Granted that Czechoslovakia was not a model democracy, that the Versailles conference created a mess. But the point is Hitler. He knew what he wanted.
As to war, it turned like many wars, on certain events, such as the Allies finding out the original German plan for war. Like the boldness of the new plan which sent armor into the Ardennes.
He doesn't have to take OUR word for what Hitler was thinking. He can read the guy's own words.
Historically Pat's analysis of both WW 1 what caused WW 2 is trite simplistic nonsense.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/hitler-obersalzberg.html
Guess Pat figures Hitler did not mean any of this huh?
Colonel-General von Brauchitsch has promised me to bring the war against Poland to a close within a few weeks. Had he reported to me that he needs two years or even only one year, I should not have given the command to march and should have allied myself temporarily with England instead of Russia for we cannot conduct a long war. To be sure a new situation has arisen. I experienced those poor worms Daladier and Chamberlain in Munich. They will be too cowardly to attack. They won't go beyond a blockade. Against that we have our autarchy and the Russian raw materials.
Poland will be depopulated and settled with Germans. My pact with the Poles was merely conceived of as a gaining of time. As for the rest, gentlemen, the fate of Russia will be exactly the same as 1 am now going through with in the case of Poland. After Stalin's death-he is a very sick man-we will break the Soviet Union. Then there will begin the dawn of the German rule of the earth.
The little States cannot scare me. After Kemal’s [i.e. Ataturk] death Turkey is governed by cretins and half idiots. Carol of Roumania is through and through the corrupt slave of his sexual instincts. The King of Belgium and the Nordic kings are soft jumping jacks who are dependent upon the good digestions of their over-eating and tired peoples.