Our current GOP leadership seems to come to mind when reading this story.
Thank God we fought Hitler when we were still a nation of men. Can you imagine Hitler vs. Obama? Heil no.
Ping for possible discussion in your WW2 threads.
Interesting discussion.
By 1938 the period of being able to stop Hitler without serious warfare was past. (The Rhineland crisis was a whole other story.) While the French seriously outweighed the Germans in manpower and materiel, particularly in alliance with the Czechs, the problem was that the French had absolutely no will to attack. Without the will, the other factors were utterly meaningless.
If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.
FTM, the Allies had significantly more men, planes and tanks than the Germans during the Battle of France. Did them a whole lot of good.
While the British expanded their forces from 1938 to 1940, so did the Germans. The absolute level of British military power was irrelevant, only its power relative to the enemy’s. A good chunk of the German weaponry was taken from the Czechs.
The claims that the Wehrmacht would have overthrown Hitler had war started over Czechoslovakia are interesting, but will remain forever speculative. They might have done so, they might have tried and failed, or they might have chickened out at the last moment. Many German officers plotted, with varying degrees of sincerity, at different times during the Nazis’ reign. Very few followed through.