West, the destruction of Poland remains the priority. 227 What is clear from this is that while the combination of forces facing him in the summer of 1939 were not as he had hoped or planned for, it was a combination that he was nonetheless willing to risk going to war with due to the superiority of the Reich’s military machine and its imperative to overcome the structural pressures and constraints outlined in the previous chapters.
227 Ibid, p. 246.
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