(Marc Reeve) wrote in message ...
People also forget the backstab by the Soviet Union. The Poles were
holding their own against the Blitzkrieg, despite losing ground (but did
they ever make the Germans pay for that ground), until the Red Army came
across the eastern border.

Shouldn't we make that a double? As I recall, in '44 (or was it '45)
the Russians halted their advance just outside Warsaw to give the
Germans time to wipe out the Poles. They knew these were the very
Poles that would cause trouble later on when they occupied Poland
themselves, and would just as soon see them all dead.

Rob