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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, Episode 107, Highway to the Danger

Zone.

You got to take it right into the danger zone.

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provided to Poland by the British government in the spring of 1939 was not the only agreement

that would be reached in the months before the war. As we discussed last episode, there were

discussions between the British, French, and Soviet governments with the goal of creating

some kind of mutual assistance pack, but the discussions never really went anywhere. The

lethargic nature of those talks can be traced back to the lack

of urgency shown by the Western governments when it came to getting the pact in place, and the

Soviet insistence that any agreement could only be signed after meaningful military planning

took place. What would not lead lethargic was Germany's attempt in August 1939 to sign a non-aggression

pact with the Soviet Union.

And in this episode, we will look at those efforts.

The discussions that would occur among Hitler and the German military at the same time that

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