During World War ii, Russia and Germany brutally divided Poland. Since June, German soldiers have returned to Poland, this time to help build barricades against Russia. “The German sappers have done an excellent job,” Polish Gen. Stanislaw Czosnek said after inspecting the works on August 20, as quoted by Deutsche Welle on Friday.

This follows Poland’s government allowing the deployment of German fighter jets on its soil in August 2025 and March 2026.

This is a drastic change from Poland’s prior stance toward German soldiers on its territory.

• In 2014, the head of the then ruling Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said it would take “at least seven generations” before German soldiers on Polish soil would be acceptable.
• In 2022, the Polish government blocked the relocation of two German Patriot batteries to Poland.
• Even with the Law and Justice party no longer in power, Polish President Karol Nawrocki stopped Poland from accessing around $55 billion in European Union defense loans in March because of the potential benefit to German arms companies.

“East Shield”: Yet 40 personnel from the German Army’s Combat Engineering Unit have been deployed near Budry in Masuria, close to the Russian border, until October. They are helping construct the “East Shield” project, which includes fortifications and natural terrain obstacles designed to slow a Russian ground invasion.

Lukasz Jasinski, analyst at the Polish Institute for International Affairs, told Deutsche Welle:

Above all, the participation of German sappers has politically symbolic significance. Poland wants to convince Germany and other partners that Poland’s eastern border is also the external border of the EU and nato. Our Western partners should treat this border a bit like their own.

While Poland was still behind the Iron Curtain, the late educator Herbert W. Armstrong wrote in 1980:

Will Poland free itself from Soviet domination and join with Yugoslavia, Romania and possibly Czechoslovakia—and with Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Austria—in a resurrected medieval “Holy Roman Empire” to dominate Europe and equal the ussr and the U.S.A. in world power?

Poland’s pivot toward Germany is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy, as explained in our free booklet He Was Right.