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NorthernGent -> RE: Pearl Harbor Day (12/27/2015 3:40:37 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
My point and that of others here, was that prior to Hitler even invading Poland and for some years, wanted no part of a European continental war. Hitler's biggest concern was communism and the international bankers that financed them and would finance both sides in a world war.
The most important concern of the Nazi Party was blood or racial doctrine.
Everything else, such as his views on Communism and 'the international bankers' was a product of said core thinking at the heart of both their domestic and foreign policy.
And, of course when he said Communism and 'the international bankers', he meant: "the Jews".
In his strange world "the Jews" were the reason why Germany had failed to compete with the likes of Britain. The irony being that it was their tendency to look inwards for the answers, and focus on areas such as blood and race, while Britain looked outwards and focused on commerce; that was the reason why they failed to compete with Britain.
In his world, and the world of his associates, France was decadent, the United States was decadent, Britain was rapacious, Slavs were inferior and "the Jews" were sub-human.
You see the theme? Poor old Germany, everyone else is inferior, everyone else is plotting to keep us down, why can't we get what we deserve which is the superior German race running Europe.
Hitler and associates borrowed most of their ideas from 19th century Germany. The idea of German High Kultur, which in their minds was far superior to say France; and they actually believed, not just the Nazis; but those such as Wagner who was a favourite of Hitler's: that only Germany could save European civilisation.
You see the theme? Huge admirers of themselves, except no on shared this view of Germany as some bastion of culture.
Ultimately, when you boil it down to its bones: Germany felt it was not getting its just desserts, which in practice meant dominating continental Europe, and the Nazis were very keen to make that happen as were Germans who had gone before him.
And, why would Britain want an alliance with those jokers and their ill-conceived, half-baked ideas? We simply did not agree with them.
Yeah, by all means, cite Germany's peace feelers towards Britain, but in the event you don't like what they have to say then you ain't gonna have an alliance.
Said peace feelers doesn't mean that somehow they were peaceful, or had any designs on peace whatsoever, it meant that they wanted to keep Britain out of it for obvious reasons: those reasons being the difficulties of fighting a war on two fronts when the inevitable invasion of Eastern Europe came. Just as the Germans of 1914 wanted to keep Britain out of it, and those Germans did a lot more pleading to Britain than Hitler ever did.
Those peace feelers were no more than manipulating the stage before they got down to business.
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