Hitler did not want war! This is how the jews lured him into Poland. At the Treaty of Versailles, a crippled Germany was carved up. After redrawing the boundaries, approximately seven million Germans were living under foreign occupation in neighboring countries. By looking at this map provided below, you can visualize how many ethnic Germans were now stuck living in the area known as Poland. Bolsheviks in poland had been slaughtering German nationals, and they had killed approximately 58,000 German nationals in the Danzig corridor during the months leading up to the German invasion.