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1 posted on 10/07/2008 6:03:13 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Gehrig, Dimag, and Dickey. Not at a bad middle of the lineup.


2 posted on 10/07/2008 6:05:05 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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Today's thread is named in honor of Petronski - member since October 7, 1998. That's ten years of rooting out Error here at Free Republic. Congratulations, Petronski!

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3 posted on 10/07/2008 6:09:47 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (How do I change my tagline?)
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Hitler had better be careful. If he keeps breaking promises the other European leaders are going to stop trusting him.

Slovakia, of course, could be cut off by political means, which might make the use of German troops unnecessary. For this purpose the German Foreign Office was put to work. All through the first days of October, Ribbentrop and his aides urged the Hungarians to press for their share of the spoils in Slovakia. But when Hungary, which hardly needed German prodding to whet its greedy appetite, spoke of taking Slovakia outright, the Wilhelmstrasse put its foot down. It had other plans for the future of this land. The Prague government had already, immediately after Munich, granted Slovakia a far-reaching autonomy. The German Foreign Office advised "tolerating" this solution for the moment. But for the future the German thinking was summed up by Dr. Ernst Woermann, director of the Political Department of the Foreign Office, in a memorandum of October 7. "An independent Slovakia," he wrote, "would be weak constitutionally and would therefore best further the German need for penetration and settlement in the East."

Here is a new turning point for the Third Reich. For the first time Hitler is on the verge of setting out to conquer non-Germanic lands. Over the last six weeks he had been assuring Chamberlain, in private and in public, that the Sudetenland was his last territorial demand in Europe. And though the British Prime Minister was gullible almost beyond comprehension in accepting Hitler's word, there was some ground for his believing that the German dictator would halt when he had digested the Germans who previously had dwelt outside the Reich's frontier and were now within it. Had not the Fuehrer repeatedly said that he wanted no Czechs in the Third Reich? Had he not in Mein Kampf and in countless public speeches reiterated the Nazi theory that a Germany, to be strong, must be racially pure and therefore must not take in foreign, and especially Slav, peoples? He had. But also—and perhaps this was forgotten in London—he had preached in many a turgid page in Mein Kampf that Germany’s future lay in conquering Lebensraum in the East. For more than a millennium this space had been occupied by the Slavs.

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp. 429-430

4 posted on 10/07/2008 6:15:25 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (How do I change my tagline?)
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