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Józef Piłsudski used Adolf Hitler 's rise to power and international isolation of Germany's new regime as an opportunity to reduce the risk that Poland would become the first victim of German aggression or of a Great Power deal (especially the Four Power Pact ). Germany new rulers seemed to depart from the traditionally Prussia n Anti-Polish orientation. Piłsudski regarded the new chancellor as less dangerous than his immediate predecessors, going back to Gustav Stresemann , and saw the Soviet Union as the greater threat, to the point where he opposed French and Czechoslovak efforts to include the Soviet Union in a common front against Nazi Germany. In the text of the treaty the Poles insisted on stating that it did not nullify any previous international agreements, in particular the with Germany instead. To allay any fears that the warming of relations between Poland and its western neighbor were anything but peaceful, on May 5 , 1934 Poland renewed the Polish-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact , first signed in July 25 , 1932 . As a consequence of the treaty, Poland was able to maintain friendly relations with Germany for the next five years, while maintaining good relations with France and Great Britain, though it may have also led to foreign policy inattentiveness regarding the activities of the crumbling League Of Nations and disinterest in the collective security schemes proposed by French in the early 1930s. German policy changed drastically in late , as Germany renewed its territorial claims in Poland. After another few months of rising tension, Germany Invaded Poland on September 1 , 1939 , initiating the Second World War . SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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