Just a few days prior to this, the defeat, dismantling, and Communization of Poland appeared absolutely inevitable. Had that occured, and it appeared inevitable, with Trotsky at the helm of the Red Army, the open question really would have been whether German Communist would have rose in rebellion against the republican socialist Weimar government and the Red Army crossed into Germany.
Now it was questionable whether the Red Army could form a stable defensive line against the Poles. The collapse of the Soviet Union was once again a real possibility.
It was a stunning reversal of fortunes in very little time.
On the same day, a rebellion broke out in German Silesia on the part of Poles. This involved German sentiments in the region as Germans had broken out in celebration. . . and looting upon reading a false report on the fall of Warsaw. The anti Polish feelings were so strong among Germans in this mixed ethnicity region that they assumed the end had come for Poland and were glad of it. When it soon became clear that this was not the case, Poles rose up in rebellion.
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