At 5 A.M. (of September 29, 1939) Molotov and Ribbentrop put their signatures to a new pact officially called the “German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty” (...)
The Treaty itself, which was made public, announced the boundary of the “respective national interests” of the two countries in “the former Polish state” and stated that within their acquired territories (of Poland) they would re-establish “peace and order” and “assure the people living there a peaceful life in keeping with their national character.”
But, as with the previous Nazi–Soviet deal, there were “secret protocols” — three of them, of which two contained the meat of the agreement. One added Lithuania to the Soviet “sphere of influence,” and the provinces of Lublin and Eastern Warsaw to the German. The second was short and to the point.
„Both parties will tolerate in their territories no Polish agitation which affects the territories of the other party. They will suppress in their territories all beginnings of such agitation and inform each other concerning suitable measures for this purpose.”
So Poland, like Austria and Czechoslovakia before it, disappeared from the map of Europe.
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Wpis z: William, Shirer. „The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.” RosettaBooks, 2011-10-22T22:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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