‘But TIK, the reason WHY Hitler started WW2 makes no sense!’

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Why would Hitler go to war with Poland, knowing that Britain would declare war on Germany? For some, including my Patreon, the reason why Hitler started the war don't make any sense. But when you look at the way Hitler viewed the world (his ideology and his economics) and if you understand the way Chamberlain changed his mind after the Munich Agreement, then it all falls into place. This video will help you put the pieces of the puzzle together.
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History isn’t as boring as some people think, and my goal is to get people talking about it. I also want to dispel the myths and distortions that ruin our perception of the past by asking a simple question - “But is this really the case?”. I have a 2:1 Degree in History and a passion for early 20th Century conflicts (mainly WW2). I’m therefore approaching this like I would an academic essay. Lots of sources, quotes, references and so on. Only the truth will do.
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@finnhackapell6560 3 года назад

As a college student studying history, I learned that your quote "But is that really the case?" is pretty much the motif and theme about learning in history. Thanks for inspiring me TIK.

@Eisengeboren 3 года назад

But is that really the case?

@Alte.Kameraden 3 года назад

There is a reason I used to use the quote from Katsumoto from The Last Samurai "I want to know my enemy." As it fits perfectly into history study. It's the main reason I got into studying the German Empire, Nazi Germany, the USSR and the the Japanese Empire. It's also why already by the time I was in highschool I would say things "Regardless of Nazi Germany's crimes, we would of been at war with them anyways. The crimes they committed were fortunate for us after the war." As I knew very well already by then that Nazi crimes were not the reason we went to war with them but for other political and economic reasons. To be honest, I personally think the crimes they committed broke history, as you can argue today, socialist have been fighting tooth/nail to distance themselves from Nazi Germany, and Fascism as a whole, which when combined with the Cold War, poisoned much of the historical narrative for decades.

@MarkVrem 3 года назад

TIK just possibly single-handedly changed public perception on "Quarterly Inflation Reports". They might need to be renamed the "Price Change Reports"

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer 3 года назад

I don't always agree with Tik, that being said I absolutely respect his intellectual honesty and research.

@Arigator2 3 года назад

Yes, but i worry about his grasp of economics when he takes out a loan that is 10% interest per day. That is 3650 APR. :) :) (just kidding, obviously he meant the days to be an analogy for years)

@nunyabeezaxe2030 3 года назад

“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” ― Murray N. Rothbard

@davidsenderodelsanto 3 года назад

Why does it not surprise that people who quote Murray Rothbard as if he ever had any valid insights AKA - AnCaps are regular listeners to this deranged apologist for the most morally degenerate regime in modern world history. At least until one of theirs somehow comes to power, you can be certain that a Fundamentalist Libertarian regime will not be hamstrung by compassion as they formulate policies to Annihilate the poor, these bow tie sporting psychopaths will give the NAZI murderers a run for the money in the genocide Olympics.

@controlleddemolition9112 3 года назад

@@davidsenderodelsanto I'm not a "regular listener" here. I haven't watched many of his videos because there isn't much useful insight to be gained by studying the strategic and tactical aspects of WW2 in such detail. Wars aren't fought this way any longer. There is more insight to be gained by understanding how and why such a corrupt regime came to power in Germany. That said, I think you're being more than a bit harsh and unfair to describe TIK as a "deranged apologist for the most morally degenerate regime in modern world history". I'd say he's a more than a little "obsessed" with WW2 in Europe. He's a one-trick pony, perhaps, but I don't view him as "deranged" nor do I view him as a Nazi apologist. As for the quote above, I had never heard of Rothbard but there is a valid point in it that extends beyond economics. All too many people confuse their strongly held opinions and beliefs with facts and real insight on a wide range of subjects. The Dunning-Kruger Effect is very much in play in this regard. The less intelligent and competent one might be, the more likely they are to hold such "loud and vociferous" opinions that are completely erroneous. Moreover, does it matter who said it? You never know where you're going to find a little bit of wisdom when it comes to quotes. I like to quote Aristotle, da Vinci or Gandhi, but one of the most truthful and insightful quotes about governments and wars is attributed to Hermann Goering. It's as true today as it was then. All governments have to do to bring "the people" to war is convince them they are under attack and accuse the "peace-mongers" of being unpatriotic.

@nunyabeezaxe2030 3 года назад

@@davidsenderodelsanto Judging by what looks like to be an ANTIFA profile pic I am not surprised that you feel the way you do. I mean what a normie-leftist response that is and I have heard over a decade now. With that said now. Not one bit of your comment refuted anything in Rothbard's quote. You just went on an ad hominem tangent about how anybody center-right is a Nazi and only your side cares about the poor. You say all this sophistry while you LARP in the streets and burn down minority businesses and beat up Asians. And if you are not out in the streets you sure as hell are probably rooting for it. All while you probably penny pinch more than the most adherent Objectivist. You refuse to exchange or sacrifice your time, money and labour to help the poor, unless it to virtue signal to Facebook. And when you are not able to find glory in doing good then it's "its the government's job and not mine" while you consume pop culture toys and indulgences. Champagne socialism at its finest. Funny thing is I know for a fact this is not the first time you have been told the irony of who you really are in relation to what you espouse. Business as usual for both parties I suppose.

@nunyabeezaxe2030 3 года назад

I can't say for sure, but I have a very strong hunch that anybody center-right is too extreme for you.

@nunyabeezaxe2030 3 года назад

Auh. So there is a demand behind it.

@FourOf92000 3 года назад

> no, we call that Keynesianism based and Sowellpilled

@abellseaman4114 3 месяца назад

J. M. Keynes WAS A VERY CLEVER MAN - whose economic theories have been UTTERLY DEGRADED AND POISONED and DELIBERATELY MISS-interpreted BY SHAMELESS LIE-berals who will routinely tell all manner of LIES to justify their aspirations to become Soviet Socalist Dictators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@1crazypj 3 года назад

At 8 minutes I thought 'what am I watching?' It was so fascinating I sat through the entire thing and then thought it ended too soon. What a great explanation. I'm subscribing

@sirguy6678 3 года назад

But TIK- your “facts” clash with my feelings and my terrible memories of history class in public schools- thanks for all you do! Keep up the good work!

@crimson6952 3 года назад

@@Edax_Royeaux Thats all socialism. When there's no free market, there's no capitalism.

@thefrenchareharlequins2743 3 года назад

@@Edax_Royeaux There was a good reason why Pinochet threw the Chilean Stock Exchange into the Pacific.

