There is a famous saying that is resounding all over the world: "A soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier", but few people know that in Poland, which fell in World War II, a marshal at the level of a national leader, in order to make up for it. As a result of his previous act of betraying the country, he insisted on returning to his motherland under the iron heel of the Nazis, concealed his identity, joined the Polish resistance organization under a pseudonym, and voluntarily downgraded himself to become an ordinary soldier.

This was the final choice of Marshal Edward Rez-Chimigwi, the actual leader of the Polish Republic before World War II.

Promotional posters of Marshal Himigwe at the peak of his life

However, compared to the legendary experience of "from general to soldier". What made Marshal Himigwe well known to future generations was his famous statement that in the event of a war between Poland and Germany, the Poles would occupy Germany within three days.

Concerning this sentence, many online articles have taken it out of context and wrote: During World War II, Poland clamored for the destruction of Germany in three days?, and they also included a serious and well-founded analysis with pictures and texts.

In fact, this "bold statement" was made in the early 1920s. After Poland was restored to its own country, it faced Germany, which was being slaughtered by the Allied Powers and whose economy and society were on the verge of collapse. It was just the emotion that Wei expressed when he stood on the border between Poland and East Prussia, Germany, and looked into the distance.

After World War I, Germany, East Prussia and the German mainland were forcibly separated by Poland

At this time, Poland's national strength was not weak in Eastern Europe, and it basically had a relatively complete In the military industry system, you can make machine guns, cannons, and tanks yourself. He also took advantage of the chaos after World War I to win several very impressive battles.

For example, in 1921, Poland sent troops to intervene in the Russian Revolution. At that time, the Polish army once invaded Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and its advance was so fast that it almost caught up with Nazi Germany's "Blitzkrieg" during World War II.

For example, at the beginning of this year, at a rally commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Polish President Duda invited Ukrainian President Zelenskiy to participate in the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw in March next year, pointing out that It is this "glorious history" in the early 1920s.

So, considering the situation back then, Himigwe’s words are not too outrageous.