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I think they tried to address it but may not have had access to still living participants (edit) of the invasion of Poland after both German and Russian massacres (like Katyn).
The producer touches on that in the second episode (A distant war).
"Tells it very much from a British point of view, the title gives it away. There was nothing distant about the war in the Autumn of 1939 if you lived in Warsaw".
At 18 minutes into the program they have a Conservative MP (Lord Boothby) who states "We'd gone to war for the defense of Poland. In the event we did nothing to help Poland at all. We never lifted a finger."
Needing film stock from Russia may also have played a part.
If anybody wants a copy of the series PM me. I have kept it on the harddrive for years (20GB).
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Moorhouse points in particular to Thames TV’s 1970s documentary The
World at War, which, throughout 26 hour-long episodes, did not feature
one interview with a Pole.“It’s absurd: the producers were willing to fly to Moscow to interview
[Soviet General Georgy] Zhukov or to Heidelberg to meet [Hitler’s ally
Albert] Speer, but they didn’t get the train up to Edinburgh to speak
to Polish General [Stanisław] Maczek, who settled in Britain after
liberating Belgium and the Netherlands.” -
At 18 minutes into the program they have a Conservative MP (Lord Boothby) who states "We'd gone to war for the defense of Poland. In the event we did nothing to help Poland at all. We never lifted a finger."
Going to leave my post up but hadn't read this before posting and, obviously, hadn't remembered that this was in the documentary. I still maintain that it is highly unusual to acknowledge this fact at the time the documentary was made
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Bobbo
Not much on the Poles either, it was claimed there were zero leading interviews with Polish people the entire series.