How did the world view the Nazis before they invaded Poland?

Right wing populists tended to admire them, but most saw them as dangerous thugs with comical salutes.

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>""""invaded"""" (((Pooland)))

http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/deathinpoland/dp00.html

>Search "Important quotations for a better understanding of ww2"

DAILY REMINDER THAT POLAND MOBILIZED ITS TROOPS FIRST IN AUGUST OF 1939, WHICH AMOUNTED TO A DE FACTO DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY

On top of that, Poland previously made multiple offerings towards France during the 20's and 30's to invade Germany, this was known to Berlin since a long time.

Then there was also:

- Countless polish atrocities commited against ethnic germans between 1918 1939 (bromberg bloody sunday et al)
- Violation of the minority treaties by Poland in 1937
- Britain and France delivering a guarantee to Poland that they'd invade Germany if Germany defends itself against polish agression, which made Poland decline all the german peace offerings (this also violated the polish-german friendship treaty from 1934 btw)
- Poland ignoring the proposed 16 point peace plan of hitler

http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Chronologie_antideutscher_Gewalt_von_Polen
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Polnische_Verbrechen_an_Volksdeutschen_zwischen_1918_und_1939
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Polen_als_Aggressor_1918%E2%80%931938
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Polnischer_Imperialismus
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Polenfeldzug#Eskalation_durch_polnische_Grenzprovokationen
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Danziger_Zollinspektorenstreit
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Abstimmungsgebiet_Oberschlesien#Polnischer_Terror
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Polnische_Pa%C3%9Fkrise
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Polnische_Konzentrationslager
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Oder-Nei%C3%9Fe-Linie#Polnische_und_panslawistische_Grenzvorstellungen_vor_dem_Zweiten_Weltkrieg
http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Urpolnische_Erde

>>1724097
>Poland mobilized its forces first

Yes

Because Germany had been fully mobilized since the Munich Crisis in 1938

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>>1721952
Wrong, Hitler was actually quite popular and well liked before Kristallnacht and the Munich Conference.

pic related

>>1724373

Fucking osama was man of the year. Man of the year in Time is not a compliment

>>1724373
>for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year

>>1724398
And prior to 2001, Osama was well liked in the West. OP wanted to know how the Nazis were viewed prior to the outbreak of war. Making it as Time's Man of the Year is/was a compliment in the West until you do something to fuck that up.

>>1724451
> Osama was well liked in the West
Is this true, Mehmed? Why would he be liked?

>>1724464
Freedom fighter mentality that was thought of the Mujahideen in general. Osama didn't get called out as an enemy of the west until 9/11

>>1724451
>And prior to 2001, Osama was well liked in the West.
Prior to 1988, maybe. He was on the FBI ten most wanted list in the late 90s.

>>1724451
>Making it as Time's Man of the Year is/was a compliment in the West until you do something to fuck that up.
But that's patently wrong, faggot.

>>1724097
nice """""sources""""