Even more interesting is why the French army (which was the strongest in all of Europe at that time) didn't knock out Germany in Sept. 1939 (after declaring war on Germany in Sept. 3) by advancing into the industrial heart of Germany (marked with the yellow circle in my map) ????
Another piece to complete this puzzle is supplied in
an article by Cynthia Chung of Rising Tide Foundation. She says that during March and April of 1939, Stalin was trying to negotiate a mutual defense treaty with Germany and France.
On March 18th 1939 at Stalin’s direction Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, proposed that France, Britain, Poland, Russia, Romania and Turkey join together at a conference to draw up a treaty to stop Hitler. Chamberlain was strongly against the idea, writing to a friend: “I must confess to the most profound distrust of Russia. I have no belief whatever in her ability to maintain an effective offensive, even if she wanted to. And I distrust her motives.” (2)
On April 14th 1939, Lord Halifax, British Foreign Minister said that Britain would not extend an alliance to Russia in case Germany were to attack. Russia was clearly being told to go at it alone.
On April 16th 1939, Stalin had Litvinov propose to Sir William Seeds the British ambassador, that Russia, France and Britain make a pact that would bind their three countries to declare war on Germany if they or any nation between the Baltic and the Mediterranean were attacked.
Great Britain and France refused.
(2) P 162, Susan Butler’s “Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership”
Chung thinks that it was as a result of these rebuffs that Stalin went on to negotiate the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, temporarily establishing a truce with Germany and facilitating the division of Poland into German and Russian sectors. This all unfolded simultaneously with France's fake assault on the German heartland.
In answer to Suchender's question "why the French army didn't knock out Germany in Sept. 1939", perhaps the answer is that the French wanted to leave Hitler's armies intact so that they could fight the Russians?
Chung goes on to say that Roosevelt's America took a very different path from the French and British, choosing to form an alliance with Russia in spite of their fears that Russia was equally as dangerous to Europe as Hitler. She says:
Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease program was a major factor in Russia’s salvation. The list of goods that Roosevelt committed to send to the Soviet Union was astounding. It included shipments every month of 400 planes, 500 tanks, 5,000 cars, 10,000 trucks and huge quantities of anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, diesel generators, field telephones, radios, motorcycles, wheat, flour, sugar, 200,000 pairs of boots, 500,000 pairs of surgical gloves and 15,000 amputation saws. By the end of October 1941, ships were carrying 100 bombers, 100 fighter planes, 166 tanks all with spare parts and ammunition, plus 5,500 trucks. (5)
(5) p. 165, ibid
I happened to run across this article at strategic-culture.org. And I happened to be surfing at strategic-culture.org, because I was looking for some reply to the
US State Department's accusation that Strategic Culture Foundation is a front for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service. There seems to be no doubt that strategic-culture.org's URL is registered in Moscow. Although the website recruited several columnists to ridicule the claim that they are a front for the Russian government, there is no actual denial to be found. Nor any information about who is running the website, if it isn't Russian intelligence.