@thefrenchareharlequins2743 3 года назад

@@Edax_Royeaux I know, I was just poking fun at how the stock market is apparently socialist.

@davidtuttle7556 3 года назад

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 the stock market is a casino. It may have Capitalist origins but it is now a heavily manipulated suckers bet. At least the NYSE is.

@crimson6952 3 года назад

@@Edax_Royeaux Free market= When people exchange goods and services freely without coercion

@CallanElliott 3 года назад

Hold on, this exploitation of the outlying territories in the Reich sounds awfully similar to what happened to the Soviet Republics that bordered Russia.

@edwardcullen1739 3 года назад

"Not real Socialism!" - I think that's the phrase you're looking for :) ;)

@CallanElliott 3 года назад

@@edwardcullen1739 Lmao, just pointing out that the differences between all attempts at real socialism do in fact have more comparisons than contrasts with the Thrid Reich...

@mikebellis5713 3 года назад

@Jasta Two and Britain and Roosevelt were big buddies of Stalin. No war declaration there for doing arguably worse than Hitler

@SusCalvin 3 года назад

It sounds like the age-old "periphery and center" idea about empires, where empires balance on how much parasitic the center can get at the cost of the periphery. 1914 Germany was starting to confiscate goods in occupied territories. Not to the point of slave labour though.

@SusCalvin 3 года назад

@Jasta Yildirim Everyone dislikes the soviet union, even other socialists distrust them.

@GicaKontraglobalismului Год назад

It was Great Britain and France who declared war on Germany September3, 1939 and not vice versa. As in 1914, It was Britain and France who started the war and not Germany.

@libertatemadvocatus1797 6 дней назад

And Germany declared war on several nations beforehand. So don't play the victim card.

@user-jx9gk2gt9p 6 дней назад

And it was the British that started to bomb German cities so Germany retaliated with the blitz. But that's not mentioned in the history books.

@barsukascool 3 дня назад

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

@Somerville431 3 года назад

I liked the deferential allusion to Margaret Thatcher at the very end: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

@Lennon6412 3 года назад

The problem with Thatcherism is eventually you run out of other people's assets to sell

@SusCalvin 3 года назад

Germany went full command economy in the Great War, more than in '43. The german command starts to run the country like a military dictatorship. Both Germanies think confiscating goods from occupied and client nations is fine, but WW II Germany makes it all the way to slave labour. All the powers in Europe slide a little closer to a command economy during wartime.

@SusCalvin 3 года назад

@John Beige What do you think of confiscations in the previous war? The germans are loading up supplies from their captured territories in France at the time. Not at all the same scale as here.

@luelee6168 2 года назад

@@Lennon6412 Thatcher was a statesman, she was clearly speaking from personal experience.

@2paulcoyle 9 месяцев назад

@@Lennon6412The alternative at the time was raise yet more taxes on a dying economy or cut pensions, services. Selling assets was like a once rich family selling the family business. And living large off the sales.....for a while longer.

@angrylinecook 3 года назад

I've learned more about WWII in 6-7 videos with you than 3 yrs of HS and 4 years of BA. Thank you

@joyempire462 3 года назад

WW2 teaching in Australia is optional and you only really learn Australia's participation and the role of blockout blinds, Eastern and Western Fronts not mentioned once

@bijouxdoum6199 3 года назад

Not really. It's through the eyes of an British revisionist. He doesn't ever admit that Hitler requested peace 35+ times, while Churchill firebombed women and children.

@bijouxdoum6199 3 года назад

@R.K. RocketKnight allegedly? Do your research. He called for peace 30+ times starting in 1939.

@LegalTyranny 3 года назад

@R.K. RocketKnight Are you really this lazy that you can't look up the info on the dates peace offerings were made?

@LegalTyranny 3 года назад

@@bijouxdoum6199 You're dealing with an absolute, lazy moron who isn't about to look into the peace offerings.

@zapptavian724 3 года назад

Your channel is by far the best history channel I’ve ever seen, the depth and tremendous research you go into makes this the highest quality production on RU-vid. Keep up the good work

@computerbob2193 2 года назад

The thing about History is it was told to us by the Victors of the wars that they financed and determined the outcomes. The Banking Cabal is just another in a line of evil Cabals in this world that we are just now learning the truth about. Do research from different view points. The truth is somewhere in the middle. We are living in scary but amazing times. Get ready to be blown away.

@haroldfiedler6549 2 года назад

More like the ultimate Anglo / anglophile bogus history on the net.

@TheMattTrakker Год назад

@@haroldfiedler6549 How very clever.

@mr.yellowstrat3352 26 дней назад

@@haroldfiedler6549Specify or F off with that ignorance

@BaseDeltaZero1972 3 года назад

TIK doesn't study this stuff, he straps it to the bench and dissects it under bright lights and a microscope. Suberb understanding of these things and real depth of knowledge.

@realitycheckreally8412 3 года назад

Just found your channel , must say every episode I've watched so far are top draw packed full of detail and presented flawlessly, your Battlestorm Stalingrad series has to be the best on this subject around.

@TheImperatorKnight 3 года назад

Awesome! Glad you're enjoying the videos! :)

@AFGuidesHD 3 года назад

"Germany had to go to war because of the economy" Funnily enough this is also why Britain went to war, I believe in one of the Cabinet meetings the treasury minister basically said "go to war in 1939 or not at all" because the British rearmament campaign would have broken the British economy in 1940.

@Caresfree637 3 года назад

War = Profit

@thefrenchareharlequins2743 3 года назад

@@Caresfree637 Losing trade to the populace you are fighting. Doesn't sound profitable.

@MarkVrem 3 года назад

@@Edax_Royeaux Cause they didn't print fraudelant money within occupied lands as far as I'm aware at least... Probably did have some sort of scam scheme with the Soviets in Iran. but too lazy to look into it lol

@andrewjohnston9115 3 года назад

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 wasn’t British trade primarily with the empire?

@thefrenchareharlequins2743 3 года назад

@@andrewjohnston9115 The white colonies, yes.

@alexandrianautocruiser8024 3 года назад

You are the embodiment of history being taught as an alive subject. Most channels unfortunately just narrate what happened and why, but what I love about your content, that you discuss history actively as a subject to be thought about, analyzed, reconsidered, or even reimagined. I was a history addict before your content. Now, I am a 2x a history addict. :) You remember me? I am the one who always send greetings from Egypt! ;)

Год назад

Another superb video. The precise and clear explanatios by Tik, combined with great graphics, makes a complex issue easy to follow and undertand. Thanks for the great work. Cheers form Peru!

