That was fascinating. I’ve just learned some disheartening things about the war. Hitler went to war for defensive reasons. Poland was treating the residents of East Prussia and the strip separating it from the rest of Germany very badly - conducting pogroms against ethic Germans... 58,000 were slaughtered. Same in Sudetenland. Hitler wanted to destroy Poland because it was an artificial creation of the Versailles treaty and it was goading Germany.
Also, Germany never attacked London until AFTER the British bombed Berlin. He took the north countries to block the Russians. He took France because they had declared war on him after Poland. Also to put an end to Versailles. To save the German people from servitude to the French and the British to some extent.
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Well ... not exactly. He wanted to take over a lot of land to the east of Germany, including at least part of the USSR.
This was the core Nazi principle, Lebensraum .
On the other hand, to your point, it is arguable that Hitler saved Germany from Bolshevism, from "voluntarily" joining the USSR in the 1920s.
I don’t agree with your take on this.
Poland existed as a sovereign nation for many centuries before the Verseilles treaty, often much larger than in modern times. I will look into the 58,000 slaughtered Germans because I find that difficult to believe.
The irony of those statements, followed by your tag line, is notable.