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Originally Posted by Hartlepool
Because if that war had not taken place,the Germans and Italians would have possibly had their European Union sixty years ago,instead of still being thwarted by some of us today in 2008.
The apeasement option was also available at that time before the war started,it was better known in those days as the surrender option though.
I'de be interested to know which option you would have chosen Imperium,both then ,and now,tell us all,which one?
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The Chamberlain government in 1937 eventually decided to pursue a more active policy of appeasement to push Germany eastwards, with the aim of encouraging and allowing Germany to expand towards the east until Germany and the Soviet Union shared a common frontier.
The British government had calculated that this situation of Germany sharing a closer border with the Soviet Union would increase the probability of Hitler launching an attack against the Soviet Union.
This line of thinking proved accurate when Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.
By setting the Germans against the Bolsheviks, the British government hoped to kill two birds with one stone, expecting that the two enemies would exhaust each another in a German-Soviet war.
This plan to push Germany eastwards broke down when Hitler insisted on a war against Poland in 1939 and under the pressure of British public opinion, Chamberlain was forced to declare war against Germany.
If Chamberlain had let Hitler off just one more time the British plan would have been complete.