A Little-Known Story About the Beginning of World War II

What started World War 2? With the attack of Nazi Germany on Poland - you will answer.
In recent years they like to add that Poland was attacked by the Soviet Union, although it happened 17 days later, when the troops of the Third Reich had already stormed Warsaw.
Did the USSR need to give Poland's eastern industry to the Nazis for reinforcement?
And does anyone know that on September 1st together with Germany the Slovak Republic attacked Poland? It had a defense agreement with the Nazis from 23.03.1939, which became the basis for the joint attack. According to the plan "Weiss", Slovak field army "Bernolak" consisting of about 50 thousand people crossed the border with Poland on September 1st and took part in battles against regular units of Polish army.

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Have you heard any stories from Polish or any other media that Slovakia together with Germany unleashed the biggest war in history? No, but the USSR is being shoved in harder and harder every year.

The Nazi plan to attack Poland... (without the USSR)

The Weiss Plan was a German strategic plan of military action against Poland. Hitler made the political decision to invade Poland in early 1939. On March 25 he informed about it the Commander-in-Chief of Land Forces Walter von Brauchitsch. On April 3, a directive was issued about Operation Weiss, the plan for which was developed by the end of June 1939.

German troops were to invade Poland in three directions:

• a main strike from German territory across Poland's western border.
• a blow from the north from East Prussia.
• a strike by German and allied Slovak troops from the territory of Slovakia.
  It was this plan that was implemented during the invasion on September 1, 1939. Where is the plan of joint attack of the Third Reich and the USSR? Have you seen it? Neither have I!
  And in the very pact you want to write about in your comments, no military action against Poland was mentioned.

Neither in science nor in international law there is no single definition of the state, but in the most general form its definition can be stated as follows:

State is a political form of organization of society on a certain territory, a sovereign form of public power, possessing an apparatus of administration and coercion, to which the entire population of the country is subordinate.

As we see in the case of P o l a n d in 1939, the fleeing P o l i s h government had neither the apparatus for governing the population, nor the very possibility of such governing. Since one of the basic conditions for the existence of the state was lost, the state itself ceased to exist after that, there was no one to exercise centralized power over a certain territory until the new power came. The international community represented by the League of Nations indirectly recognized the fact that Poland ceased to exist as a state. Otherwise, the USSR as an aggressor against a sovereign state (Poland) was subject, according to the charter, to expulsion from the League of Nations. But the USSR was not expelled from the Polish territory after the introduction of troops, which means that the territory of Poland after the government's flight was not recognized as a state on the international level.

The same is demonstrated by the behavior of England and France, which had obligations before Poland to declare war on that state which would unleash war on Poland or become an aggressor, and formally England and France fulfilled their obligations - they declared war on Germany, but did not declare war on the USSR. Not even a note of protest was sent to the USSR, which can be interpreted no other way than that England and France after the flight of the Polish government no longer recognized the territory as a state, and consequently their obligations to Poland were leveled.

In addition, the USSR was later included in the anti-Hitler coalition, to which initially did not belong, that is, the international community had no questions about the introduction of the Red Army in Poland, on the contrary, the Lord of the Admiralty W. Churchill (later Prime Minister of Great Britain) approved of it.

However, after the beginning of the war with Finland, the USSR was excluded from the League of Nations, which only confirms the fact that the introduction of troops into Poland was not aggression in the opinion of this organization.

Thank you for being here and reading to the end!