WilliamHouston, if you are going to claim that Danzig is the lynchpin of all history, you are setting yourself up for a higher level of proof than you have offered, Please show a shred of proof that Danzig was more important to the whole world than everything else. In your theory, it is the pivot to all history. A lot of other things were going on between 1918 and 1939. I guess the Depression, Nazi ideology, advancing technology, all geopolitics not related to Danzig, etc. pale in comparison to Danzig. And Danzig was so important that Nazi Germany was justified in taking ANY action in getting it back. To anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of history, you and Mr. Buchanan’s theory is preposterous.
“WilliamHouston, if you are going to claim that Danzig is the lynchpin of all history, you are setting yourself up for a higher level of proof than you have offered, Please show a shred of proof that Danzig was more important to the whole world than everything else.”
(1) Danzig was THE CAUSE of the German invasion of Poland.
(2) The British war guarantee was THE CAUSE of Poland’s refusal to cede its claim to Danzig ... a city that was 95 percent German.
(3) The German invasion of Poland, which violated Chamberlain’s war guarantee, was THE CAUSE of Britain declaring war on Germany.
(4) The British war guarantee was THE CAUSE of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
(5) The war between Britain and Germany was THE CAUSE of Italy getting into the war.
(6) The war between Britain and Germany was THE CAUSE of American intervention.
“In your theory, it is the pivot to all history. A lot of other things were going on between 1918 and 1939.”
This was all discussed in the book - not the one I reviewed, but the previous one.
“I guess the Depression, Nazi ideology, advancing technology, all geopolitics not related to Danzig, etc.”
The entire political spectrum in Germany - liberals, moderates, conservatives, Nazis, and communists - supported the annexation of Danzig because it was a German city that had been stripped away from Germany by a stupid punitive treaty.
Hitler’s popularity was due to the Versailles Treaty. That’s how we rose to power. By identifying himself with that consensus within Germany.
Quite obviously, the world would have been infinitely better off if the foolish decision hadn’t been made to create the “Free City of Danzig.”
“pale in comparison to Danzig. And Danzig was so important that Nazi Germany was justified in taking ANY action in getting it back.”
Germany was justified in taking back Danzig. It was a German city that had been severed from Germany by the punitive Versailles Treaty. Even America acknowledged that Danzig was a legitimate grievance by rejecting the Versailles Treaty.
“To anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of history, you and Mr. Buchanan’s theory is preposterous.”
I’m still waiting to see your knowledge of history. Hitherto, you haven’t responded to my arguments, but instead have attacked straw men that you have created like the idea that Buchanan wanted Hitler to “kidnap” the Pope.