I used to have a lot of respect for Pat Buchanan. Then he wrote “Churchill, Hitler, and The Unnecessary War”. In that book Buchanan argued that Churchill - and not Hitler - was responsible for WW II.
If only Churchill had been more accommodating. If only Churchill had been more understanding of Germany’s legitimate concerns. If only Churchill had given Poland to Germany. Then there would have been no WW II. And there would have been no Holocaust.
Nope, I’m not buying any of that. In fact, to hell with that.
Holy cow, that’s crazy talk, but I believe you.
Churchill was what the world needed, at that time.
Churchill was imo the second greatest man of the 20th century.
I also believe Churchill was right to refuse any negotiations with Hitler. However Buchanan was not totally wrong either.
Hitler would have seized the old Prussia and any other part of Poland which was German Speaking. He also would have taken huge areas of the Soviet Union, mainly the best farmland and oil and mineral production.
Now he might have wanted influence in other countries but did not want to permanently occupy them. He wanted the Rhineland, Alsace and Loraine and part of Czechoslovakia.
He would have left the British Isles alone as well as most of Western Europe.
Then he want to build his 1000 year Reich. Huge buildings, magnificent sports arenas, Train stations, autobahns etc.
It would have cost a lot of people their freedom or forced them to move but it might still have been preferable to100 million dead.
> “If only Churchill had been more accommodating. If only Churchill had been more understanding of Germany’s legitimate concerns. .....
Nope, I’m not buying any of that. In fact, to hell with that.”
I agree with you entirely. When he wrote that, I stopped paying attention to anything Pat said.