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Shouldn't have handed it over

posted 12 years ago by chris12345678
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Quote from a source:

Soviet units often met their German counterparts advancing from the opposite direction. Notable examples of co-operation occurred between the two armies in the field. The Wehrmacht passed the Brest Fortress to the Soviet 29th Tank Brigade, which had been seized after the Battle of Brześć Litewski on 17 September. German General Heinz Guderian and Soviet Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein on 22 September held a joint parade in the town.

To clarify: that battle on 17 September was against the Poles, the owners of the town and fortress. Then Germans handed it over and must have regretted it later after what happened as the movie shows. There's gotta be a lesson in this.

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[–] chris12345678 12 years ago

::Politics intervened between the Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact 1939 and Barbarossa 1941.

You're right of course. It's easy to be wise knowing what happened later.

[–] Squeeth2 12 years ago

A bit like Britain and France handing over the Sudetenland in 1938.

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