[Homer_J_Simpson]

The causes for the rise of a maniac like Hitler were varied but one of the chief causes was the way in which World War I was concluded.

That could have been overcome if France had the national will to oust Hitler when he remilitarized (barely) the Rhineland in 1936 or if France and Great Britain had taken action instead of exhausting all the diplomatic avenues when Hitler moved on Austria and Czechoslovakia. France could even have moved into western Germany after the invasion of Poland and beaten Hitler from the rear. What would have happened then? Who knows. Maybe the festering would have continued in Germany until Stalin made a preemptive strike to the west, launching a second world war.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Double post not my fault! This site is slooooow today.