If we're talking about objective reality, history is usually more complex than "good guys vs. bad guys."
The reason we talk in those terms is because our emotions are geared towards simple ingroup vs. outgroup calculations. The primary purpose of politics and culture is to determine the outgroup and defend the ingroup, hence Plato's assertion that: "Those who tell the stories rule society."
In the case of modern germany they call Hitler "the bad guy" because those who tell the stories have taught them that they are their own enemies. Hopefully that changes, but either way the only way for Hitler (an invader) to become "the good guy" in Poland is for them to be taught the same lesson, which should not happen and I hope does not happen.
Oh, you'll be interested to know that the part of "Poland" that Hitler "invaded" had been Germany a few years prior and was taken from them as reparations for WWI.
Germany were also the good guys, objectively, in WWI.
It would be like if Mexico started a World War, the US fought and won it and demanded life return to normal, then The Jews in Mexico colluded with the Jews in the US to bring the Jews in Europe into the war. Then Europe comes out of nowhere defeats the US who had done nothing wrong morally or legally, and then gives New York State to Canada. And then Canada starts abusing the residents of what once was New York State. Would America not be justified and reclaiming New York State? That's essentially what happened in post World War I Germany
Oh, you'll be interested to know that the part of "Poland" that Hitler "invaded" had been Germany a few years prior and was taken from them as reparations for WWI.
No way! Colour me shocked.
Danzig had been swapping back and forth between various German, Polish, Russian and Swedish states for centuries. It was hardly the German ancestral homeland or something.
Germany were also the good guys, objectively, in WWI.
Eh. It was a war which didn't need to happen. They weren't uniquely guilty for starting it, but they weren't innocent either.
It would be like if Mexico started a World War, the US fought and won it and demanded life return to normal, then The Jews in Mexico colluded with the Jews in the US to bring the Jews in Europe into the war. Then Europe comes out of nowhere defeats the US who had done nothing wrong morally or legally, and then gives New York State to Canada. And then Canada starts abusing the residents of what once was New York State. Would America not be justified and reclaiming New York State? That's essentially what happened in post World War I Germany
No, it would not be like that.
It would be like the US invading Cuba because it looks like it's going to become part of Spain again, then losing both Cuba and Florida in the process.
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