War in Poland 1939 - false myths?

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Originally posted by wayne c. petrie


Facts don't lie,but they are distorted by those who don't want the real truth to be known.

Why have historians not seen through all these false myths?

Strange enough the victor and the looser both had reasons to lie to the world. To the Poles it was preferable to say that they lost because the Germans were totally superior.

The Germans at the time had an interest in posing as invincible and couldn’t say: “We did not win because we were better – we won because they played their cards wrong”.

So Field Marshal Rydz-Smigly and Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels both had a common interest in pretending that Poland was no match for the German war machine.

For the Poles it sounded far better to have fought bravely but lost against impossible odds than to say “the Germans were not so good at all but we missed to take advantage of our possibilities”.

Photo: The invincible German War Machine on the march. The men are towing the wagon in order to help the overstrained horses.