Meet The Man Who Started World War II



Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz



Hitler’s skillful and honest diplomacy resolved the Alsace-Lorraine dispute to France’s favor, and the Sudetenland problem to the benefit of all parties. Left: with UK’s Neville Chamberlain, Right: with Daladier of France



Pilsudski (l) and Smigly-Rydz fought for Polish statehood.







1- Hitler attends a Berlin Memorial Service held in honor of Pilsudski, whom he respected greatly.



2- Pilsudski and his Foreign Minister Beck (left) make peace with German Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, Joseph Goebbels, and German Ambassador to Poland, von Moltke.







Smigly-Rydz: always decorated like a Christmas tree and talking big.







Dreams of restoring Poland’s long gone Empire danced i ’Emperor’ Smigly’s mind



1- Lithuania and Czechoslovakia were both strong-armed by ’Emperor’ Smigly.

2- Uninvited, Polish tanks roll into annexed Zaolzie. A few Polish flags are visible, but the people don’t seem too excited.



