It shows once again how everyone assumed Hitler would attack the USSR.
Tom Send a noteboard - 31/12/2011 08:01:46 PM
The question is why the UK and France chose to support the Polish intransigence over Danzig. Even assuming they felt backed into a corner by Munich and the subsequent annexation of Czechoslovakia, they could have argued that Germany had a right to the corridor.
I'm amazed at how colored our view of the 1930s is by subsequent events. For example, the whole "we should have known that Hitler was going to murder 6 (really 4.2) million Jews because of Kristallnacht" (ignoring the rampant anti-semitism elsewhere in Europe) or "it was clear Germany wanted war" (when in fact people assumed, correctly, that it wasn't ready for war).
I'm amazed at how colored our view of the 1930s is by subsequent events. For example, the whole "we should have known that Hitler was going to murder 6 (really 4.2) million Jews because of Kristallnacht" (ignoring the rampant anti-semitism elsewhere in Europe) or "it was clear Germany wanted war" (when in fact people assumed, correctly, that it wasn't ready for war).
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
/Personal: Grandfather's journal and clippings from Spring/Summer 1939
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It shows once again how everyone assumed Hitler would attack the USSR.
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