Why?!The Argus wrote:Right back to Poland.
force would have made it home, but I submit precious few of them. After the fall of Poland, Poles became in effect stateless
untill the government in excile got started. Thus neutral countries like the Baltic states (for a brief period), Czechslovakia, Hungary etc, had no problem letting Poles slip through their territory as refugees to third countries who were willing to except them, mainly France. [/quote]
Not true. They were interned in every country (or almost every,m to be safe. It was jsut it was extremley easy fr Polish soldiers to escape from Hungary, and not that much harder from Romania etc, despite best efforts of German diplomats (who officially didn't care about that, while unofficially did everything to stop that).
Yup. Mikolajczak at the end of war told Churchill something in sense, that Poland had committed so and so many divisions, and Churchill answered that he can took all his divisions back, and he don't need it (he dind't in 1944).The point I think we've both forgotten here, is that there was a government in exile who surely had the responcibility for representing their forces. If they didn't see fit (for what ever reason) to think of pulling their men out once the situation had become evident then why are we talking about Chruchill? I'm not expert on the details, but I would assume, that the POlish Govt IN exile must have had some idea of what was going on, even of the western allies didn't tell them anything about the deals with Moscow, the very fact that there were allied conferences and they were not being told what was happening with their country, should have given them some hint to which way the wind was blowing.
But this was NO option as this would totally marginalised Polish case and further legitimize communist puppets. Despite, Polish army,a s brutal as it sounds, did not existed without allied support. If Mikolajczyk would say Ok, i take out my divisions, it wouldn't hurt in 1944 allied position large, but 1) Polish army woiuld stop to exists 2) in what light would that put Polish government? The honour word had still large importance for Polish army during WWII. It was just no option to cease the fight.
Churchill knew that as well.