the Allies missed several opportunities to stop Hitler
Posted on 09/01/2009 10:50:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
World War II began 70 years ago when Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. It would last six years and claim millions of lives. But the Allies missed several opportunities to stop Hitler in the run-up to the war.
It is Aug. 25, 1939, and Adolf Hitler's official apartment in Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery is decorated with the usual floral arrangements, including magnificent bouquets at the entrance to the garden room. But on this Friday Hitler, normally an admirer of summer blossoms, has no interest in flowers.
The dictator, wearing a brown jacket and black trousers, seems worn out. His shoulders slump forward and his deep-set eyes wander restlessly around the room. The Nazi leader is nervous.
At the German-Polish border, about 150 kilometers (94 miles) east of Berlin, 54 German divisions, or about 1.5 million soldiers, are about to take up their positions, and 3,600 armored vehicles and more than 1,500 airplanes are ready to embark on the operation known as "Case White" -- the invasion of Poland on the following day. All the German forces need to move forward is an order from the Führer.
But is this the right time for Hitler to attack? How will Paris and London, Warsaw's allies, react? And how will Hitler's confederate, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, position himself? Italy is considered an important major power, capable of tying up British naval forces in the Mediterranean. But will Il Duce, who was only given a vague forewarning of Germany's imminent invasion of Poland the day before, play along?
'An Artist by Nature'
There is so much activity in Hitler's quarters that it has come to resemble a command post.
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Not as many as the Germans missed.
Because those darn bleeding-heart anti-revisionists in the future won't let a hit team travel back in time and kill him.
the nearsighted dictator
The subject is endlessly fascinating.
He was.
the Allies missed several opportunities to stop Hitler
Hitler was all for Hope and Change.
In part because he had an ally in Stalin and there were several million people in Germany willing to follow him.
Why hasn’t Obama been stopped look at his Czars in the white house..Why have they been allowed to stay look at his friends all commies and terrorist why hasn’t he been stopped..In years to come the same question will be ask of the American people..Why wasn’t Obama stopped!!It will be aks if we last that long..
You know God is going to take so much and then watch out..
“Why Wasn’t Hitler Stopped?”
He was, just not by Europeans.
BTTT
This is one of the big reasons why I support the effort in Iraq.
“Why Wasn’t Hitler Stopped?”
Because he was such a great community organizer.
“In all the millions of words I’ve read about Hitler I never knew that
the nearsighted dictator
The subject is endlessly fascinating.”
You need to watch the Hitler Channel(AKA The History Channel)more. Over the last 3 years they have gone a little nuts on the whole Hitler/Nazi programming.
He was stopped decisively in Munich in 1938.
"Our enemies are little worms, I saw them in Munich."
If Hitler had studied Napoleon as carefully as he had studied Frederick the Great, he wouldn’t have repeated Napoleon’s greatest mistake of invading Russia and probably would have ended up dominating much of Europe for decades.
Read the first volume of Churchill's history of WWII. It reads like a modern history of how the West has dealt with Islamo-fascism. Pacifism, appeasement, agreeing their cause was just, faith in multilateral organizations . . . .
Hitler based his case initially on irredentism, that bits of German speaking territories should be united with Germany. Many in the West agreed with him. Their descendants support Arab irredentism. Both were in substance supporting fascism.
German diplomats award Henry Ford, center, with their nation's highest decoration for foreigners, the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, in July 1938.
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