re: WHO was the “bad guy” of WWII?

Chamberlain was PM when Britain declared war on Germany. Chamberlain wanted to keep the peace because the British army was in no condition for a big war. Apparently, they thought they were a year later, and he was replaced when British forces were failing.

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Well, where was Britain and France when the Soviet Union invaded Poland just two weeks after Germany did?

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Their guarantee to Poland was made explicitly to deter German aggression. While there was talk of potentially declaring war on the Soviet Union after Red Army forces crossed into eastern Poland, they decided not to do this. However, the Allies came precariously close to attacking the Soviet Union during the Winter War of 1939-40. With Finland struggling to hold on, the British wanted to bomb the Russian oilfields around Baku. They also discussed landing troops in northern Norway, marching them across Sweden, and into Finland to help them fight the Red Army. That's one of the reasons why the Norwegian campaign eventually went down in the spring of 1940.

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Hitler actually offered peace several times only for Britain and France to ignore him. Hitler only invaded other countries like Belgium or the Netherlands, for example, to secure strategic areas that could’ve been used as staging areas for attacks on Germany.

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Oh, yeah. Hitler definitely offered peace to the Allies. Just like he promised Britain and France he was done with expansion after taking the Sudetenland - only to go back on his word and occupy the remainder of Czechoslovakia. And while he was telling Britain and France that he wanted peace in October 1939, he was telling his generals to move the army from Poland back to the west for an invasion of France the following month.

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Of course, German troops would’ve been pulled back if any peace deals were reached.

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Funny...because when Britain told Hitler that for any peace negotiations to begin, Hitler would have to withdraw his forces from Poland as a sign of good faith, despite being committed to peace, Hitler scoffed at this idea.

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Hitler only invaded other countries like Belgium or the Netherlands, for example, to secure strategic areas that could’ve been used as staging areas for attacks on Germany. Countries like Denmark or Norway, to secure supply lines for vital resources, such as iron ore.

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Correct

Hitler only invaded countries to gain control and to take their resources.

The guy was really a Hippie.

The representatives of the Entente at Versailles

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Hitler essentially asked Britain to accept his dominance of central and western Europe while allowing him a free hand to invade eastern Europe. Why should the British, in good faith and conscience, have accepted those terms?

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That's a better outcome for the UK, the war bankrupts them, and sends them into a terminal decline.

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Turning them into the conquered nation of soyboys they are today.

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I assume their ruling class was also replaced, or at least sidelined, like ours was


I'm sure other people have made the point, but compare prewar architecture to post war architecture, it's as if they were built by completely different civilisations.