BigGameBaylorBear said:
Mothra said:
The_barBEARian said:
Mothra said:
The_barBEARian said:
I meant no disrespect towards your grandfather.
As you pointed out, he was just a patriotic kid that was manipulated and thrown to the wolves. He thought he was doing the right thing.
The fault is entirely with the politicians of the day - Roosevelt and Churchill.
Indeed, he was a patriotic kid that did the right thing - fight against the evil and tyranny that was Hitler and the Nazis. He was on the right side of history.
If only those assassination attempts on one of the most evil men in the history of humanity had been successful...
It's interesting that you blame the current make up of Great Britain on Churchill. I suppose you believe if the Nazis had won then the ethnic cleansing that would've resulted would've prevented the current demographic.
In what ways do you feel the world would've been better if Hitler had conquered all of Europe? I mean, I guess it's a given that most of the Jewish people would've been wiped out in a genocide. You would of course view that is a good thing. What other positive aspects do you see coming from the Nazis winning?
Hitler would have never won all of Europe. And even if he conquered mainland, he wouldn't hold it very long. Similar to Napoleon.
His early idea was to unite ethnic Germans under one nation, Lebensraum, which would involve defeating the Soviets and conquering much of Eastern Europe.
As for the Jews, the Nazis originally planned to deport them. I doubt the Holocaust would have happened if the war never escalated the way it did.
I agree Hitler would not have won all of Europe. That said, he was positioned to make Germany a hegemon for the foreseeable future.
The 'ethnic Germans' schtick was political. While some in high positions were very much into Eugenics, Hitler himself just wanted power.
As for the Jews, everything I have read from official documents and statements made by people who knew indicates there was
always a murderous hatred of them. Hitler wanted to expel as many as possible, but every Jew, down to infants, was in deadly peril as long as they were in German control or the Reich continued.
The war was
always going to escalate. Between Geography, Stalin, the Economy of the time or the social climate, only someone completely oblivious or deliberately ignorant could maintain the fiction that the war could be avoided.
Hitler and Stalin were vicious cancers on Mankind. We are all better with such monsters gone.
That which does not kill me, will try again and get nastier