HSTR 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Maginot Line, Phoney War, Belarusians
22 Jan 2017
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Worked well against poland who had weak defence: to defeat the blitzkrieg: defence in depth- not known at the time. Battles are won on number of troops within the battle field. 17 september 1939: soviet powers come into poland to defend the frontier: this territory was originally soviet land; population was ukrainian and. Belarussians: the stab of the back of poland. Wide suspicion that this was negotiated before. Polish army is eliminated in early october. Britain and france not ready for war. Logistics: critically important, the supplies, where to getting the men there and keeping a modern army supplied (i. e. food, bullets, gas for tanks) No actual fighting afterwards: french had speculation but take a defensive position, britain doesn"t have logistics, germans: content, perusing negotiations with britain and france, hoping to call their bluff. Hitler racial theories may have come to mind with england and anglo-
