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Quote by: Gods_Mercenary  I can deal with some critical viewing of the allies, but Hitler was going to attack france and Britain whether they liked it or not. |
Was he? Until Poland both nations had bent over backwards for him. If anything they had helped him expand his borders, throughout the war Hitler actively sought peace with Britain.
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Quote by: Gods_Mercenary He might have prefered to take out the "inferior" slavs to provide lebensraum to attacking the supposedly more aryan french and British, but Hitler's entire set up of power was dependant on conquest. |
Conquest of areas with much needed natural resources, Russia yes... France not so much.
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Quote by: Gods_Mercenary He had devoted the entire nation to war, and if Gernmany did not conquer it would have soon ended up back in even further depression. If anything, WWII was fought because The British and French finally got the message when the whermacht devoured Poland like a ravenous dog, and because the U.S. and Soviets were forced into it. It is, however, the closest thing to a just argument for a war I can think of in history. |
We did not go to war to obtain justice for Poland, we know this because we had little problem with the annextion of Czecheslovakia nor with Russia's invasion of Poland. There may have been a just argument of war, but it is not the reason why we went to war. Britain and France declared war on Germany because to not was to accept a Europe headed by Germany.
If they had again bottled it and left Poland to its fate it is likely that we would now be praising Hitler for having saved Europe from the Communists.