[edwest2]

It needs to be untangled. After the invasion of 1939, there was a massacre of Polish troops. Polish General Anders was captured by the Russians and held in Lubyanka Prison, a former luxury hotel hotel where it was said the pile of the carpet was so thick, you could not hear men walking across it. The Russians tried to convince him to join their Army.

Other members of the Polish Armed Forces fled to other countries. Some members of the Polish Air Force fled to France and began flying against the Germans. Eventually, General Anders was released and other Polish troops joined the British Armed Forces. Part of the story is in the book, An Army in Exile by Wladyslaw Anders.

There were ethnic Poles in German territory and as I'm sure others have noticed, there are Luftwaffe pilots with distinctly Polish last names.