Fourth of five parts

I WANT to show you another document — a transcript of Adolf Hitler’s conversation with Foreign Minister of Poland Jozef Beck on Jan. 5, 1939. This document is indicative. It is a sort of distillation of the joint policy of the German Reich and Poland on the eve of, in the course of and after the end of the Czechoslovakia crisis. The content is cynical in its attitude towards neighboring nations and Europe as a whole. And it clearly illustrates the contours of the Polish-German alliance as a striking force against Russia.

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