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DeSegnacApril 7th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Long before Hitler attacked Poland, Germany developed plans to attack it. The propaganda against Poland was rampant and actions of "uniting" German speaking "volks" were already in full swing.
Pat is taking events out of the "Hitlerite" context that swept Europe at that time. Admiration of nazi's and the Italian fascists handling of domestic affairs, i.e., "efficiency" of the state, was very much desired in post depression miserably confused Europe and even the USA.
That was also EXPECTED in the foreign affairs and the ease with which Germany acquired Sudetenland and other concessions before and after that, proves this point.
The grandiose land grabbing apetites of Germany of that time (Lebensraum of Poland, Russia, etc. for the Deutsche volk) could not be accomplished but through war. That is what the nazis were saying at that time. And thus the war was INEVITABLE.
In the end, Pat's article is bordering with revision of history.
notuApril 7th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
of course the fact that the nazi's manifesto and rise to power was explicitly predicated on some kind of apocalyptic struggle with the communists (aka jews, homos, sub-human slavs, etc) does not warrant consideration whether the likely breakout of war on the eastern front would be anything but welcome to the western powers. Hitler's Germany would be western capitalism's agent of entirely justified boundless wrath against those bastard bolsheviks. The inferno that would follow , added to the then-already-ongoing slaughter in China, would only be in the west's best interests and would certainly not be labeled as unnecessary or the greatest carnage history had ever seen. This direction of thinking is evident in more current "events"
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