If it had been ‘anybody but Hitler’, and the Anglos had acted more reasonably to the Danzig Crisis, history would have said that the Germans were merely seeking to rectify the immense damage done by the Treaty of Versailles.
If it had been ‘anybody but Hitler’, and the Anglos had acted more reasonably to the Danzig Crisis
They tried that in Munich. six months later the Nazis rolled into the rest of Czechoslovakia. They weren’t just trying to bring Germans back into the Reich anymore.
As Chamberlain said, from that point on, Hitler simply could not be trusted to keep his word.