But what Kasia’s father hadn’t taken into account was that Britain had signed a nonaggression pact with Hitler, and therefore, it turned out, its agreement with distant impoverished Poland wasn’t worth the ink used to sign it. As for the French, they decided that coming to our aid really wasn’t, in the end, an efficient use of their money or manpower. Therefore, while the British and French made their excuses, the Germans mowed us over.
