I don't even know mainstream narratives because I know it's all garbage. What were they told?
Story we got told in school is because he was just expansionist and he had gotten away with everything up until that point so why not. Honestly I'd say that's at least partially true. He wanted to at least restore Germany to it's greatest territorial extent. He likely had no idea invading Poland would finally provoke the allies to declare war, since he wasn't aware of their secret treaty and they'd mostly been friendly with him up until then.
Germany attacked Poland in Danzig because jewish poles were killing German's, correct?
And because Polish troops crossed the border for funsies and attacked German border outposts firsts. Except that turned out to be a false flag by the Germans and I'm having trouble finding evidence for the claims about Germans in Danzig being attacked that don't come from the NSDAP.
Plus, Germany had already divided up Poland with the Soviets at that point, so the attack was clearly premeditated, not based on some humanitarian emergency.
Thank you for the info.
What do you mean false flag for the German's?
Much of the testimony regarding it came from the nuremburg trials, which are automatically suspect in my view. The official story is that the Germans staged false flag attacks against German border posts/towns and left behind a few bodies in Polish uniforms to cement the impression that attacks were carried out by Poles. Allegedly the bodies were poor innocent jews who had been killed by lethal injection.
Now the part about jews being slaughtered I'm fairly sure is the usual holohoax fantasising, but the incidents themselves did happen because the Germans made a point of publicising them before the war. I doubt the Poles were the actual perpetrators given that they had everything to lose from provoking a war, and the Germans refused access to the sites of the attacks by international observers, so it seems likely the NSDAP cooked them up to create pretext for the invasion.
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