Thursday, February 7, 2008
Czechoslovakia
After Austria, Hitler said that he would not seek any more land. However, not long after he turned his sight on Czechoslovakia. If the allies had helped defend Czechoslovakia, who had a modern army, instead of appeasing Hitler, do you think he would have stopped his power grabing of European countries?
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I dont think he would've stopped trying to acquire more nations, I think he would've just used a different strategy. He might have built his army up even more or gone to war over it. The only thing I think that would've stopped him is by defeating Germany and removing the Nazis from power.
i agree that Hitler wouldn't have stopped in his quest for more land-even though he had a non-aggression pact with the Soviets, that didn't stop him from invading. I think Hitler always wanted to invade Russia-the two countries had been rivals for many years. Even in medieval times, German military leaders exercised "Drang Nach Osten" which were raids to the east meant to acquire more lands-Hitler appeared to have ordered the last of these in 1941.
Indeed, though Hitler would not have stopped going for it, defending the Czechs, or at least letting them defend themselves, would have forced Germany into war sooner than they would have been ready for. Certainly all the careful planning they did in 1939 and early 1940 about taking over France would have gone by the wayside as the became embroiled in the Czech mountains, with the possibility of an Allied invasion into Germany.
the overtaking of czechoslovakia was an interesting and a much debatable move by hitler. could it have gone differently if britain and france didnt side or sign with hitler, maybe. I feel that with the overtaking of czech and hitlers confinement of the best weapon manufactuary was a large success and would later go on to help his overtaking. this overtaking of czech also allowed for much propaganda to gain a greater support or the germans country. If hitler did not take over czech in the first years or the war, then i do not think that it would have had such momentum.
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