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Ive tried to look into this years back, but I ran into an issue of citations that indicated that the Poles were actively attacking german soldiers. The narrative goes that Germans dressed up as Poles and started ransacking Germans that were trapped within their borders, but I wasn't able to find any citations and/or proof to corroborate this. Germany claims that the Poles attacked Germans that were within the Polish Borders, and Occam's razor would favor the German narrative.

Edit: I'm gramattically and Syntaxally retarded

In Poland in those towns at the border its always been believed that Germans were pretending to be Polish people dressed as German soldiers who attacked other German soldiers.

That's still a declaration of war. I don't get why there's such a need do dance around this. Declaring war isn't bad or evil, there's many legitimate reasons to declare war.

I thought was over a contract for screwing in light bulb's sopposedly goodly. But done poorly.

Excerpt from a German newsreel, aired on 23 August, 1939, a week before the war: https://files.catbox.moe/gtcodq.webm

Subtitled by yours truly for Voat. Explains exactly how and why the conflict started. And yet, it was never translated for English speaking audiences before. You won't find it elsewhere. More info and full newsreel in this thread: https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=613b10d4c2e64

Huge chunks of Germany were stolen by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. All the Germans who lived there, for hundreds of years, were forcefully made Polish against their will overnight. Over the course of the following 20 years, they were forbidden to teach their children German and faced abuse and starvation. A huge refugee crisis ensued.

The current situation in Ukraine has striking parallels to that of Poland in 1939:

Modern day Ukraine is also a country created from territories that used to belong to several other countries. It also contains different ethnic groups, speaking different languages. It is also supported by a Western alliance, which also built up their confidence, and is also failing to truly come to their aid in a decisive way. In recent years, Ukraine also moved to promote Ukrainian and discourage Russian.

However:

Under Soviet rule, the Russians did exactly the same and worse to Ukrainians. Aside from the forced starvation of the Holodomor, they also forced Ukrainians to speak only Russian. Anyone caught speaking Ukrainian, let alone teaching their children, faced years in jail. The Ukrainian language was nearly wiped out; two generations never learned to speak it. They chose to revive it, after the Soviet Union fell apart, as an act of defiance. That's why they're insisting on Ukrainian now.

The parts of Ukraine that used to be Russian, and still contain mostly Russian speakers today, were not taken from Russia by force, nor by some treaty concocted by third party alliances. They were made Ukrainian by Russia itself, voluntarily, when it dissolved the Soviet Union. And the Russians who didn't like it didn't flee to Russia, but instead launched violent rebellions, sponsored and armed by Russia. Most Russian speakers in the Ukraine are opposed to the invasion, and actively fighting back against it. And Russia isn't saving them, but besieging and bombing those very eastern cities which are full of former Russians.

In some ways, Putin's position is very similar to Hitler's back then. In others, it is the exact opposite.

Regardless, this is exactly how world wars start. Failure to learn from history, and all that.

Atrocities of Poland (pdf) https://files.catbox.moe/ma9u1y.pdf

I knew a woman who lived it. She was of German decent living in Poland at the time. They had to flee to Germany, then returned back to Poland to their farmland. Then had to flee again when Russians were advancing. Wonderful woman and that was a very hard time in her life.