I am astonished that such Neo-Nazi distortions of History have not already been addressed so I will rectify that omission now.
Hitler was actually largely uninterested in the day to day business of politics . His two motivations for entering the political arena were to make Germany a "Great Power" once more , meaning a major military power, with a greatly expanded empire ,and his rabid Anti-Semitism .
The former meant that he had always planned for aggressive war to regain the territories lost after World War One and to acquire vast tracts of Eastern Europe as "Living-Space" for German colonists, having, of course, enslaved or exterminated the Slavic and Jewish etc populations of the region. Given this viewpoint, he was committed to war from the very start of his career and so to live in peace with Germany's neighbours would have been, to him, quite impossible, indeed inconceivable .He was even prepared to forge a temporary alliance with his fellow despot Stalin, in order to avoid fighting a dangerous enemy until he was ready to do so . Peace was only ever temporary with Hitler. He could never be trusted to adhere to any treaty he agreed to. That is why he was the most dangerous leader who ever lived. Danzig is an excellent example of my point. That situation could easily have been addressed by diplomacy , but Hitler had not the slightest interest in doing so.
The above poster is utterly wrong in thinking that Britain and France were the belligerents. Hitler was determined to attack France and retake the region of Alsace-Lorraine, which had been ceded to the latter ,at the earliest possible opportunity . Had he done so , and France had been defeated, Britain would have been left alone and vulnerable as Germany dominated Continental Europe. Both Britain and France were so desperate to avoid war that they continued to appease Hitler until Nazi Germany was almost too powerful to be defeated. As for ignoring Stalin , it would have been quite impossible for the Western European powers to have fought both Germany and the Soviet Union. I suggest that you look at a map of Europe , even in logistical terms, how could they have prevented Poland's two powerful neighbours from carving the country up between them ?
Gordon P. Clarkson
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