[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

From “News of the Week in Review.”

[Larry Lucido]

I’m sure he’s gone as far as he wants an presents no further threat. Maybe we can start a dialogue with some moderate nazis.

[The Sons of Liberty]

WHAT IS HITLER 0bama UP TO? A FRANTIC EUROPE ASKS

[dfwgator]

All Hitler wants is Peace....Peace....Peace....

A little piece of Poland,
A little piece of France,
A little piece of Austria
And Hungary, perchance!
A little slice of Turkey
And all that that entails,
And then a bit of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales!

[CougarGA7]

The author sure saw Memmel comming. That will be his last conquest before war.

[CheneyChick]

George Santayana (1863-1952):

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Poles had gained Teschen by their shameful attitude towards the liquidation of the Czechoslovak State. They were soon to pay their own forfeits. On March 21, when Ribbentrop saw M. Lipski, the Polish Ambassador in Berlin, he adopted a sharper tone than in previous discussions. The occupation of Bohemia and the creation of satellite Slovakia brought the German Army to the southern frontiers of Poland. Lipski told Ribbentrop that the Polish man-in-the-street could not understand why the Reich had assumed the protection of Slovakia, that protection being directed against Poland. He also inquired about the recent conversations between Ribbentrop and the Lithuanian Foreign Minister. Did they affect Memel? He received his answer two days later (March 23). German troops occupied Memel.

Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

[beebuster2000]

another great post. fan of yours

[Billthedrill]

A BTT. Six months later they got their answer.

[BroJoeK]

Interesting to note, the writer of this piece imagines British businessmen wanting Germany to dominate central Europe, in order to bring them political stability and the possibility of prosperity.

Well, I doubt if this is really true, since very few Brits would have economic interests in Central Europe which could outweigh their sense of the strategic dangers from German military conquests.

But, what's obvious is that, even in early 1939, no one as yet appreciated the full horrors soon to be unleashed.