@TheOne-er7nk 3 года назад

So why didn't Brittan and France not declare war on Russia as well?

@derlowe4590 3 года назад

Maybe their guarantee did not serve the purpose they declared?

@alih6953 3 года назад

TIK your channel is a blessing during COVID-19. This is the only excitement I get other than studying 10-12 hours/day. God Bless

@metal87power 3 года назад

I'm studying only through TIK. So?

@alih6953 3 года назад

@@metal87power Lol I am not studying history. I am studying medicine. I meant that TIK excites from the mundane routines of everyday life

@mustafacanguvercin 3 года назад

Tus exam, huh ?

@alih6953 3 года назад

@@mustafacanguvercin Medical Licensing stuff

@edvinparmeza1298 3 года назад

you should say "A blessing from the Lord" XD

@macmac436 3 года назад

EDIT: Most of the people commenting missed the point of my comment. All I was saying is that youtubes algorithm is very aggressive towards history. He took a risk to teach. You must be the most ballsy historian on youtube. Opening up mein kampf and reading notes from it to illustrate Hitlers frame of mind. You sir are a great historian, thank you for putting your channel at risk to teach

@AFGuidesHD 3 года назад

Quoting mein kampf isn't ballsy, however if he made a video titles "the british 'peace front' and why britain started ww2" now that would be ballsy

@alanpennie8013 3 года назад

@@AFGuidesHD You should do it. Wouldn't be hard to do better than Hoggan.

@stephenobrien5909 3 года назад

@@AFGuidesHD No that would be silly as they clearly didn't.

@ThePhantomSafetyPin 3 года назад

Not ballsy, important. You have to know your enemy and the way they thought to understand how you can dismantle it, and why they acted the way they did. The beliefs espoused in Mein Kampf are obviously hideous, but the information we can *get* from Mein Kampf is an important piece of the puzzle.

@AFGuidesHD 3 года назад

@@stephenobrien5909 Perhaps you should read "March 1939: The British Guarantee to Poland" by Simon Newman, because yes, their actions clearly did regardless of intent. Whilst Poland and Germany were in talks over settling their issues amicably one such Noel Mason-Macfarlane wrote a long winded letter to the Cabinet urging for war, days letter when Chamberlain issued the blank cheque to Poland, Alexander Cadogan the permanent under secretary to the foreign office would note "I gather Mason-Macfarlane will approve our action today".

@Ajax-wo3gt Год назад

I have to say, your channel is one of the most enlightening and valuable resources I've found in recent months. Thank you for all your hard work.

@Boomhower89 3 года назад

Chamberlain gave successions to Germany the same reason France did. The British generals and the French generals both were saying the same things “we are not ready for war”.

@kemarisite Месяц назад

Yep. In the fall of 1938 the Hawker Hurricane was available in several squadrons, while the Super Marine Spitfire was barely entering service. A year later, the Spitfire was available in several squadrons while the Hurricane was available in many more squadrons. Prior to them, the British were using, and still had in large numbers, the biplane Gloster Gladiator.

@ichwill7536 3 года назад

Favourite ww2 channel. Thanks for the well researched videos.

@matelic8 3 года назад

Why isn't this taught in school? Thx, for being the best history teacher I ever had.

@w8stral 3 года назад

Because the Marxists after WWII and when the horror stories from the USSR came out all ran and hid in the western school system and have essentially taken it over. Why? Teachers do not have to deal with the real world, they get to preach from bully pulpits about their utopia... with them in charge of course and us peasants kow towing to their magnanimous presence.

@zupalan2265 3 года назад

@@w8stral You're delusional. It's just an incompetent memory based learning system, if you are referring to the USA.

@w8stral 3 года назад

@@zupalan2265 Ah, you must be a delusional Maxists socialist playing pretend games as if you have never been to a college or inside a teachers union which are all or nearly all Marxist socialists in power and are blatantly lying to cover up their incompetence. And every school is based on memory learning as 95% of schooling is just swallowing, and not much thinking until last couple years of high school and college.

@alanpennie8013 3 года назад

@@zupalan2265 He certainly comes across as delusional. He should hide under the bed from those scary Communist teachers.

@KI.765 3 года назад

No time in the curriculum

@ssz2150 3 года назад

27:33 I liked the video for this most historical accurate description of the munich agreement I've ever heard!

@SuZ4242 Год назад

Fascinating. This is my first vid from your channel. Thorough and concise. 🙂

@GeographyCzar 3 года назад

TIK's scholarly work commands my highest respect. I have a Master's degree, but I don't just trot that out to throw weight behind my often unscholarly opinions. I mention it here to add weight to my studied opinion regarding TIK's work. Also, I contribute financially. TIK's work is unique and brilliant in addition to rigorously researched.

@billosby9997 3 года назад

It's good to be reminded from time to time that the possession of an advanced degree doesn't completely preclude good sense and discernment.

@timwillard4298 3 года назад

@@billosby9997 Absolutely. I have a PhD and my wife has a MD. I've seen the type of people that get advanced degrees and they're not always the best and the brightest.

@benbruce9192 3 года назад

You contribute to this nonsense? He has absolutely no grasp of modern economics. "that's what you call Keynesianism" says TIK when he probably hasn't seriously read any of the modern Keynesian literature. He presents an incredibly simplistic view of the economy and without proper academic backing supports a fringe school of economic thought (Austrian Economics).

@timwillard4298 3 года назад

@@benbruce9192 Nobody has a good grasp of modern economics. Monterism died years ago. In recent years the idea that massive increases in money and deficits would automatically cause inflation have not proven true. As we blow up the US debt, interest rates have steadily declined and there is no sign of inflation, contrary to what all traditional economists have said. I suspect it has something to with the enormous growth of international finance capital, some of which is always looking for a safe haven like US Treasuries. In any even, economists seem to have no explanation for what's happening.

@billosby9997 3 года назад

@@benbruce9192 He's probably much better off not to have read "modern Keynesian literature"

@stevej71393 3 года назад

27:27 This video is chock-full of important information, but the prostate exam joke had me in stitches

@CybreSmee 2 года назад

Amazing series, excellent work mate.

@colinburrows4375 3 года назад

You see everything comes down to very simple Wants and needs, I'm really enjoying your videos thank you.

@theeternalsuperstar3773 3 года назад

Sorry TIK, but it doesn't matter whether you list sources, people will still say that you're a lying propagandist because people have ideological and political goals that won't be dentured by irrelevant sentiments such as "reality" "facts" and "logic.

