Hitler's attempts to make alliance with Poland

Originally posted by TheAlaniDragonRising Ask yourself, Mosquito, if General Fieldorf for one second would have considered that it might have been better to have sided with the germans. My guess is that he would have strongly said an emphatic no. Staying true to Polish values rather than siding with one dictator or another.

General Fieldorf was a soldier, obeying orders was his job. Politicians are responsible for making such policy, which will not end with the massslaughter of their people.

Somtimes it is better to have no heroes. The Czechs didnt have many and their country wasnt obliterated.
My country always had so many heroes and for last two centuries it was being obliterated at least twice in every century. There were always millions of people who were not heroes but had to live somehow when their cities and homes were destroyed, when they lost all their property and were starving and when their children were dieing because of hunger and disaseas.

By the time we had the goverment on exile in London it was already too late to make any new choise. However even that time there were made some new German proposals. The case of Roman Czerniawski among other cases comes to mind.


Roman Czerniawski was a Polish airforce officer and the head of spy net in occupied France. After Germans occupied France the French had basicaly no real resistance movement. So the Polish secret services decided to create country wide organisation in France.

Roman Czerniawski was chosen for the commander of such organisation. He had hundrieds of French agents on the territory of the whole France.

In 1942 one of his French agents was captured by the German Abwehr and started to talk. In result Czerniawski was arrested by the Germans.

In the prison he was conctacted by Polish speaking German officer Oscar Reile. The case its not clear and most of the files about the case were destroyed while Czerniawski until the end of his life didnt say the whole truth, even in his book published after the war.

The facts are that instead of torturing and executing Czerniawski, Germans started negotiations with him.
It looks like Germans wanted to send personal message to Polish goverment in London and that Canaris made some proposals about future German-Polish cooperation against Soviet Union. Germans prepared the escape of Polish officer from their prison and helped him to get to Spain where from he went to Great Britain.
Since that moment Czerniawski was playing the role of double agent and played one of the key roles in making Germans belive that DD invasion will be in different place than Normandy.



Edited by Mosquito - 17-Apr-2016 at 14:30

I made an error, I wanted to say that "The Czechs didnt have many and their country was not obliterated " while it was before I edited it written that it was obliterated.