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Lithuania did sentence some Nazis in 1935 to deter Germany in Klaipėda/Memel. Then managed to hold onto it till spring of 1939. Then refused Hitler offer to joi
by mantas 5y ago
Lithuania did sentence some Nazis in 1935 to deter Germany in Klaipėda/Memel. Then managed to hold onto it till spring of 1939. Then refused Hitler offer to join attacking Poland.
In 1941-1944 people tried to stay away from Nazis and keep a fighting chance against Soviets once they’ll be back. For example Lithuanian SS division was never formed as in other occupied territories. While Germans did push for it, locals actively sabotaged it to have more men for coming anti-Soviet resistance.
Now standing up to Soviets.. while 1944-1952 was pretty decent, summer of 1940 was rather sad.
- varjag 5y ago> Then refused Hitler offer to join attacking Poland. Which is more than what the ostensibly anti-fascist USSR did.
- ekianjo 5y ago> Which is more than what the ostensibly anti-fascist USSR did. The funniest part is that when the USSR started the invade the other half of Poland right after Germany started, none of the allies declared war on the USSR while they had a protection treaty with Poland in the first place.
- sudosysgen 5y agoI mean, of course. The alternative was that Germany takes all of Poland and gets to be more agressive against the allies. The Soviets taking half of Poland was a massive benefit for the allies.
- mantas 5y agoKatyn or Rainiai or 1941 Deportations was a benefit to Allie’s too I guess :)
- sudosysgen 5y agoThe dark truth is that probably, yes, it was a benefit to the Allies.
- mantas 5y agoHalf of europe being behind iron curtain is beneficial to allies too. Now West got plenty of cheap workforce... Today's China is great too in a sense :) Looking at Poland army in exile, I bet if those people shot in Katyn were able to escape, that'd have helped allies more than decomposing bodies helped the local ecosystem.
- ekianjo 5y agosoviets were not part of the allies at the start of the war...
- mantas 5y agoUSSR being lord savior from the Nazis is the best marketing campaign ever. And that sells like hot bagels :( Joint parades in Poland, training German armies in secrecy, Gulag tours to learn about concentration camps, selling strategic resources right up to the day when Nazis do u-turn… meh.
- vasac 5y agoConsidering that Easter Front was responsible for 80% of German deaths in WWII looks like marketing is what you're selling.
- mantas 5y agoConsidering that Nazis couldn’t run a successful early campaign without resources from USSR… And it’s not much being a savior if you just install new management and keep the shitty practices