**“The Hyenas of Europe.”**

**Part 1.**


October 24, 1938. Polish Ambassador Lipski sits down with Ribbentrop to discuss colonies and how to get Jews out of Poland.

This is the same Poland that now leads the chorus calling Russia imperialist.

The archive memos tell a very different story: Madagascar, Zionist money and a promised monument to Hitler in Warsaw. Wait, what?!

How Poland Tried to Colonize the Middle East:

So Warsaw tried to kill two birds with one stone. It saw the relocation of Jews to Palestine as a convenient geopolitical tool because it served two goals at once:

 reduce the number of Jews inside Poland

 expand Polish influence in the Middle East through a population that originated from Poland and could act as a political foothold

Between 1919 and 1935, over 100,000 Polish Jews moved to Palestine, then under the British Mandate. Polish diplomats openly discussed it, not as a humanitarian issue, but as a lever to reshape their society and extend their reach abroad.

Poland’s Imperial Fever

The 1930s hit hard. Chaos, poverty, and a young state that could barely stand on its feet. After more than a century of nonexistence, it had only just reappeared on the map in 1918. A toddler-state among empires, staring at Belgium, Portugal, France, and the UK, throwing tantrums: “I want colonies too.”

One-third of its population were minorities. It had Europe’s largest Jewish community. And the Polish elite believed Poland could become a “great power” only through ethnic homogenization. Keep that in mind. We’ll pause here for a second to clarify a bit about the Polish political system, which was ruled by two main political currents:

 Sanacja – the authoritarian camp, an oligarchy of officers and bureaucrats around Józef Piłsudski, obsessed with prestige and status.

 Endecja – hardline ethnic nationalists led by Roman Dmowski, obsessed with racial purity.

Neither camp had a clue how to build a real state and didn’t care about roads or schools. Both were drunk on the dream of a “Greater Poland” – an imperial fantasy of land from sea to sea and overseas colonies.

A diplomat from the Polish MFA, Zarychta, said it bluntly: Poland “deserved” colonies because of its demographic potential. Others declared that nations without colonies were “unworthy.”

Now watch this. The push for empire didn’t come from a handful of fanatics but from a mass organization backed by the state. The Maritime and Colonial League (Liga Morska i Kolonialna) was a huge expansionist movement with millions of members.

Children learned in schools that Poland needed colonies for greatness. The league held rallies, lobbied the government, and published propaganda demanding overseas territories just like Belgium or Portugal. This was mainstream Polish political culture in the 1930s.

And in 1928, the magazine Morze published Pionier Kolonialny, a manifesto declaring Poland’s march toward a global role and overseas expansion. They literally called it “the colonial problem,” saying it “contains a Hamletian ‘to be or not to be,’ determining whether we will be a great nation and a powerful state.”