What did the allies do about this, both during and after the war? The British trained Polish commandos, harbored the government in exile, and declared war on Germany when they were invaded, so the allies must have condemned such an attack on a people and demanded retribution, correct? Even Germany helped Polish prosecutors to procure documents after the fall of the USSR. Cizek notes, "[A]ccess was granted to twenty-six volumes of archival documents, containing 400 documents each...which [were] captured by the Germans in 1941." Old enemies were able to put aside their differences to try and dispense justice, so therefore the allies must have done enough to punish the Soviets, right?  The sad reality is too little was done and far, far too late. Britain and France did not send any aid to Poland after the German/Soviet invasion, and were far too concerned with the well-being of themselves to see the bigger picture of a global conflict. While it is true that Churchill absolutely despised Communism, Stalin, and the USSR, they still entered into an alliance with a nation that violated not only Polish sovereignty, but occupied Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian soil under the guise of protection. The most damning evidence of the allies' refusal to act comes from the post-war period, where the allies allowed the USSR to serve as a major power in the United Nations. Politically, it was smart. Tensions with the Soviets were high and to deny them power in post-war Europe could have reignited conflict and disrupt the peace everyone had worked so hard to earn. Yet, was it moral? If the U.N. had held put the Soviets on trial, what would have happened? Is making a deal with the devil worth it if in the end it means peace? Is it truly peace if it comes at the cost of thousands of innocent lives?  The answer to these is quite outside the scope of this paper, but what is known is Britain's interaction with the aforementioned Witold Pilecki. Witold tried to send them a report of his findings  to the British in a desperate bid for aide. The entire report can be read on Archive.org, and features quite vivid and brutal descriptions of the Holocaust and the operations of the Aushwitz-Birkeneau camp. After reading the report, the British disregarded it as "over-exaggerated" and was discarded. This gross incompetence should help one to come to a decision whether or not the Allies did enough to help Poland.