2 minutes agoSecond World War That Could Not Happen
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(8 years ago)Hitler would later claim that if he had known about the nature of Russian tanks production, and especially the T-34 tank, against which German antitank standard weapons were not effective, would never have invaded the Soviet Union. Maybe. But it took a war theater in the East that killed the most [...]
Why the Western world, which had knowledge of classical lectures and geography of war, and was still suffering from the trauma of the first war, chose to self-destruct in 1939, is a story not so many accidents, miscalculations and excessive reactions, as many well - thought - out decisions to ignore, soften, or cooperate with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, from countries with resources and knowledge, but not the will, to act differently.
Throughout history, conflict has erupted between enemies, when the appearance of prevention of material and spiritual opportunity to use successfully, the greatest military power against an aggressive enemy has disappeared. From Carthage to Confederata, the weaker countries of war could be convinced of the impossible because their fantasies were previously controlled by cold reality. A greater display of power, and the willingness to use it may have stopped many conflicts before they started. Put otherwise, prevention according to the famous formation of 17th century British statesman George Sevile, the Market of Halifax, meant that “men cannot depend on stealing horses, but horses cannot be stolen”
But once the thieves did not depend, and more horses were stolen, little was confused about who is strong and who is weak, and the proper recalculation broke the rhetoric and the attitude by knowledge of real force was restored at the terrible cost of world war. Mein Kampf of Adolf Hitler “After that battle Hitler was no longer widely read, and it was rarely heard by the Germans as the ambition of the Third Reich faded, and Nazi Germany was exposed as far weaker than its enemies and led by an incompetent strategist.
Inexplicably, the Soviets had been unable to communicate that fact and thus lost their restraint. Hitler would later claim that if he had known about the nature of Russian tanks production, and especially the T-34 tank, against which German antitank standard weapons were not effective, would never have invaded the Soviet Union. Maybe. But it took a war theater in the East that killed over 30 million people to discover the true power of the Soviets. Likewise, their leaders and followers are forced to make necessary adjustments, although at times at a terrible price of prewar impressions. In the case of the fear of Western democracies in 1938-1939, General Walter Warlimont explained Hitler's confidence in the powers that could easily have stopped Germany: “1) he felt that Allied interests in the Far East were far more important than their interests in Europe, and (2) they did not seem to be armed as needed” What a terrible cost it took to prove Hitler wrong!
Only after the catastrophic battles of Leipzig (1813) and Waterloo (1815), Napoleon acknowledged that his armies had never been a problem for the united armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, Sweden, and England. If all these states had joined a steadfast coalition a decade earlier, Napoleon could have stopped and not started a war. Without much overblown, Churchill said of Hitler's military agenda that at least “until 1934, the German rearming could have been prevented without losing a single life. It's not like the time was missing”.
Germany in 1939 was no stronger than the English and French armies together, or at least not strong enough to defeat and conquer both. The most recent German-Italian axis was far less impressive than the alliance that would appear very soon between Great Britain, America and Russia. After all, at the end of the war in 1945, the U.S. would have GDP as much as that of all Allied and Bosch powers combined. To sum up, 60 million dead, 20th - century totalitarian ideologies of Adolf Hitler, the appearance of V-2 missiles, the launch of two atom bombs, the Holocaust, the napalm, the suicides, and the killing of millions in Russia and China redefined World War II, as no other conflict in the past.
Why the Western world, which had knowledge of classical lectures and geography of war, and was still suffering from the trauma of the first war, chose to self-destruct in 1939, is a story not so many accidents, miscalculations and excessive reactions, as many well - thought - out decisions to ignore, soften, or cooperate with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, from countries with resources and knowledge, but not the will, to act differently. / National Review World.al
