Hitler was admired all over the world when he first came to power, in the US they called him Der Hitler and saw him as a role model for economic recovery. Germans children would use their parent's money to build play houses as stacks of it were worthless before Hitler. I remember seeing a picture of a woman and her children pulling 2 wagons full of money to buy a loaf of bread and a pint of milk. Hitler fixed the country with works program like the Autobahn.
History repeats. And remember, everything Hitler did was legal.
Well, as far as England was concerned Hitler had legitimate grievances. France didn’t think so, but it was living in its own world. And historians have said that World War 2 was simply a continuation of World War 1, which it really was. The powers that signed the agreements at the end of World War 1 simply created the conditions for World War 2. So, Hitler was inevitable, because of what they created.
But, if England and France had not declared war against Germany after Poland, then it’s apparent Hitler would have gone east and not west. I don’t think he intended to go west at all. His real aims were east, always east.
Apart from the murder of the Jews (which is serious enough all by itself), if Hitler had been allowed to go east and set up his “expansion” that way, the Western powers may have avoided going to war with him, and the Communists could have been taken care of in an easy fashion, instead of us having the Cold War and the “M.A.D. doctrine” (Mutually Assured Destruction) for decades. However, the Jews were a real part of the equation and one couldn’t overlook that.
But, the West could have also let the Jews emigrate and bring them into their own countries plus into “mandate” area dedicated for the Jews as a homeland (i.e., Israel). But, England prevented them from going there.
However, I don’t know how much longer after taking care of all Hitler’s affairs in the east, it would have been that he would be looking to the west. And if left in an unchecked state, Hilter (and Germany) would have finished the development of the atomic bomb and jet aircraft soon.
The fact of the matter is that Germany had legitimate grievances which allowed someone like Hitler to take over. And he would have improved the state of affairs for Germans, even with him being a dictator. However, a lot of other people would be under his “boot”...
In the present state of affairs, it’s a completely different matter with Obama. We don’t have the situation where our country was oppressed by outside forces which subjugated us and then led us to elect some leader who promised to throw off these chains of outside oppression on us.
In this case, with the economy, especially, we’re oppressed by ignoring the “false economy” that we set up for decades, and it simply collapsed on us. And we’re in the very unfortunate scenario of having a Democrat sort out the problems from many decades of mismanagement of our economy, instead of a Republican and conservative. It’s a different sort of picture here, than of what happened in Germany...