[QUOTE=Kraxis]


I cannot agree with one statement of yours:

True, why should Poland compromise? Well, Germany lost areas that really were German after WWI. Poland got those areas (other areas were lost too which were Polish to be certain). Now Hitler wanted those areas back.
So both Germany and Poland had a claim on them (the areas had been Polish a number of times earlier, and German a number of times, thus it was not a new situation).
True those areas were in Germany, however the crushing majority of population was undeniably Polish.

This map is based on German data gathered in early XXth century and Allied research which was often hardly pro-Polish




You see Germans were quite numerous - about 1 000 000 in 35 000 000, but they were living in various areas with only a couple of mostly German districts or towns, HOWEVER since late XVIIIth century Prussian/later Imperial German propaganda tried to implement some sort of superiority complex in them.
Simply they already believed they are better and rascist, nationalistic propaganda of early XXth century was especially popular in these areas they were the minority.

Funny, that Germans have almost always been the most reliable minority and the easiest to be polonised , yet they were so ready to accept the fairy tales about 'those brave Teutonic settlers fighting with Slavic barbarians'.

Simply the law in Prussia was virtually apartheit one ( Poles were banned to buy land, learn Polish etc) and the local Germans were under special care of the government - all that was lost after independent Poland re-emerged and in addition trashed them in a couple of battles.
No wonder there were numerous supporters of this 'reconquista'.