[the scotsman]

Yes, twas us nasty Brits.

After we had occupied the Rhineland, annexed Austria, subjugated the Czechs, and raped Poland. Then we turned west and raped Western Europe.

Hell, British murder squads called the Einsatzgruppen (funny name for a British unit, but hey...) murdered every Polish and Czech Jew, gypsy and subhuman they could get their hands on.

Oh, those nasty British.

[dfwgator]

Yes, twas us nasty Brits.

"We're gonna take you back, to the year 1939 when Charlie Chaplin and his nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world....But then an even greater force emerged, the "un" ...and the un un-nazied the world - forever."

[IbJensen]

Well, I wouldn’t go that far. Britain’s two main contributing factors were:

1. Going along with the froggies in slapping Germany with an onorous reparations tab following the WWI armistice which completely devestated the nation and its people. There was no sense to this dastardly deed as the origins of the conflict were so damned convoluted as to escape reason.

2. Listening the United States. For decades Britain had a treaty with Japan that benefitted both sides and both enjoyed an amicable relationship. The US goaded Britain into arbitraily cancelling that treaty which miffed the Japanese big time. The Japanese knew that pressure was exerted by the US and it was from this point on that they knew they had two key enemies (besides the USSR, that is.).
Japan’s entry into WWII alongside Nazi German was a direct result of this treaty cancellation.

[IbJensen]

Oh, and Scotty, one more thing.

The action by the UK to sign a one-sided pact with Poland (which at that time had a contemptable president and foreign office) was indeed a trigger mechanism.

I’m not excusing the Nazis here who played Britain like a harp, as well as many other nations, but the starving, deprived Germans were ready to grasp at straws and, due to conivving, the Nazis arrived to ‘save the day.’ (Temporarily for the populace.)