Poland
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[edit] Poland in The War That Came Early
Fearing Soviet designs against its territorial integrity, Poland openly assisted Germany in its war against the USSR and Czechoslovakia, another traditional enemy of the country. As German forces were driving through Czechoslovakia, Polish forces crossed the border and annexed some Czech territory which they maintained had always been theirs by right, but which the Czechs had taken themselves at an earlier date. (For their part, the Czechs maintained that the land had always been Czech but had been stolen by the Poles.)
Though not openly allied with Germany, Poland saw the importance of maintaining good relations with the Germans. Among other things, this led them to accept war refugees from Czechoslovakia, but to consider them "displaced persons" and keep them detained indefinitely. In the winter of 1938, fearing that holding the DPs would anger the Germans, Poland sent them to France, where a Czech government-in-exile had formed, by way of neutral Romania.
Many Poles also shared the Nazis' anti-Semitism and believed asinine theories about Jews being responsible for the destruction of world culture.
[edit] Poland in In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Poland was part of the Greater German Reich in 2010. During the Second World War, the Reich genocided the Poles due to their Slavic ancestry and their animosity to Germany. Following the war, Poland was "formally" annexed into Greater Germany and colonized by German settlers.
The remaining handful of Poles were enslaved by the Reich and were used along Russian, Ukrainian, Serb and Arab slave laborers by German industry for "dirty" or dangerous work.
[edit] Poland in The Man With the Iron Heart
Poland was "liberated" from Nazi Germany by the Soviet Red Army at the end of World War II. The Soviet Union quickly began finding sympathetic communists to administer the country. Polish officials also took additional steps of expelling and relocating the ethnic Germans that lived within Poland's newly created borders.
Thus, the German Freedom Front was quite active in areas like Wroclaw, which had been a firmly German city until 1945.
[edit] Poland in Southern Victory
In 1916, Germany established a client Kingdom of Poland on historically Polish territory that Germany had conquered from Russia. However, Germany was also a traditional enemy of Poland, and also occupied historically Polish territory. For this reason, the Polish people never fully supported the German-backed royal government. When war broke out between Germany and Russia in 1941, Poles were divided in their loyalties. Poland's large Jewish minority was overwhelmingly loyal to the German-backed king because the Russians traditionally persecuted the Jews within their own territory.
During the Second Great War, Poland was a target of Russian invasion, but was ultimately forced back by the Germans and Polish nationalists.
[edit] Poland in Worldwar
Poland was established as a nation at the end of World War I from territory stripped from Germany and Russia, both of which bitterly resented its existence. In 1939, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin agreed to invade Poland and divide its territory between their two countries, thus beginning World War II. In June of 1941 German forces drove Soviet forces from their half of Poland as part of their invasion of Russia and overran all of Poland.
Over the next year, German rule in Poland was draconian and oppressive, especially toward the Jews, who were forced to live in ghettos such as those in the cities of Warsaw and Lodz. By May 1942 the Germans had already begun to send Jews to concentration camps, where they were murdered en masse.
When the Race invaded Earth, they quickly drove the Germans from Poland and began administering it themselves. Both Poles and Jews were divided in their loyalties: One option was to support the Race in its war against the rest of the humanity; the other was to support their old enemies, the Germans and the Russians.
During negotiations of the Peace of Cairo, the Race pressed both Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop to allow it to colonize Poland. Molotov agreed, not least of all because neither trusted the other and both were fearful that Poland run by a human government, any human government, could provide a flashpoint for another Russo-German war, but Ribbentrop was a harder sell. Eventually he too agreed to these terms when the Race threatened Germany with total war if it refused and the other human powers in attendance expressed unwillingness to support Germany. Poland became, along with Spain and Portugal, one of the Race's few European colonies.
Both the Poles and the Jews became comfortable under the Race's rule, though ethnic tensions between the two persisted and the Poles in particular resented the Race for denying them their own nation. Both factions maintained their own independent militia forces, and the leaders of both militias agreed to support the Race against either the Germans or the Soviets should another round of fighting break out.
In 1965, Germany invaded Poland, touching off the Race-German War of 1965. True to their word, both the Jewish and Polish militias offered their services to the Conquest Fleet. They provided the majority of the Race's infantry forces on the Polish front.
[edit] Poland in The Gladiator
The People's Republic of Poland was a keystone of the Soviet Union's domination in the Europe
[edit] Poland in "In This Season"
Puck, Poland, was part of the territory ruled by Germany in 1939. Three Jewish families were rescued from Puck through the aid of a mysterious golem.
