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What about the fact that Winston Churchill, before he became Prime Minister, warned that Hitler needed to be dealt with immediately, and harshly? Tens of millions of lives would have been saved if the world had responded to Hitler “disproportionately” in 1938. To those who believe otherwise, “Here’s your sign.”

Heck, they didn't even need to respond "harshly". They could have simply marched into the Rhineland and Hitler's unprepared and sparcly armed troops would've had to retreat. Hitler could possibly have been disgraced and neutralized without a single shot being fired. We have the same choice today. I doubt we could do it without ANY violence at all, but we could probably do it with minimal casualties on both sides.

Tens of millions of lives would have been saved if the world had responded to Hitler “disproportionately” in 1938.
According to F.K. Winterbotham in The Nazi Connection, the time to take Hitler out was before 1936. By 1938 the British were still a year away from having enough trained pilots and Spitfires (the British PM was wise enough to know air power would be the key to staving off a Nazi invasion of his country). The Me109s were far superior to the Hurricanes and Bison fighters the British had at the time. A war in 1938 would have meant the defeat of both Britain and France. Chamberlain's "peace in our time" was nothing more than buying time for Britain. He was also well aware the French miliary and gov. was shot thru with Nazi sympathizers and that they would likely not withstand a German assault.