Pat is impossible to defend when he says things like this. He still thinks Hitler would have been no problem to the US if he had taken Russia. Never the mind their planes would have been in striking distance of North American cities.
Unbelieveable revisionist history, to say that the Polish refusal to negotiate with Hitler caused World War 2 and the loss of millions of lives and destruction of much of Europe.
History shows us that Hitler had made many other demands and moves previous to that. Among those were:
militarization of the Rhineland
occupation of Austria
occupation of the Sudetenland(sp) in Czechoslovakia(sp)
occupation of the remainder of Czechoslovakia
By the time Hitler wanted Danzig, it appeared that there was no end to his demands, and that a line had to be drawn somewhere. His invasion of Poland confirmed that he would simply use force if anyone tried to stop him.
Granted, at the time, some thought negotiations with Hitler could avoid war. Neville Chamberlain thought so. But in the hindsight of the history of World War 2, it seems laughable for someone to say, if only Poland had done this or that, the war and bloodshed and disaster would have been averted. In dealing with a madman such as Hitler, it’s doubtful that the war could have been avoided. If Poland had indeed given up Danzig, the war would simply have started over another territory.