@TheImperatorKnight 3 года назад

True... unfortunately

@andrewjohnston9115 3 года назад

In fairness to them, to be demonstrably told that their most terrible bogeyman of the 20th century (apart from Mrs Thatcher of course) was actually a socialist, and all you have to do is exchange "class" for "race" and both ideologies are virtually inseparable, must be a very very bitter pill to have to swallow. Before TIKs video I had absolutely no idea this was the case, but once seen you can’t unsee it. It’s so obvious once you apply some critical thinking, Jews/Kulaks are both the objects of each regimes hate. TIK you’re doing a great job, keep it up.

@theeternalsuperstar3773 3 года назад

@@andrewjohnston9115 Fair point. I didn't know that national socialism was socialism either before TIK either. I thought the name was a ploy to make the ideology sound good to other nations and the people.

@damyr 3 года назад

@@theeternalsuperstar3773 The problem with that is that people can only learn that entire socialist ideology is bad. It's not. It's actually good and very rational. But, well, not in practice. At least not currently and probably not for quite some time in the future. The actual problem with socialism is that it simply doesn’t work, as it's not compatible with human nature. People are inherently selfish, they don’t want to sacrifice their time and their efforts for someone they don’t know, and there are no benevolent bureaucrats with no self-interest. And those are facts, at least for now. So, yeah, socialism, communism, as well as some other collectivist ideologies are nothing but empty words, because people are not ready for such level of cooperation.

@srelma 3 года назад

@@damyr The actual problem with _both_ capitalism and socialism is that when taken to extreme, they don't work. That's why the most successful countries in the world are those who have best found the sweet spot between these two by letting large parts of the economy being run by capitalist system with as simple and transparent regulation as possible while dealing those parts that are unsuitable for capitalism with a socialist system. And when on top of that you combine it with a system that builds up social capital (that capitalism doesn't have a clue about) by taking care of all members of society, you'll end up in near perfection. That's what the Nordic countries are doing and keep topping year after year the top spots in world happiness rankings. The problem with the simple kind of thinking is that people are both selfish and also have empathy for other people and keep collaborating any many aspects of life. We are neither bees that live in perfect communism, nor tigers who live completely solitary lives, but something between. Economic models that ignore one aspect of human nature or the other, are going to fail. Most of TIK's videos deal with war. A collective war by a nation as a concept is completely impossible if people are 100% selfish. The only way to get soldiers into an army is to appeal to their collective duty to the nation.

@MALITH666 3 года назад

One of the few channels I click instantly. Others being : Military History Visualized, Military History Not Visualized, Mark Felton Productions, Indy Nidell's, Historia Civilis. You guys are so damn good at being through with history. And being part of a history interested community (than some who try to be know it all's).

@user-nf1th3lu3h 3 года назад

You should check the armchair historian too.

@ANWRocketMan 3 года назад

@@user-nf1th3lu3h Much more "popular history" focused. Made for entertainment value, not necessarily a believable presentation of history.

@Sulpbot 3 года назад

You forgot my nigga Potential History

@ParanoidAlaskan 3 года назад

Plainly Difficult and Invicta are good mentions as well

@p_serdiuk 3 года назад

What about The Chieftain, Drachinifel, and Bismarck (Military Aviation History)? Tank Museum as well. Though with them the list gets a bit too long.

@camaradeours1447 2 года назад

What you did is awesome, and the fact that you make a feedback video on this is a proof of your reliability, you could just ignore that and go forward but you take the time to explain to everyone. Keep it up i love you ! I'm a big fan of history, the WW2 in particular and your channel is a big data of entertainment for me. Thank you !

@AttarProductions 3 года назад

Thank you for using the correct definition of inflation.

@YlL-ji2sl Год назад

It's not.

@marcschramm6958 Год назад

@@YlL-ji2sl it’s indeed not. Money growth isn’t inflation. I hate redefinitions that only confuse matters. That doesn’t mean that money growth doesn’t lead to inflation. And inflation was relatively high in Germany and government tried to conceal this by price controls and rationing.

@user-zo3fi1iu9q 2 месяца назад

@@marcschramm6958 The term you are looking for is “devaluation” (of “currency”, since actual “money” rarely lose their value). “Inflation” is indeed expansion of currency base. Btw it’s not the case that Inflation always leads to devaluation. If economy expands inflation is needed to support it otherwise prices might skyrocket as well.

@thefrenchareharlequins2743 3 года назад

I really like how aggressive you sound when quoting Hitler.

@DaveSCameron 3 года назад

He's a real snack our Tikky boi hey*

@thegreathadoken6808 3 года назад

You were my favourite WWII General!

@user-fx9rw7xc1e 3 года назад

@@thegreathadoken6808 Who's now?

@thegreathadoken6808 3 года назад

@@user-fx9rw7xc1e General-Major Heinrich zu Dohna-Tolksdorff!

@thefrenchareharlequins2743 3 года назад

@@thegreathadoken6808 The guy who tried to kill Hitler?

@linnharamis1496 3 года назад

This was another fascinating TIK discussion of the “WHY” background of the complex origins of WW2. Thank you and keep up the good work.👍

@robhitchler9031 3 года назад

@typo pit Pl)p]please L)

@theboofin 3 года назад

@Chandler White Saying 'revisionist' as if it's a bad thing is a similar property... Science does the same.

@spaduke Год назад

The real question for me is that why Churchill won't accept a peace treaty after France surrendered. He's gambling with the fate of the UK for his personal gain. The sad truth is that he won and treated as a war hero. And the same behavior was repeated up to now.

@Hrossey Месяц назад

I stopped taking Adolph serious when I found out he didn’t inhale when he smoked a joint. Don’t be that guy.

@donaldtrumpuncensored6728 2 года назад

Your addition of references as footnotes is an excellent idea, very commendable.

@AFGuidesHD 3 года назад

33:27 so basically Romania started WW2

@tijotypo5252 3 года назад

double crossing the allied, sided with Germany and became communist..... something went wrong

@odysseus2656 3 года назад

@@tijotypo5252 They really had few options.

@odysseus2656 3 года назад

No, we all know that Poland started it when they attacked a radio station (sarc)

@heli0s101 3 года назад

Balkans strike again.

@ian_b 3 года назад

@@odysseus2656 Well, the Germans weren't going to live without the latest pop hits from the Hit Parade on the wireless now were they?

@Kanovskiy 3 года назад

This side of history would make some interesting pc games: 'Close Combat: A loan too far' maybe?

