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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode 110, the September

campaign part two, Polish Rearmament.

Last episode, we discussed some of the political developments that had occurred in Poland in the years before the war.

This episode, we are going to focus solely on the developments of the Polish military.

The Polish military that would meet the German invasion in 1939 was not a backward-thinking, poorly equipped military by the standards of Europe at this time. There had been a large amount of investment made to

try and equip the Army and Air Force with the best military equipment available, but there were

limits to what a smaller nation like Poland could do. It would be the limit on resources

and not incorrect assumptions about how the war would be fought that would be the greatest

problem for the Polish forces in September 1939. This episode will evolve around how that

military was prepared, first looking at the military budgets of the 1930s, before moving into a

discussion of the equipment that the money would be used to purchase, before closing out

with discussions of how the Polish military was organized. All of these items are crucial to

understanding why the Polish campaign developed as it did, and the plans for national defense were created,

which we will discuss next episode.

They were all driven and constructed within the constraints of the available equipment,

which for Poland was quite limited.

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