Nazi aggression and appeasement | The 20th century | World history | Khan Academy

I am unsure if I understood correctly (my English is not on high enough level), but if you are by any chance arguing about killing Germans (not soldiers) "en masse", there was a massive number of murders of Germans once the WW2 ended in Sudetenland. Many Germans moved there (Germany is winning), and once Germany lost the war, the angry Czechoslovakians forced them to leave Czechoslovakian soil, looted their belongings and killed some of them. (too slow, too tired to move)

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0:25 couldn't care less* COULDN'T. COULD NOT. if you could care less, all you are stating is that the amount at which you care is not zero, which is the OPPOSITE of what you are trying to say. GOD DAMN IT.

How often in history is a country to eager for war and rushes into it, their are far fewer instances of a nation that should have gone to war but stalled.

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you forgot to mention about the takeover of the saar land 1935 and about the take over of the memmel land in east prussia 1939 ans also trying to take danzig from poland witch did not work in 1939 also

Khan Academy I don't know if I would use the term appeasement to describe the fact that France and the UK ignored German aggression prior to WW2. The Germany we know today wasn't really established until 1871 and was a young nation. Up until that point it was pretty chaotic with states like Austria, Poland, Russia, and Prussia all bidding for control over the others. There were constant regime and organizational changes for hundreds of years. I think it's safe to say that conflicts over territory in that region was the status quo.

Like you said no one really wanted to start a fight with Germany. With it's monarchy dissolved after WW1, I think Britain understood that there were going to be more changes and other lands would be annexed into Germany. Since most of the acquisitions like the Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia were fairly peaceful. Perhaps thinking that Germany would calm down Britain didn't feel a need to do anything. It was the agreement with Russia and the invasion of Poland that I think made Britain come to and see that they weren't going to stop.

The best analogy I can come up with to describe Germany is a neighbor family that gets into a big shouting match once a week. After they stop fighting everyone calms down for the rest of the week, until the following week when someone leaves or comes for a visit. Sure it's loud and sounds bad but they keep it inside, it's something that you just get used to. WW1 and WW2 are those fights that got physical and spilled over into your property, which forced you to call the police.  

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You forgot about the war in Spain

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Thing is the allies unfairly took all that land from Germany in the first place in 1919

I think that Chamberlain did the right thing here, his country was in the depression and was still recovering from WW1 and really weren’t able to fight a war at that point. He was just trying to maintain peace.

It wasn't "appeasement" when the UK and France were occupying half the world.

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You only have 1 side of the history story of the RHINELAND---After World War I the Treaty of Versailles not only restored Alsace-Lorraine to France but also allowed Allied troops to occupy portions of the right and left banks of the German Rhineland for about 5 to 15 years. Moreover, the German left bank and a right-bank strip 30 miles (50 km) deep were to be permanently demilitarized. The Rhineland was the scene of recurrent crises and controversies during the 1920's.  The Franco-Soviet five-year treaty of mutual guarantee (May 2, 1935) was declared by Nazi Germany to be a violation of earlier international agreements.

Keep in mind when they announced the rearmament of the military on the 16th of March 1935 they had already had a plebiscite (Referendum/Vote) to annex the Saarland on the 1st of March 1935 that can be considered the first real sign of aggression on the German behalf

In March 1939 they also annexed the territory of Memel in Lithuania

In March 1939 when Bohemia/Moravia became apart of the 3rd Reich Slovakia became a puppet state of the Germans and the rest of the nation became Carpatho-Ruthenia which was eventually annexed into the Hungarian dictatorship along with South Slovakia

Even in hindsight, it was not a mistake.
Unfortunately, the way the world had been set up post-WW1, there was no alternative to appeasing Hitler.
And even those relying on "Churchill" (aka "the hardliner") for their alternative istory, must admit reality.
If in power, Churchill would have done the same as Chamberlain, because (reality) the British Prime Minister doesn't have the authority to declare war out of the blue, and that would have depended on how the ministers would have debated it out...

The second "reality" was that in 1938, the Legion Condor was in Spain, next to Gibraltar (15,000 well-trained and combat ready soldiers with tanks and air support). Also, an Italian dictator keen on "Mare Nostrum" and a Spain which would have liked Gibraltar back....hmmm....
Churchill of course, was a naval strategist.
1) Would Churchill (a navy guy) have risked losing Gibraltar to "protect little nations"?
2) What would the lords in London have thought about "protecting little nations"?
3) And even if they did value "little nations" enough to declare war on their behalf, what would have been the first military/strategic priority had it come to war in 1938?

Especially the last one being not a difficult question to answer...

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Khan continually refers to it as "German aggression" in this propaganda clip. Why? For taking back former German territory that was taken from it after the WW1? The Rhineland? Sudetenland? All lands taken from Germany. They were simply reclaiming it and all the people in those lands cheered them when they came in. And "invading" Poland? Poland seized Danzig after WW1, where more than 80% of its residents were German-speaking and never wanted to be part of Poland. Poland refused to return Danzig back to Germany when they told them to. Danzig residents cheered the Germans too when they entered. There was no aggression. It was just trying to right the wrongs that were done to it. Napoleon was right when he said, "History is a set of generally-agreed upon lies."

Bad-too short in beginning.forgot soo many pacts west countries with Germany and Poland invasion to Czechoslowakia

The Nazis made illegal terror weapons:

King tiger tank which kills all tanks in one shot

U-boats which are basically underwater pirate terror ships in the seas

The evil pirate terror battleship the Bismarck battleship which had to be stopped by air power

Finally the evil high speed sky terror weapon the Me-262s.

Britain was in NO position to stop the Germans from doing anything.

Hitler: I want that thing

Neville: You can't have that thing- ok you can have that thing but no more

Hitler: I want that thing

Oversimplified

APPEASE GERMANY

Very poor but well intended. Hitler was not interested in the Sudeten Germans, he wanted Polands flank, and France and the UK were not about not rocking the boat, their policy was to stop Hitler going too far.

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With everything I hear about the NAZIs, I was expecting much more. Maybe I was getting it confused with WWI Germany.

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So thaaaats why they went to to war. I thought they just took over by force and troops were sent while they seize Europe. Makes sense now.

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what hitler should have done is slowly infiltrate the politics of each of the countries he wanted for liebensraum instead of aggressively invading them has he done that they would have eventually all turned nazi due to economic benefits and then he could have essentually legally absorbed all those nations doing this in the mean time building strong economic ties with western europe and the usa potentially doing a tour of those nations gaining their favour and slowly building anti soviet propaganda such that when he invades russia he couls have had the western support then after that he could have simply taken western europe and force the usa into debt and take over the rest of the world

Can that honestly be called German "aggression"? Germany did not even start WWI yet were punished so harshly and strangely with artificial nations being skewed into every side of the nation and constantly having to worry about France marching into the nation to essentially loot it for reparations for the great war. Everything having to do with aggression in this video just seems to be logical steps any nation and people put in similar situations would have done or has done.

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