On Sept. 1, 1939, 70 years ago, the German Army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, Britain declared war. Six years later, 50 million Christians and Jews had perished. Britain was broken and bankrupt, Germany a smoldering ruin. Europe had served as the site of the most murderous combat known to man, and civilians had suffered worse horrors than the soldiers. By May 1945, Red Army hordes occupied all the great capitals of Central Europe: Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Berlin. A hundred million Christians were under the heel of the most barbarous tyranny in history: the Bolshevik regime of the greatest terrorist of them all, Joseph Stalin. What cause could justify such sacrifices? The German-Polish war had come out of a quarrel over a town the size of Ocean City, Md., in summer. Danzig, 95 percent German, had been severed from Germany at Versailles in violation of Woodrow Wilson’s principle of self-determination. Even British leaders thought Danzig should be returned. Why did Warsaw not negotiate with Berlin, which was hinting at an offer of compensatory territory in Slovakia? Because the Poles had a war guarantee from Britain that, should Germany attack, Britain and her empire would come to Poland’s rescue. But why would Britain hand an unsolicited war guarantee to a junta of Polish colonels, giving them the power to drag Britain into a second war with the most powerful nation in Europe? Was Danzig worth a war? Unlike the 7 million Hong Kongese whom the British surrendered to Beijing, who didn’t want to go, the Danzigers were clamoring to return to Germany. Comes the response: The war guarantee was not about Danzig, or even about Poland. It was about the moral and strategic imperative “to stop Hitler†after he showed, by tearing up the Munich pact and Czechoslovakia with it, that he was out to conquer the world. And this Nazi beast could not be allowed to do that. If true, a fair point. Americans, after all, were prepared to use atom bombs to keep the Red Army from the Channel. But where is the evidence that Adolf Hitler, whose victims as of March 1939 were a fraction of Gen. Pinochet’s, or Fidel Castro’s, was out to conquer the world? After Munich in 1938, Czechoslovakia did indeed crumble and come apart. Yet consider what became of its parts. The Sudeten Germans were returned to German rule, as they wished. Poland had annexed the tiny disputed region of Teschen, where thousands of Poles lived. Hungary’s ancestral lands in the south of Slovakia had been returned to her. The Slovaks had their full independence guaranteed by Germany. As for the Czechs, they came to Berlin for the same deal as the Slovaks, but Hitler insisted they accept a protectorate. Now one may despise what was done, but how did this partition of Czechoslovakia manifest a Hitlerian drive for world conquest? Comes the reply: If Britain had not given the war guarantee and gone to war, after Czechoslovakia would have come Poland’s turn, then Russia’s, then France’s, then Britain’s, then the United States. We would all be speaking German now. But if Hitler was out to conquer the world — Britain, Africa, the Middle East, the United States, Canada, South America, India, Asia, Australia — why did he spend three years building that hugely expensive Siegfried Line to protect Germany from France? Why did he start the war with no surface fleet, no troop transports and only 29 oceangoing submarines? How do you conquer the world with a navy that can’t get out of the Baltic Sea? If Hitler wanted the world, why did he not build strategic bombers, instead of two-engine Dorniers and Heinkels that could not even reach Britain from Germany? Why did he let the British army go at Dunkirk? Why did he offer the British peace, twice, after Poland fell, and again after France fell? Why, when Paris fell, did Hitler not demand the French fleet, as the Allies demanded and got the Kaiser’s fleet? Why did he not demand bases in French-controlled Syria to attack Suez? Why did he beg Benito Mussolini not to attack Greece? Because Hitler wanted to end the war in 1940, almost two years before the trains began to roll to the camps. Hitler had never wanted war with Poland, but an alliance with Poland such as he had with Francisco Franco’s Spain, Mussolini’s Italy, Miklos Horthy’s Hungary and Father Jozef Tiso’s Slovakia. Indeed, why would he want war when, by 1939, he was surrounded by allied, friendly or neutral neighbors, save France. And he had written off Alsace, because reconquering Alsace meant war with France, and that meant war with Britain, whose empire he admired and whom he had always sought as an ally. As of March 1939, Hitler did not even have a border with Russia. How then could he invade Russia? Winston Churchill was right when he called it “The Unnecessary War†— the war that may yet prove the mortal blow to our civilization. This not mine, you can find the ORG article here. http:// http://buchanan.org/blog/did-hitler-want-war-2068 Wow clearly people did not read, they think I made this short story, are you really that stupid. And I like some peoples replies but most are ignorant. Thnaks people who have actually read the whole thing. AND ITS NOT MINE. Thank you.
