever seen before. The fact that they had to torture, maim and murder to create their 1000 Year Reich didn't raise an eyebrow among Nazi faithful.

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Hitler justified invasion of Poland by the need to recover lands lost in WWI, and the city of Danzig among others, but the truth was he needed to peruse his goal of his belief in Aryan race expansion, and he started reasonably from the weakest neighboring country, apart from earlier peacefully annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia.
because they had a lack of polls and land! :P lolololol
At the end of WW1 Germany lost territory through war reparations under the treaty of Versailles, including Silesia used to create the modern state of Poland.

As Germany began to default on war reparations payments to Poland during the 1930s Poland began to demand annexation of increasing portions of Silesia creating animosity with Germany.

In addition Germany had territory known as Pomerania in what today is known roughly as Lithuania. The city now known as Gydansk was then called Danzig.

Hitler's counter demand to Poland was for a land corridor for trade between Germany and Pomerania.

Britain and France had contributed to the formation of the modern state of Poland in 1922 through the treaty of Brest Litvosk and hence when Poland was invaded they were bound by treaty to protect the territorial integrity of Poland.

It is doubtful that Hitler wanted so much of Polish territory, but he did want to reclaim portions of Silesia and the Danzig Corridor and by retaking those portions without an understanding with Russia he risked war with Russia, so Hitler concluded a secret pact with Stalin so the Soviets would support his actions.

Germany created a false pretext by attacking a German radio station near the border with Polish speaking German soldiers in Polish uniform and leaving the bodies of political prisoners there dressed in Polish uniform to be found after the attack.
Hitler believed that Germany was too small of a country and the invasion of Poland was his attempt to make Germany a larger country.

you coudnt be further from the truth. Infact he believed that it German people living in Poland had a right to be there and not the Jewish poles. the hatred of Jews was not just thought of Hitler at the time of just after ww1 the hatred of the Jews were thought of by most people. they had all the money, the business' and jobs when Germany were in an economic crisis. he was taking back what he believed was rightfully germanys! he didnt believe the aryan race was superior in the world- just Germany. he wanted his country to be pure and German.
Hitler wanted to regain lost ground and conquer Europe then the World

It was a key stage in Hitler's quest for a vast empire in Eastern Europe.

Background reasons included these:

At the end of World War 1 (1918) Poland was recreated: it had been divided up between Russia, Austria and Prussia in stages in 1772-95.

1. In 1918-19, after World War 1, a large part of Germany was transferred to Poland. In most of these regions the population was ethnically mixed and some of the area was largely German. Hitler wanted the territory returned to Germany.

2. As a result of #1, East Prussia was cut off from Germany, which, in the eyes of German nationalists, created an unacceptable Polish corridor running through Germany.

3. The overwhelmingly German city of Danzig had been detached from Germany and turned into a Free City in order to guarantee the Poles access to the sea.

One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. However, Hitler sought the nonaggression pact in order to neutralize the possibility of a French-Polish military alliance against Germany before Germany had a chance to rearm.

In the mid and late 1930s, France and especially Britain followed a foreign policy of appeasement. The objective of this policy was to maintain peace in Europe by making limited concessions to German demands. In Britain, public opinion tended to favor some revision of the territorial and military provision of the Versailles treaty. Moreover, neither Britain nor France in 1938 was militarily prepared to fight a war against Nazi Germany.

German invasion of Poland, September 1939

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Britain and France essentially acquiesced to Germany's rearmament (1935-1937), remilitarization of the Rhineland (1936), and annexation of Austria (March 1938). In September 1938, after signing away the Czech border regions, known as the Sudetenland, to Germany at the Munich conference, British and French leaders pressured France's ally, Czechoslovakia, to yield to Germany's demand for the incorporation of those regions. Despite Anglo-French guarantees of the integrity of rump Czechoslovakia, the Germans dismembered the Czechoslovak state in March 1939 in violation of the Munich agreement. Britain and France responded by guaranteeing the integrity of the Polish state. Hitler responded by negotiating a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1939. The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention.

On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 28, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939. The demarcation line for the partition of German- and Soviet-occupied Poland was along the Bug River.
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Answer 2

Hitler justified invasion of Poland by the need to recover lands lost in WWI, and the city of Danzig among others, but the truth was he needed to peruse his goal of his belief in Aryan race expansion, and he started reasonably from the weakest neighboring country, apart from earlier peacefully annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Answer 3

Hitler invaded Poland as his first step towards world domination. Keep in mind that Hitler was insane and able to influence people to do what they normally would not do. He made his way - very easily - through Holland and Belgium and on to France. England declared war against Germany in 1938, shortly after Hitler began his campaign, Canada joined with England in 1939. The US declared war after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.
Poland was contested well before the beginning of World War 2. The territory occupied by Poland just before the Germans invaded was at some point of time before part of Germany and part of russia. The Germans invaded Poland after they struck an accord with the Russians on how it will be divided between the two nations. The goal of the Germans was to exapnd their border and boost their numbers, while propogating the "endless war" that was part of their ideology.

Answer 4

Germany wnted to regain wealth and honour from ww1

Answer 5

Hitler wanted to control Europe, including Poland. Also, Poland was reformed after World War I using land from Germany and Russia.

Answer 6

Germany and The Soviet Union (Russia) made a pact/agreement with each other to divide up Poland for themselves IF they both invaded the country at the same time.