@SusCalvin 3 года назад

On the allied side, the war ends with a bunch of the european powers heavily indebted to the USA. Two huge wars in a row is more than their empires can absorb, financially.

@shyzunk 2 года назад

"People imagine economics to be all about maths and a subject that has no real substance. No, we call that Keynesianism." lol best quote of the video.

@tellerboy48 3 года назад

Honestly I think your video format and camera personality make you the most palatable RU-vid history guy. Ily TIK

@Graphene_314 3 года назад

The "gotta conquer to stabilize the economy. oh no the economy is falling apart because of a lack of conquest" kinda reminds me of Rome, except on 100x fast forward

@alanpennie8013 3 года назад

Also The French Revolutionary Wars, launched because the Revolution. which was the result of a fiscal crisis, had made that crisis even worse

@alanpennie8013 3 года назад

@@ryanward10 There's a depressing thought. Perhaps the Vietnamese will save us.

@davidburroughs2244 3 года назад

It works until it runs out real goods to steal.

@brucetucker4847 3 года назад

The difference is that Rome never pretended it was any other way.

@alanpennie8013 3 года назад

@@brucetucker4847 It's quite interesting that Rome conquered the world despite The Fetial Law, which prohibited wars of aggression.

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer 3 года назад

Hitler was like an addicted Gambler on a hot streak. He had rearmed, he had occupied the rheinland, he had taken Czechoslovakia and cowed to a degree the United Kingdom in France. He had every reason to believe that France and England would back down yet again. It's kind of like that addicted gambler rolling snake eyes and he has his whole steak on the table. Now what. Every signal sent to Nazi Germany prior to the invasion of Poland was one of weakness and acquiescence. Was that kind of feedback for a few years you think you can do whatever the hell you want. Kind of like a spoiled 5 year old.

@5anjuro 3 года назад

Sounds like a certain People's Republic these days.

@ewok40k 3 года назад

Furthermore he kept on gambling down to Barbarossa and declaring war on USA. Hell, he gambled away as late as december 44 Ardennes offensive.

@chadlong9614 3 года назад

You just gained a new fan. Great video

@lukemchale-jones3041 Год назад

I've watched this a couple of times now, and it's a really good analytical piece - its fascinating. I noticed more than a couple of parallels to the invasion of Poland and Germany's reasons and rhetoric to that of the invasion of Ukraine and Russia spin. "History rarely repeats, but it often rhymes" someone once said.

@thanksfernuthin 3 года назад

Damn you! Yours is one of those channels you can't just let play in the background while you do something else. You force me to pay attention and hold my attention with your energetically researched facts. Well... when I explain it like that it's more of a compliment, isn't it. Hmmph.

@krisfrederick5001 3 года назад

You're the only RU-vidr that I have ever heard use the term "Bibliography." It's appreciated. Hitler literally said what he wanted to do, to ignore someone when they do so is incredibly dangerous and the world found that out the hard way. This "Elon Musk" thought themselves into a corner, a lot of words but not a lot of actual thought or perspective.

@timkern462 2 месяца назад

I taught Economics for 15 years. If your video had been available, I could have done it in 42 minutes.

@georgefitzhugh5408 3 года назад

On Czechoslovakia: Neil Ferguson wrote that Chamberlain caved at Munich because the RAF was unready to defend London from terror bombing, which was believed before the war to be a war-winning strategy. Chamberlain expected the Spitfire, flak guns, and civil defense would improve London's chances by late 1939. Also, one can never count on a coup d'Etat's success. Supporting one is just as likely to enrage the existing regime and embarrass one's own regime as it is to succeed. Finally, tiny Czechoslovakia was almost useless as an ally to Britain and France. On Poland: You omit that even the British ambassador to Berlin, Neville Henderson (see his autobiography: "Failure of a Mission") admitted that Germany's initial demand on Poland, a 1 km wide corridor through the Polish Corridor, and the return to Germany of 90% German Danzig, were reasonable demands. But the British encouraged the Poles in their determination not to concede an inch to Germany. Also, Britain and France provided no serious military aid to Poland in 1939. Combined with the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, it's easy to see why Hitler doubted the British guarantee to Poland. On economy: Germany flourishes today because of free trade with the world. American and the British Empire were not free traders before WW2, so the option of Germany growing its way out of debt was not available. Hitler assumed USA/Britain would be hostile to the idea of trade deficits with Germany. Was he wrong?

@yohannbiimu 3 года назад

I had suspected for a long time that the Nazi economy was completely dependant upon the confiscation of the wealth of "undesirables" in their own population, and later entire treasuries of countries that they conquered. I never looked into the reasons for this dependence, but it's good to hear these reasons from you. I also liked your explanation as to how the Nazi's arrangement in control of the German economy couldn't be "Capitalistic." The very idea of "shrinking markets" most certainly couldn't have come from the mind of a "Capitalist."

@SusCalvin Год назад

Germany was still one of the industrialized nations of Europe. The NSDAP ends up taking loans and granting orders and contracts to the existing industrial cartels. In practice, their confiscation of goods lets them treat the civilian german economy with a lighter hand. Germany enters a wartime economy slower than the other powers of Europe. They all have these bombastic, apocalyptic ideas of grand, sweeping struggles against vast sionistic conspiracies. A lot of it only makes sense if you buy into their conviction of a nebulous sionistic conspiracy controlling everything that isn't the true nation-soul. Their idea of the nation-soul itself borders on the occult. There are a lot of different ideas inside the NSDAP. There was a group of people who were much more on board with nationalization of industry, but they ended up getting purged. I always stall because of how many counterintuitive ideals different NSDAP guys have. Sometimes things just happen because the people at the head of the NSDAP are trying to build small empires within the state and balance their power against eachother. Himmler ends up grabbing more and more power towards the end.

@hibernianperspective6183 3 года назад

I think you, MHV and a couple other history content creators are still the only channels using a reference bar or on screen references of any kind and your one of the few with an extensive bibliography. I think this is an great mechanism to allow for viewer engagement and makes watching your videos worthwhile. It should really be the standard for all History/Political/Economic & Academic channel's channels which take themselves & their subject seriously, alas many do not and saturate the internet with myths and 'fun cool thing that happened' rather than the pursuit of the truth. Many 'History channels' today concern themselves with cosmetic factoids and contemporary political agitation rather than asking difficult questions, it's a sneaky way to cherry-pick the past to push a modern agenda. You and about a half dozen other channels are the only one's I have trust in regardless of difference in opinion. "Is this really the case?" has become the default response for any suspect claim I hear people pandering about. Edit: Just got an ad on your video for 'We the People' from Patagonia.com has all the usual 'Great Reset' newspeak.

