| Notes | News 18 Sep: German and Russian troops met for the first time at Brest-Litovsk, the Russian and German commanders exchanging courtesies. It was stated on the following day that Brest-Litovsk would be taken over by Russia ... [Keesing's Contemporary Archives p.3743] Herr Hitler's Danzig Speech. Sept. 19 ... Meanwhile the Russian troops have marched into the Ukraine and White Russia to protect Russia's interests. We have seen that in Great Britain this co-operaton between Germany and Russia has been regarded as a crime... To these Western outbursts I give this answer: Russia remains what she is - namely, Bolshevist, and Germany remains what she is - namely, National-Socialist. ... [Keesing's Contemporary Archives p. 3736]
Despite the Nazi-Societ Pact of 28 Augusut 1939, the Soviets and the Nazis remained, inevitably, opposed. Although they had agreed, secretly, to divide Poland, once the Nazis had consolidated their gains, the Soviets stood their ground, refusing to sanction a Nazi advance. |