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Patrick says

But Britain had a mutual defense treaty with Poland, and Germany had invaded Poland, causing Britain to declare war on Germany.

Funny how that did not apply to Britain declaring war on the USSR when the USSR invaded Poland also in 1939.

Patrick says

You could say a lot of that about the Irish.

Also, a good sense of humor and fun in life.

HeadSet says

Funny how that did not apply to Britain declaring war on the USSR when the USSR invaded Poland also in 1939.

Thanks, that's very interesting! Never thought about it, but it's true.

I'm back on Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

Some interesting bits:

Lots of Russians absolutely loathed communism, so when Germany first invaded Russia, those Russians thought they were being saved from communism, and there were mass surrenders to the Germans. But then as the Russian prisoners were simply killed by the Germans via deliberate starvation and the civilian population enslaved and worked to death, they figured out that the Nazis were actually worse than the communists, so Russian nationalists made common cause with the communists for the duration of the war. About three million Russian prisoners of war were deliberately starved to death in camps. The camp commanders forbid the surrounding populations from giving the prisoners food.

Hitler also forbade his commanders for ordering mandatory vaccination of Russians, because he wanted the Russians to die of diseases. Silly Hitler! He could have conveniently killed them with injections just like Bill Gates has been doing to the world with the mRNA.