@randallwithell6496 2 года назад

Very fine orchestration of information from various sources & a convincing statement of the economic drivers behind the military decisions.

@kevinfrazier1271 22 дня назад

I am in love with this channel good stuff brother

@taylorc2542 3 года назад

It's so hard to find history that is free of contemporary political correctness.

@michelguevara151 3 года назад

agreed. it is a mistake to judge history by contemporary standards.

@backalleycqc4790 3 года назад

"Your comment offends me, I'm going to cancel my subscription to 'Cats Today' because of it." -Donald T.

@Quickshot0 3 года назад

Eh, you can just read histories from other places then. Other countries don't hold to the same political correctness. How ever I'm not sure you should say TIK is entirely free of his own biases either, because he kind of likes pushing some of his own ideological beliefs as well. A historical perspective that also constantly questions Keynesianism for instance? Kind of odd, it's not very objective when you keep adding pushing an extra ideological narrative beyond what is needed to understand the historical one. That very economic model wasn't really much of a thing back when this was playing either. So it's kind of bringing a contemporary argument in to history. As such I'd say it's probably wise to balance out this channel with other perspectives, as not everyone agrees with his perspective and some of them also source their arguments. History as is many things is something that gets debated a lot and which ones own beliefs tend to color.

@thethirdman225 3 года назад

@@michelguevara151 So we should ignore all recent research and accept the myths and legends instead?

@thethirdman225 3 года назад

@@Quickshot0 Nothing to do with political correctness. Not unless you are one of those who refuses to accept anything that comes out of the Soviet archives, anyway.

@corsair3886 3 года назад

Thank you for the massive amount of energy and work you do in explaining everything not related just to tanks.

@seanmellows1348 17 дней назад

Really impressed by this work, very interesting, quite challenging, quite persuasive. Thanks

@Celtopia Год назад

Brilliant explanation, thank you !

@krissobieski4341 3 года назад

I really appreciate your efforts to educate people on this. With so many millions of victims, I think it is crucial to understand this time period correctly not just write it off as "A really evil person just couldn't help himself from invading other countries" - you don't prevent a repeat with that level of understanding. Sincerely thank you for all your work.

@0witw047 2 года назад

Is that not basically what happened? Hitler could have just not invaded sovereign countries

@krissobieski4341 2 года назад

@@0witw047 TIK goes into the dynamics behind the choice for war. If people chalk up WW2 solely to Hitler being evil, they might not get alarm bells when the same or similar economic forces push a different leader to a similar choice.

@SusCalvin Год назад

@@krissobieski4341 I don't think you can understand the NSDAP without understanding their worldview. They believe a sionist conspiracy controls international communism, the press, several world governments and international business. Economically, they end up concentrating on rearmament. They grab any quick tool they can get and use it without making too much radical change to the pre-NSDAP german economic model. Germany already had a conservative welfare state, they and other countries already had industrial cartels.

@coelholukas 3 года назад

Also, this different format of camera angles and the Finding the Plec trailer was awesome 😎

@henrymeers234 3 года назад

Well done. I’m a history major as well. A couple of quick additions. Apparently, Britain did not expect Joseph Beck, the Polish foreign minister, to cash their check quite so quickly over the Danzig Corridor; but they knew what they were doing, and their support of Poland was aimed at Berlin. Your comments about Hitler’s economy are right on the mark. The other well know dictator who needed conquest to fund his government was Napoleon I. He was unable to overcome Directoire’s massive Assignats inflation which forced him back onto the the gold standard in February of 1797. Ironically, that was the same month in which Britain ceased convertibility (the “battle” of Fishguard), left the gold standard. England, in contrast, had such a good financial reputation that it had little trouble borrowing money. In those days, borrowers expected wartime inflation to be reversed shortly after the cessation of hostilities with a restoration of the old rate of convertibility; thereby, losing none of their capital in the long run. In 1815, Britain began the process with huge tax cuts and, finally, a return to the gold standard in 1821-that powered 100 years of prosperous world leadership.

@gregsmith7949 3 года назад

I loved the Thomas Sowell quote popping up in the middle of your commentary. Well done Sir, well done.

@kiwitrainguy 2 года назад

That quote sounded to me as though it was describing capitalism ie taking from the many to enrich the few. It was, after all, said by an academic, not someone who has not had to work for wages.

@artofthepossible7329 4 месяца назад

Taking from the poor (interchanchably here with poverty) explicitly demands that they have something to take from, but relative to the total economy, being poor requires that you don't have much to take in the first place.

@benricketts1768 3 года назад

Love Thomas Sowell, glad you do too! 15:10

@Therworldtube 3 года назад

This video is wrong 1 pound does not equal 100p. It's actually like 1/90ish

@michelguevara151 3 года назад

quite right! it equals 240d

@Therworldtube 3 года назад

@@michelguevara151 Man, the pound system is so simple with the dozen, right? Not that dollar system with the decimal system.

@thefrenchareharlequins2743 3 года назад

The pound was decimalised in 1971.

@Therworldtube 3 года назад

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 Which actually helps my point, since this is ww2 era.

@justynagorka3972 2 года назад

Thank you for this video.

@scottlindsly 2 года назад

Riveting analysis, well done! 2 issues left me wondering, if you could please address in a future video (apologies if they are addressed in another video I haven't seen yet): 1) As you mentioned Germany's debt-based economy, which is always a bad idea (sounds familiar to contemporary times & my USA moreso than most, btw)...but WHO was Germany receiving such loans from? Many conspiracies out there on this subject, I'm sure you know...would be refreshing to get well-researched & unbiased facts; 2) Hitler repeatedly alleged horrific atrocities against ethnic Germans who found themselves in a new Poland post-WW1, as a pretext (similar allegations in the Sudetenland)...what reliable documentation exists to prove or disprove such troublesome claim(s)? Thanks, and please keep up the in-depth work!

@guillermonardone3431 3 года назад

Happy to be a patron. You are def one of the only WW2 you tubers to source throughly.

@akacurmurdar1 3 года назад

I'm going to be honest, I was an adult by the time I became aware that the Soviet Union invaded Poland at the same time as Nazi Germany. It wasn't taught in school.

@Cthulhu1PL 3 года назад

How about this: there was a third invader, namely Slovakia.

@shootinputin6332 3 года назад

@@Cthulhu1PL A mere Nazi puppet at that time, though.

