i mean no disrespect john
but the simple fact is americans in general have no clue about world history - let alone european history.
just as most of us europeans have no indepth knowledge about american history.
the fact you think ww2 wasn't started by germany invading poland shows you know nothing about history.
The Soviet union ALSO INVADED POLAND in September 1939, A very inconvenient fact the mass media likes to forget.
The communist butchers of the soviet union MURDERED 15.000 of the Polish elite in the spring of 1940, The Katyn forest massacre.
NO ONE declared war against the soviet union (only against germany), instead they turned half of Europe over to the Soviets at the end of the war.
The ONLY reason for world war 2 being fought against Germany was that Hitler had freed Germany from the international banking system. Something Kennedy was about to do when he was murdered
"Germany's unforgivable crime before the second world war," Churchill said," was her attempt to extricate her economic power from the world's trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance its opportunity to profit."
(Churchill to Lord Robert Boothby, quoted in the Foreword, 2nd Ed. Sydney Rogerson, 'Propaganda in the Next War' 2001, orig. 1938.