The Ruin of Poland

One book I have been working through recently is Winston Churchill's book The Gathering Storm. For this post I will be talking a little about the attack on Poland.I'll give a quote from the book about this and then go into a little detail about what he is talking about.

Here is the Quote:


Meanwhile around the Cabinet table we where witnessing the swift and almost mechanical destruction of a weaker State according to Hitler's method and long design. Poland was open to German invasion on three sides. In all fifty-six divisions, including all his nine armored and motorized divisions, composed the invading armies. The Third Army (eight divisions) advanced on Warsaw and Bialystok.

End quote.

Now I'll explain what he is talking about.
The Cabinet that he mentions in the beginning of the quote is the British War Cabinet. Hitler had been  plotting this invasion for months before the actual day... he had even staged a mock Polish attack on Germany! He took some dead prisoners, put them in Polish uniforms, and put them where the "invasion" was supposed to have taken place! So in this way he staged his attack on Poland as a retaliation on Poland. Hitler was putting all he had at the time into this invasion. He had all his armored and motorized divisions into the attack. (Armored and motorized machines includes tanks, artillery, troop transport vehicles, and motorcycles.)

That's all for this post, next post I'll cover a little more from this chapter in The Gathering Storm.