[Peter Libra]

I have perused your comments and do agree. I will repeat what you will already know, but it might escape others. The ultimatum to Herr Hitler was delivered by Neville Chamberlain. This was to withdraw his troops from Poland. Hitler never believed that Chamberlain would declare war.

I remember.

I will never know in my lifetime just how close an agreement could have been fashioned. True, Hitler was a liar and had lied twice. Pretty hard to judge whether the whole thing could have been avoided.

That is another story.

[gr8eman]

My case study was "Why did Hess fly to Scotland to try to broker a deal?" Germany and England were in an all out war yet the Nazis were still trying to cut a deal. The reason is that Hitler wasn;t so clueless to realize that he couldn't win a two front war, as six weeks after Hess flew to Scotland, Operation Barbarossa was set.

Hitler did have reasonable issues as to the Sudeten Germans and Danzig, but instead of engaging in diplomacy, even at knifepoint, he went postal.

Chamberlain was not a coward or a pu$$y. He followed the political line that was shared by the King, Lord Fairfax, and the upper classes of which Lord Hamilton, the target of Hess' mission, were toeing.

I admit that I bought into this perversion of history and it is purely ignorant. The only more egregious perversions are by the Churchill haters, who to this day rewrite history to slander him for whatever reason!