-Caveat Lector-
The crucial point at which Western intervention against Hitler would have
aborted all of the Nazi schemes was in 1934, when Hitler rearmed the
Rhineland. Virtually the entire Reichswehr--not yet the Wehrmacht--was
committed to the sham "show of force" by Berlin. *Literally* the entire
Luftwaffe was deployed, with planes circling again and again to give the
impression of unstoppable aerial armadas--when in reality Germany had no
more than a squadron of fighter aircraft. Had the French moved against the
Germans at this point, Britain would have had no option but to join them.
The French, however, were governed by a United Front (Socialist/Communist)
government, nearly pacifist in inclination, which took one look at the
German "armies" and ordered all French forces withdrawn from the Rhineland.
Even the appearance of an armored brigade would have forced Hitler to pull
his troops back immediately; but, as so often with the Third Reich, the
"civilized" powers of the West took the Germans at face value, and assumed
that because Hitler *behaved* as if he had overwhelming military strength,
he actually *did* have overwhelming military strength--at a time when the
German General Staff was forecasting that they would not be adequately
rearmed until 1942 at the earliest.
> -----Original Message-----
<snip>
> My argument that it was a mistake for Britain to give a "war guarantee" to
> Poland in the spring of 1939 is based on history. Not only did the
> guarantee fail to save Poland, it led to total disaster for Poland and to
> a Nazi invasion and occupation of Western Europe.
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