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sandyRoe | 11:07 Wed 15th Jan 2025 | History
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The Nazis hadn't invaded Poland in 1939, but rather launched their attack on Russia through Czechoslovakia and Romania, how would the war have finished?

The Ukrainians, no fans of the Soviets, might have agreed to form a Vichy government.  The great powers of the West, Britain, France, and the USA, would have been happy to stand aside and watch the totalitarian states tear each other apart.

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No, not bored.  I'm just trying to entertain my fans here in AB.

...and if  Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car had not had a dodgy reverse gear, WW1 would have been avoided.

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No. A lot worse.

12:43 worse, they'd be nuking each other for mis sizing.

Hitler mistakenly believed that Britain would not honour the treaty with Poland, so invading the east (avoiding Poland) might have been a good strategy in hindsight.

But in reality, following the invasion of Poland was ‘the phoney war’ in which not much happened for 9 months from the Allies – Hitler’s big mistake was to ignore his own advice (not to fight on more than one front), by invading the Netherlands, Belgium, France etc.

The war officially started with the invasion of Poland but the it really started with the Reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936. TGM wanted to stop it then, could have too but Europe was too timnid to nip it in the bud. Arguably WW2 was really guaranteed by the TOV in 1919.

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