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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
I think you're underestimating the anti-German feeling and minimising the importance propganda and political indoctrination would have several years into the war.
Don't forget that in Polish eyes, it was the Germans who started the war by invading.
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I don't think I am underestimating that feeling, but also recognizing the anti-Russian & anti-Soviet feelings. As of the end of 1999, the Germans aren't now in Poland, but the Soviets still are. If the Grand Plan works, there won't be either in Poland. Since we can be sure the Polish government-in-exile is anti-Communist, I'm suggesting that they weight that more strongly.
Anti-German and anti-NATO propaganda by the Polish Communist government and Pact, and the invasion by the Germans, should be a contributing factor why the Polish soldiers don't all defect. [War-weariness should be another.]
I am willing to consider that a flaw in the plan was that the PFC hoped that only American and/or British troops would be the forces involved in the 2000 offensive, but NATO didn't/couldn't/wouldn't make that happen. The presence of the German forces following the American XI Corps fed into anti-German feeling, and some Poles that might have switched sides, didn't.
Sidebar: I wonder who in Krakow, the PFC might have tried to sway to their side? Who would they see as leaning their way, and who could promise to switch over (whether or not he meant it)? Kutrzeba or Bohusz-Szyszko? I haven't read the module in a long time, but the former seems like the guy to do that. What about Filipowicz?