Why didn't Poland hand over Danzig to Germany? (Short Animated Documentary)

Germany demanded numerous territorial concessions from basically everyone in the lead up to World War 2. Everyone gave them exactly what they wanted until Poland who said no to the return of Danzig and some territory called the 'Polish Corridor'. So given that everyone had caved in to Germany's demands up until this point, why was that Poland was the first to refuse?

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[lurmpfhne]

The 'ultimatum' Germany came up with wasn't even presented to the Polish ambassador, who was turned away when he demanded an audience with Ribbentrop. It was read out loud to the British ambassador, who also wasn't allowed to see the document it was printed on. So yeah it was basically just an excuse to justify their invasion which was already inevitable at this point.

[TheOGDisco]

I swear this has to have something to do with Napoleon

[aarronbraxton]

“..we shall be forced to send you another letter.” Peak comedy, HM is always elite

[Quin_Ram]

The flag of Poland has three colors. White for purity, red for bravery, and blue for its allies’ loyalty.

[ItzWhiz_]

Kelly Moneymaker has fallen


Billions must demand Danzig

[GeorgianSSR]

0:21 “you know what goes here” we all know

[erickonami]

"Polish leaders knew they could rely on Paris"
Lol

[mappingshaman]

2:07 Czechoslovakia wasn't truly a small nation though. They had a really strong army, particularly their tank force. When Germany rolled over France, a significant part of the tanks were former czechoslovakian tanks.

[ChessedGamon]

Because the leadership of Poland were generally adults and we develop pattern recognition in our first few months of infancy

[chmidt]

One correction is that Memel was after ww1 also subject of the UN before Lithuania just marched into Memel and occupied it

[Vaishino]

"Adi's shoe factory" I see what you did there

[AverageKashmiri_Commenter]

James Bisonette helped keep Poland strong.

[curtishenry]

Thank you for continuing to put out great content consistently! So many other great content creators for history on YouTube put out content rarely. Thank you for helping me with my knowledge fix!

[sucharekoo]

Fun fact, On November 13, 1947, the government of the Free City of Danzig in exile is established, with Berlin as its headquarters. This organization is linked to the Federation of Expellees, once led by Erika Steinbach, which has over a million members, it operates to this day.

[B_Rowen]

They also really liked the Misfits and didn't want to lose the future solo project

[thereelphil]

Tell your children not to walk my way
Tell your children not to hear my words
What they mean, what they say . . . mother

[ovca]

2:10 I agree with the statement, that poland wasn't a small nation but interestingly, their army was numerically simmilar to the Czechoslovak, a country more then 2 times smaller than Poland. And in the end, allies played germany - not keeping their promises of defending Poland

[Zaeka]

2:55 Where’s Kelly Moneymaker ?!?!?!?!?!?

[Soundwave]

Thank you History Matters for making history both interesting and funny 😊. Merry Christmas 🎄 to you and everyone in the comments section! 🎉

[Ancient_Yuletide_Carol]

It's really unfortunate that Poland and Czechoslovakia were too busy squabbling over minor territorial disagreements instead of recognize the much bigger threat of Germany that a united Czecho-Polish front would probably have effectively deterred...