While Poland drafted its estimates based upon the expectation that the Western Allies would honor their treaty obligations and quickly start an offensive of their own, the French and the British expected the war to develop into trench warfare, much like World War I. Many Germans also wanted the urban port city of Danzig and its environs (comprising the Free City of Danzig) to be reincorporated into Germany. Only some trainers and auxiliary aircraft were destroyed on the ground.
, Polish cavalry units did not engage German tanks with lances and swords. Now, 79 years later many people don't know that over 50,000 Slovak soldiers invaded Poland alongside Germany, resulting in the Polish regions of Spisz and Orawa, inhabited by 34,500, being incorporated into Slovakia. Nazi propaganda was one of the factors behind the German brutality directed at civilians that had worked relentlessly to convince the Germans into believing that Jews and Slavs were Untermenschen (subhumans). It was assumed that the Polish Army, fighting in the initial phase of the war alone, would have to defend the western regions of the country. Since most of the Polish forces were engaged with the German armies, which were more to the north of the southern.
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