Why did Germany invade Poland?
Hitler wanted a corridor allowing free access through Poland and the Polish city of Danzig. Hitler placed claims upon Poland citing captive German citizens in residence in that city. Hitler cited Polish aggression. That was the politically correct term at the time; today, its weapons of mass destruction. Shirer describes his outrage at the German corporate media of the day: In Berlin too a foreign observer could watch the way the press, under Goebbels expert direction, was swindling the gullible German people. For six years, since the Nazi co-ordination of the daily newspapers, which had meant the destruction of the free press, the citizens had been cut off from the truth of what was going on in the world. For a time the Swiss German-language newspapers from Zurich and Basel could be purchased at the leading newsstands in Germany and these presented objective news. But in recent years their sale in the Reich had been either prohibited or limited to a few copies. For Germans who could r
In the same way that Czechoslovakia had been dismantled by this tactic a year earlier, Hitler wanted a corridor to a primarily ethnic German part of Poland. I believe it is modern Gdansk (Danzig) A second reason was that Hitler had a long term aim of attacking Russia and Poland would provide that route.
