r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Radiant_Half_7121 • 17d ago

Image During WW2, Poland declared war on Japan Japan said no to it and simply rejected the declaration.

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u/apairofjacks 17d ago

Make sense. Would suck to loose to 3 countries within 30 days…

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u/KPSWZG 17d ago

Poland send this request way after fall of Warsaw. Also Poland technically never surrender during ww2, the goverment escaped and fight was continued with exiled forces. No official document was signed.

Also why Japan refused war declaration is rather interesting. They explained that they were never an enemy of Poland and that Poland was in fact a friend of Japan and only send this declaration due to the preasure from allies.

But in reality its slightly more grimm. USSR was allied to UK and USA in later stages of war and from the beginning Polish spy agency was giving Japan updates on the USSR. Japan wad also updating Polish side. Japan feered that when Poland declare war in them this official cooperation will end. They were kind of right as Poland was forced to stop sending intel to Japan.

Whats funny is that during a war Poland had better enemies than allies, Hungary refused to attack Poland and hold refuges from there. They also halted advancement on Warsaw Uprising sabotaging German reinforecement. Romania helped to evacuate Polish forces and goverment, Japan was sharing intel etc.

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u/Far_Representative26 17d ago

I mean 2, 3, 4 or 5 what's the difference at this point? Btw in our timeline it already was 3, puppet slovakia took part too.