@Cthulhu1PL 3 года назад

@@shootinputin6332 Yet still quite an independent country which could decide not to invade.

@shootinputin6332 3 года назад

@@Cthulhu1PL ? It was a Nazi puppet, they had no actual power. If they refused the Nazi's would of just taken full control.

@Cthulhu1PL 3 года назад

@@shootinputin6332 does this justify their action? They could still refuse. Hungary refused.

@theseek7278 3 месяца назад

Why would Germany NOT invade Poland at that time? It's the same scenario of today's Eastern Ukraine. In this case, Germany had held the land conquered for hundreds of years until the end of WWI. Germany recaptured the part of Poland that was theirs before, which had a large ethnic German majority. Just like today's Eastern Ukraine has a large Russian ethnic majority.

@lukemchale-jones3041 3 года назад

That was bloody interesting. Thank you.

@grandadmiralzaarin4962 3 года назад

I can respect the methodical approach you take to your videos and your plethora of sources, it's allowed me to expand my own reading material, for which I am grateful.

@jamesbarca7229 3 года назад

"As so often happens in the course of history, the main difficulty is not to establish a new order of things but to clear the ground for it's establishment." Prophetic words indeed, as this happens before our very eyes.

@vaggs75 3 года назад

Just a short note on economics. If you want to understand it, forget about the currency. An economy is the production of goods and services, as well as their exchange. If you increase production, you become richer, over a long period of time. Almost everything else is just borrowing from the future, or playing around with numbers. If you update a factory, you will have to wait 2-3 years until it pays off. If you become richer within months, then it's probably just borrowing.

@donmcatee45 3 года назад

We've been learning history and repeating it since the beginning, and we will repeat it to the end. Ego has always driven us, coupled with short memories...

@nicholasmatthew9687 3 года назад

I smell some nihilism. I think when you study history it becomes pretty clear that consciousness evolves. There's a reason we can't just look back on history through the lens of our own worldly understanding and expect anything other than inaccuracy . The world changes and people change right along with it. Somethings are definitely likely to repeat themselves but not most. History has actually been broken down into different eras, and they were all vastly different from one another because the accessible world was vastly different. Drawing up a timeline for forms of govenrment and characterize them properly, you'll find that things change rather chronologically. The idea that freedom of the individual being the foundation of govenrments is a wildly new concept when you look at the evolution of human history. I think the only way your statement really holds substance is if one believes all history has been nothing but conquest.

@kiwitrainguy 2 года назад

The policy of appeasement was practised precisely because of the experience of WW1. Chamberlain et al learned very profoundly from the history of WW1.

@kevinbruner9588 3 года назад

Prior to the Polish Defensive War of 1939 against Third Reich and Soviet Union, all of the gold reserves (105,000 kg) were evacuated from Poland to Paris.

@alanpennie8013 3 года назад

Thanks.

@KrissowskiM 3 года назад

True! Also - no atrocities were committed against German minority in Poland! It’s Goebbels propaganda to provide a reason to start the war!

@nicolasmoran7722 3 года назад

Ah yes, the legendary aryan super saiyans. I love that phrase so much xD

@MarkVrem 3 года назад

They'll never be as endowed as an Hung-aryan

@jamesnewstead7099 3 года назад

Power levels are bullshit

@noodled6145 3 года назад

The legendary aryan super saiyans just needed to mass produce the Maus tank :D

@ajsimo2677 3 года назад

@@noodled6145 And mass produce the fuel to run them...

@hakeemzahardi9207 3 года назад

*super aryan

@karagothshlomidabush3727 3 года назад

love your videos dear sir very educational

@MrAitraining Год назад

Damm this is good shit. I need to catch up on your channel! Thanks

@BrotherAl01 3 года назад

TIK, You should really write a book on this so it can be placed with honor on many a bookshelf and place you in that realm of historical correction sorely needed in historical circles. Thank You for What YOU do! PS, that Chamberlain proctology reference was priceless!

@RedGreekWolf 3 года назад

It's 2am and I've never clicked on a notification harder than when this happened

@thegreathadoken6808 3 года назад

Save your mouse button, it doesn't load up the video any quicker! Trust me, I have done extensive research on this!

@RedGreekWolf 3 года назад

@@thegreathadoken6808 my mouse button may suffer from it, but it is a price I willingly pay for my enthusiasm

@stevenspilly Год назад

This is an incredibly insightful video

@Fourwedge Месяц назад

Great video!

@p_serdiuk 3 года назад

You aren't the only one doing references; Real Engineering, for example, puts references in the description in a numbered list and shows these numbers in the corner of the video when talking about specific topics. Military History Visualized is also pretty good about citations.

@w8stral 3 года назад

"Real Engineering" s "references" may as well be kindergarten coloring books for 95% of them.

@commonsensetony2480 3 года назад

I've studied history my entire life. I've questioned a few of tiks stuff. He's always been accurate as for what I see! Love your videos.. Glad for ur channel I love history more importantly I love the truth in the history on this channel! Love from Flint Michigan U.S.A

@kgsniper4850 2 года назад

How’s the water?

@Nigel-wu5lj 15 дней назад

Hitler had no desire to go to war with England. He offered England an olive branch repeatedly and Churchill and his circle shunned Hitler repeatedly.

@thebeardbeastx Год назад

Great content.

@Ross-ch9vv 3 года назад

“Socialism only works until you run out of other peoples money” Im using this

@CEFFYYNWA 3 года назад

Its funny because that is exactly how capitalism works

@MarkaNgamer Год назад

So does everything

@CronoZoneDJ 3 года назад

In the inflation equation, in addition to the Weimar Republic and Venezuela, you miss Argentina ... I wanted to ask you if at any time you are going to touch on the subject of Japan, its role in World War II, its economy, ideology and the diplomatic twists and turns prior to Perl Harbor. Excellent video as always.

@kissmyass66666 Год назад

Tik you are absolutely wrong about Mein Kamph. Speer clearly states that Hitler said it no longer was accurate or relevant in his memoirs distinctly dismissing it out of hand.

@user-xg8yy7yl1d 3 года назад

"when Britain declared war on Germany but not the soviet union." This one thing and the fact that they sweep it under the rug and gloss over it to this day is the reason there are still so many conspiracies surrounding ww2

@dragosstanciu9866 3 года назад

It would have been suicide for Britain to fight Germany and the USSR at the same time. Britain would have lost the war.

@captainneedadrink 3 года назад

The British guarantee contained a secret provision that it was only directed against Germany. It was meant to provide a tripwire for the war the British and FDR were preparing for as confirmed by the secret Polish diplomatic cables captured in Warsaw in 1939.