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Why are you spouting this garbage from Pat Buchanan? Are you so lazy that you can't even think up your own rants?
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lol which is why you left the link blank. nice rant. no one cares
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YS, HE WAS THAT BAD, HE KILLED OVER A MILLION OF JEWS AND ATTEMTED TO RULE THE WORLD WITH HIS ALLEIS. HE WANTED WAR AND HE ALSO DESTROYED THE ECONOMY OF GERMANY BECAUSE OF THE WAR(WW2). RUSSIA AND UNITED KINDOM WERE AGAINS GERMANY(HITLER) AND HIS FRIENDS, AND THE US WAS AGAINS JAPAN, GERMANY WAS ALLIED WITH JAPAN AT THAT TIME, THE BOTH LOST THE WAR AND THE US AND FRIENDS WON THE WAR AND HITLER DIED BEACUSE OF WHAT HE DID. HE WAS A CRIMINAL AND WAS THE REASON OF SEVERAL OF CIVILIANS AND SOLDIERS DEATHS.
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The "German-Polish War" came out of the appeasement and groveling (sound familiar?) shown to Hitler after his annexation of Austria and most of Czechoslovakia. All the major powers, who had treaty obligations with Czechoslovakia, simply looked the other way and approved of Hitler's actions in the hope that would be his final conquest. Even following the invasion of Poland the French had 90 Divisions sitting on the German border and they did nothing. They could have crushed Germany in weeks and they sat.
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Lol, you say “As of March 1939, Hitler did not even have a border with Russia. How then could he invade Russia?â€â€¦â€¦dude where did you think Hitler went when he went EAST into Russia? You are an idiot. Also, please explain to me why Hitler declared war on the US if he didn’t want a world war? The rest of your rant is just rubbish. Something tells me you know nothing of WWII or the rearming of Germany, since you honestly believe Hitler was not a threat. Now go pick up a history book, you are wasting our time.
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when someone yells about Drang nach Osten [push to east, well >pull< to east, actually] in the open forum, it's quite obvious to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drang_nach_Osten if you are such a dumba$$ you cannot see that central Europe HAD, HAS, and WILL HAVE mixed ethnicities and that it's borders cannot be settled according to prevailing ethnicity, you will always have your "good" germans and "bad" rest of world. much like there were Germans in Sudeten, there were Czechs in Vienna. yup, i take it personally. i am from Czech republic, and i do not see the reason why Hitler should be apologised, let alone credited with good intentions. Czechoslowakia was a stable, democratic, peacefull country. there was no need to split it apart. the only reason Slowaks agreed on the Slowak fascist state, was the ANNOUNCEMENT of incoming invasion of Czech countries and the geerman threat of doing the same with slowaks. Danzig was just the cassus belli.
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he built shorter range planes at first because he needed to deal with his enemies closer to germany and there were plans to build long range bombers and they were being researched like the ju390 or the amerika bomber. I am guessing you're some neo-nazi racist/kkk member or something. How is not a bad person? He was a fanatical racist who had millions of people killed. sure not as many as stalin but stalin was at it for quite a few years.
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The real question is, is our history right. Because we won the war we could have said that hitler wanted to make cars that run on blood and that is why he killed so many people. In this particular situation I would have to say either yes he was bad because he wanted to murder everybody that wasn't Aryan. But if you look at it from his perspective all he wanted was to make a world without war or flaws. If you take that vision, mix it in with a little bight of insanity in the head you get an enemy to everyone except the Aryan Germans. I could go on all day but to the average sane man Hitler was an evil man.
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History sure has changed a lot from when I was in school because I don't remember it being taught like that.
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