[hocndoc]

Besides that fact that Buchanan argues that if Hitler had been given everything he demanded — along with all the excuses about why Germany deserved Danzig and the Sudentenland — without a fight, Auschwitz wouldn’t have happened?

The man should know that Dachau opened in 1933. http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/TIMELINE/camps.htm Perhaps this is why the Poles and Czechs were not enthusiastic about German rule!!!

Per Buchanan: “”The cost of the war that came of a refusal to negotiate Danzig was millions of Polish dead, the Katyn massacre, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz, the annihilation of the Home Army in the Warsaw uprising of 1944, and 50 years of Nazi and Stalinist occupation, barbarism and terror.””

Why, with reasoning like this, we could forget KristalNacht, euthanasia of “life unworthy of life” and all those other useless mouths!

[Clemenza]

Pat is ignorant of Polish interwar geopolitics, to say nothing of Hitler and '"Nieu Ostpolitik." He makes the rather BIZARRE assumption that Hitler was a realist along the lines of Metternich, when Adolf himself claimed Napoleon (an idealist) as a major influence. It also assumes that Ribbentrop was anything but a tool of der fuhrer.

For his next article, Pat will inform us how the Brits should have accepted Rudolf Hess's offer of surrender.