@JeremyMacDonald1973 3 года назад

@@captainneedadrink See Operation Pike. While Britain and France did not want to fight Russia they had come to believe that they might have no choice in the matter.

@SusCalvin 2 года назад

Reaching back to 1917, the entante powers are generally pro-duma and want to keep Russia in the Great War. One of the big promises the communists make is a russian separate peace.

@gumdeo 2 года назад

They had another chance to declare war on the Soviets when the Red Army invaded Finland in November 1939. But again, nothing.

@jamesbooth3694 3 года назад

As an economics student this really helped! Wasn't expecting to learn economics :) thanks

@thefrenchareharlequins2743 3 года назад

What is more important, military history or political history? Neither, *E C O N O M I C S*

@benbruce9192 3 года назад

This isn't economics. Please please please do not think this man has an understanding of economic thought. Would be happy to introduce you to some sources on real economics (I have an MA)

@thefrenchareharlequins2743 3 года назад

@@benbruce9192 Does "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell count?

@srelma 3 года назад

I hope you don't take TIK's word as any kind of proof that his views align with any mainline thinking in economics.

@thefrenchareharlequins2743 3 года назад

@@srelma And? It once was mainline to think that miasma caused cholera.

@Drain-Life-Archive 3 года назад

I think another reason they invaded Poland is simply because it was in the way. They wanted Russia and that means going through Poland first to get there.

@davidburroughs2244 3 года назад

And to get the polish stuff for free to fund his next stages.

@KrissowskiM 3 года назад

They also were paying huge custom taxes for moving any goods to eastern Preussia- that was the whole deal with corridor and Gdansk!

@gloriascientiae7435 2 года назад

An excellent lecture on the economics of guitar pics.

@unitedstatesofamericamilit8588 2 года назад

THIS CHANNEL IS A GEM!

@morningstar9233 3 года назад

Thanks. I too have always been curious about Hitler's "What now?" reaction to Great Britain's declaration of war.

@IL2TXGunslinger 3 года назад

I scored “Hitler’s Beneficiaries” from you TIK and actually read that monumental piece of work. If more people would just read the references ..... well, it would be a better world now, wouldn’t it? Thanks a million for that book

@SusCalvin 3 года назад

The snag I hit with the NSDAP is their organisation itself. The different factions inside it, how they balance eachothers power. How much different parts of the german state could distrust eachother. It's like a circle of people and factions trying to build their own powerbase within the state.

@IL2TXGunslinger 3 года назад

@@SusCalvin Yes. It's ironic how that distrust/power brokerage struggle goes on and on in many governments today. I think they all have it at some level. It's the nature of politics and mankind.

@SusCalvin 3 года назад

@@IL2TXGunslinger A lot of dictatorships have it weirder because they remove balances of power and has to use different ones. Like how close was Churchill ever to a palace coup in the war years. If I'm a dictator trying to be alone at the top and institute my elite Deathguard to keep me there, what keeps those guys from doing me in. So you end up with a lot of parallell organisations with the job of keeping eachother in check. And suddenly there's four security agencies all doing the same job.

@IL2TXGunslinger 3 года назад

@@SusCalvin I concur 100%. The dictatorships become then - the most inefficient governments over time, exactly the opposite of “streamlining” the decision process. Gradually devote more and more treasure from traditional tasks/organizations toward remaining in power.

@markamiller1970 3 года назад

Love this video! It is sad that you have to break it down Barney style for folks. But thank you for doing it.

@swalker3175 2 года назад

Just a quick point regarding lending and consumption. You contend that lending allows more consumption today but less tomorrow. This is naturally an oversimplification of lending and is true mainly for individuals or individual households. When lending is put in national and global contexts where it can be invested in infrastructure or technologies which allow for improvements in efficiency then this simplified process of lending no longer applies. I'm not actually dismissing your overall argument in this video at all but would just like to make the point that the principles of lending in national contexts are not always the same as personal lending.

@neojso 3 года назад

Now it all make sense. Conflict is all about interest which are essentially power and money. It is always that way before, now and forever. 👍 Thanks for that insightful video.

@sylvainprigent6234 3 года назад

Great video as usual I have one objection. At 33:55 you say that Chamberlain now wanted to create an alliance between him, France, USSR and Poland. I am not communist but I remember that their were attempts to create a form of "collective security" from the USSR (they had seen mein kampf. They had seen the map. They knew that they were on the list). France was originally ok with it - until the foreign minister at the time was killed, then they took an anti-communist stance. The UK under Chamberlain was completely opposed to it. And did not respond to the Soviet advances. And when Germany was making it's moves to create the Molotov-ribentrop pact, after the annexation of the rest of Tchécoslovacia, they(Fr and UK)sent admiral-what's his-name and General nobody to negotiate an alliance with Moskow. The British representative at this conference did not even have a plenipotentiary Letter from his government to make his negotiating powers official. TLDR, Chamberlain did not really wanted to create an alliance with the Russians, and their were a lot of dragging feet from the western powers to go forward with this. Meanwhile, Molotov-ribentrop pact.

@alanpennie8013 3 года назад

The British were opposed to a formal alliance for two reasons, the danger of war with Japan and the Soviet demand that they be given control of the Baltic republics ( which seemed too much like a new Munich from the British pov).

@simplicius11 3 года назад

@@alanpennie8013 The Soviets asked for *guaranties of independence* of the Baltic republics.

@markmulligan571 Год назад

Your argument sounds cogent to me, more coherent than most others I've heard on this topic. What scares me most is that, barring anecdotal and biographical details, in almost all of your sentences, the word Putin could replace the word Hitler. That leads to two scary conclusions: A) that the threat of economic collapse instigated his (Putin's) assault on Ukraine and B that makes World War III a self-fulfilling prophecy in his (Putin's) analysis. When Putin says "the West" he could just as well be using a notoriously anti-Semitic Russian dog whistle code for the International Jewish-Communists now Capitalists-homosexual-baby eater conspiracy, cha cha cha.

@tvanb8729 2 года назад

TIK, I just watched ' Im angesicht des krieges'. A beautiful Netflix show about 2 friends on different sides in the prelude of ww2. One is in Chamberlains club and the other one sees Hitler. I realised they follow your story line! You'r theory of a Chamberlain with german resistance waiting on him to back down to sudetenland agreement got support. Very good..if more follow history books needs to be rewritten. There was a chance in history. Nice man. Proud supporter of your cause.