Cooperation between the Reichswehr and Red Army before 1933 – facts and myths in Polish historiography Cover Image

Współpraca Reichswehry i Armii Czerwonej przed 1933 rokiem – fakty a mity polskiej historiografii
Cooperation between the Reichswehr and Red Army before 1933 – facts and myths in Polish historiography

Author(s): Krzysztof Fudalej
Subject(s): History, Diplomatic history, Military history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Germany; Reichswehr; USSR; Red Army; military cooperation; Treaty of Rapallo; arms industry; military training;

Summary/Abstract: A cooperation of Germany with the Soviet Union in the period before Adolph Hitler came to power, and especially its military aspect, still enjoys keen interest of Polish historians. Unfortunately, they base their study almost solely on the preserved documents of the Second Department of Polish General Staff and publications in Polish and English, without using accessible German and Russian archival materials or even published source material. This resulted in some myths on cooperation between the Reichswehr and Red Army being restated and preserved.The purpose of the present study is to rectify various persisting errors of the Polish literature on the subject on the basis of materials collected in German archives, complemented by the information from Germanand Russian-language publications and three publications of documents from Russian archives.

  • Issue Year: 49/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 56-77
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish