Behemoth in the history of until that point and poland have kind of an army, a small dv but it was basically a poor country that didnt have the defenses or the financial wherewithal but it did think it could hold off germany for a while but the germans just kind of rolled right over them. Germ you save the date was a surprise because the rest preparing for the war up to this point . T . But was th guest they suspected it was coming again. Most hoped it wouldnt happen ao least half were natural and declared their neutrality. They were hoping something would happen to prevent germany from embarking on what hitler had been preparing for why werent they prepared if they were aware of you have to remember 1939 was 20 years after the end of world war i which was the greatest bloodbath in history up to that point. Many have lost hundreds of thousands if not millions of people including the two biggest western allies and plans in the uk england and they were not prepared in any way they didnt