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Why did Britain declare war for a cause and country it could not defend? Why did Britain turn a German-Polish war into a World War that would surely bankrupt her and bring down the Empire, while she could not achieve her declared war goal of a liberated and independent Poland?

What vital British interest was imperilled by Adolf Hitler's retrieval of a port city, Danzig, that had been severed from Germany against the will of its 300,000 people and handed to Poland at Versailles in 1919? Danzigers never wanted to leave Germany, and 90% wanted to return. Even the British Cabinet thought Germany had a case and that Danzig should be returned.

Why then did Britain go to war?

The level of betrayal that Poles experienced after WW2 is on the level of the betrayal experienced by Germans after WW1 and the Versailles Dictate. Perhaps worse, because Poland was egged on to fight Germany by people who soon abandoned her. As Ralph Raico says about Roosevelt, there is a special kind of hatred that is reserved for those that manipulate you into doing things that you otherwise would not have done.