Message from @cqc
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Because of the cost of the war
He knew he couldn't afford it
suppose the Empire continued to exist though
wouldn't it just collapse some other way?
Eventually it might but he helped speed that up quite a bit
if the Axis had won, I can't imagine the British Empire having the same respect and credibility it did pre-war
Axis wouldn't have "won"
They would've taken parts of Eastern Poland
And likely not even Alsace-Lorraine
France too right?
Casualties would be a few hundred thousand at best
For the war
i imagine some of what used to be the Holy Roman Empire
since that was more or less Germany with some wiggle room
Hitler stated on numerous occasions that he had no intention of expanding in the west
France didn't even want to declare war
They were pressured into doing it by the brits
That's why the phony war existed
wait a minute
They didn't put up much of a fight and the civillian population living under occupation didn't mind it all that much
Yes?
Between 1 september 1939 and when Hitler invaded France
That's called the Phony War
i dunno, i think people would be reasonably pissed with the invasion of Poland and the night of broken glass
tfw you sippin on the last of the mornin drank and the nutmeg hits
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/600/153/2f6.gif
no.
Hitler told Britain that he would pull out of Poland except Danzig if they made peace
He legit didn't believe they would declare war
And the poles resisted the reasonable german demands
All because of the british guarantee
That ultimately didn't mean shit
I mean come on a railway through the Polish Corridor?
And the FREE CITY of Danzig?
so essentially Germany was just doing some patrol work and retrieving some chattel
some heavily and excessively guarded chattel at that
but because these people had essentially gone full "MINE!" over Germany's shit they had a hissy fit and went to war
why do people hate Hitler again
That's unreasonable?
It's really sad
People say Hitler invaded Austria
Hitler invaded Sudetenland
Hitler killed 600000000000000000000 jews slavs and french
But it's all lies