And the Democrats offered to fund the government only if they are allowed to implement Obamacare...
Maybe we should have taken them up on it. Let Enemy 1 fight Enemy 2 while we sit and watch.
But then, not enough people would have died to suit FDR.
Sounds like something out of a Harry Turtledove novel.
Had this been accepted, a larger number of Soviet Jews might have fallen into German hands, so the death toll from the Holocaust might well have been even larger than it was.
Interesting. Let Hitler and Stalin kick each others butts.
Two genocidal nations fighting each other in a war of attrition. We should have really supported that action.
Monday morning quarterbacking WWII. In 1941 it was the Soviet Union that had been genocidal, not Germany. And the genocide continued after Germany was defeated in 1945, while the West was whistling Dixie past the graveyards of millions murdered by Communists. 100+ million to day. Hitler was a piker, despite what we are told daily and daily.
I always believe Hess went to England on Hitler’s orders.
Hess didn’t take a dump unless the Fuhrer told him to.
Right, that’s rich! Peace in our time. Only needed lebensraum in the Sudetenland.
Keep in mind that our government was overrun with actual commie agents at the time, and they always whispered in FDR’s ear about the need to save the Soviets.
This story looks fishy to me. I was a Navy brat in those days and my family moved to Norfolk in the Spring of 1941, shortly after my father shipped out for service in the Atlantic fleet ... and convoys were leaving Norfolk frequently, carrying materials like coal to places like Russia. After we went to war, German subs were waiting to sink ships just outside Cheseapeake Bay, where the convoys came together. I remember seeing nighttime flashs from ship explosions off Virginia Beach, and then seeing beaches covered with oil — inside the bay.
Hess was a peculiar character , some what dim witted and obsessed with astrology with a wide streak of melancholy . Hitler suffered him only because Hess had been in prison at Landsberg in the same cell with him. It was Hess whom Hitler dictated “Mein Kampf’’to but as time went on after coming to power Hitler grew increasingly annoyed by Hess and his peculiarities.
It never made much sense for Hess to have “gone rogue” and done this. He was way too fanatical to do anything like that.
Makes a lot more sense if Hitler just wanted to deny any involvement if the offer was shot down.
Hitler and Stalin in a battle to the death?
I would have taken that deal in a second.
In hind sight, we should have taken them up on that offer.
It’s no coincidence that the two major axis powers were on each end of the USSR.
I’m waiting for Pat Buchanan to weigh in on the matter.
France would have to lose at least Alsace and Lorraine, no way Hitler was giving that back.
What about the West's treaties with Poland which they basically ignored anyway when Poland was invaded? What about all of the Jews from Germany to Moscow and beyond?