25 January 1939.Joachim von Ribbentrop is welcome by the Polish foreign secretery Józef Beck and the Polish Troops wearing German helmets.They were used especially for this occasion.Taken in Warsaw.
 
 
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Beck and Ribbentrop

The picture was taken on polish-lithuanian border in 1938.Until 1938 relations between these two countries were "not fantastic".But since spring 1938 ,those relations were better as they "kissed and make up" (it's a long story...)
 
 
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Polish "KOP" officers and Lithuanian guards.1938

The picture shows young Polish men from the 2nd Polish Corps commanded by gen.Władysław Anders.Most of them were seventeeen,eighteen,nineteen...
 
 
Most of them didn't know what a war means (just like young people from other countries-Hitlerjugend,the Soviet Army...)
 
 
They weren't forced to join the Army.Maybe they were dreaming of their country.Maybe they were thinking of some adventure.Maybe they were naive.Maybe they were influenced on the spur of the moment.Maybe they were too young to understand all the matters.Maybe the were just stupid...
 
 
This picture was not uploaded to populaarize anything.It was uploaded to show how young people were.How young they were dying and how much should we respect them.....
 
 
komandos10 (with my neutral intention)