Nevertheless, when they were so cohesive, why
– accepting the arranged marriage (which they laid off two times last century)
– allowing foreign powers to use their area as a populated deployment zone
– withhold the german (and other) minorities the rights they should have according to Versailles
– not drawing the conclusion of this which would have assured them that they will be sacrificed without mercy by their western friends (can we say “western”, at least the Warburgs were “transnational”)

“it is interesting to note that Hitler towards the end stated that maybe Stalin was right in purging many of his Generals before the outbreak of the war, since they were not ideologically motivated enough and that, perhaps, he made a mistake in siding with the Army against Rohm in the “night of the long knives”.”
Doesn´t the generals of the red army rescued their country by demanding more power for themselves after the disaster in the beginning? Maybe Hitler thought about a more strict punishment for military personnel like the “kommissars” carried out. (Hitler himself limited death-penalties to officers, generals were more likely to be forced to retire at some nice refugium in germany)

Very interesting discussion on the H. Castrup show. Couple of points to remember is that one need only “be ready to a certain degree”: as Hitler quite well understood, TIMING, also counts for a certain amount of divisions.

The more one studies Hitler, the more one is amazed at his profound insights, both politically AND militarily. On the former he understood he was up against the Jewish plutocrats in the West and the Jewish Bosheviks in the East. He was ahead technologically and tactically. He knew war would come, in any case, and time was not on Germany’s side; thus, any war had to be won quickly at the right moment. On May 5, 1941, Stalin gives a top secret speech at a banquet for one thousand graduating officers from Moscow’s staff colleges, where he states, “It is time to stop chewing that particular cud [promoting the peace movement], Comrade Chosin: stop being a simpleton! The era of forcible expansion has begun for the Soviet Union.”

And so all the “timing”, i.e., conquests, of the last years solidified Germany to funnel everything East without danger from other directions.

On the the treachery and “lack of spirit” of too many Generals, it is interesting to note that Hitler towards the end stated that maybe Stalin was right in purging many of his Generals before the outbreak of the war, since they were not ideologically motivated enough and that, perhaps, he made a mistake in siding with the Army against Rohm in the “night of the long knives”.

Ulf, of course, the Czech and Slovak unitarian state (with 3 million Germans) was as peace-promoting as leaving East Prussia separate and a 97% German Danzig as a Free City! BUT Czechs are a very defined and strong nationality. Just go to Prague and see around.

I am translating an interesting interview by a Polish half-revisionist, historian and and writer. It is coming soon on my blog. It’s about Poland’s options in 1939.

Of course the elite was poisoning the ordinary people with propaganda and fear of the germans. But I have heard that the ordinary people were convinced that Poland would win the war.

The Czechs and the Poles were led by the freemasons. Their chauvinism and the hatred towards the Germans were not natural reactions or the genuine part of their culture. They were brainwashed by the freemasons from the very beginning (soon in 1800th Century).

I think tha the polis elite was a puppet of the West. It did fear more the Western countries than the Russia and the Germany. Otherwise it would not have done as the Western countries demanded. They did not want to give Danzig to the Germany and seek peace with it. Instead they wanted to kill and expulse all the germans of Danzig too. They did not care to defense their border with the Soviet Union.