[nickcarraway]

It had nothing to do with bringing the U.K. into the war. (And by the way, no shots were fired with the British for a long time, and even then the Germans started it.)

Hitler was obsessed with Russia. There is no way he was starting a war on Germany's Western front without the Russian flank protected.

[Boogieman]

“It had nothing to do with bringing the U.K. into the war.”

Nonsense. The British declared war on Germany within 2 days of them invading Poland, because they were allies. It wasn’t some “secret alliance”, everyone, including the Germans, knew what would happen.