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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (13887)	2/28/2003 11:01:32 AM
From: Mark Konrad	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25898

Winston Churchill stood virtually alone in condemning Chamberlain's "Peace in our time" as an "unmitigated disaster." It is unlikely Hitler would have destroyed so much of Europe and millions of lives had he been stopped by the late 30's. Albert Speer, the managerial genius who was able to increase Nazi weapons production right up to 1945, wrote the following: [The war Bruckner was predicting was averted again more because of the compliance of the Western powers than because of any reasonableness on Hitler's part. The surrender of the Sudetenland to Germany took place before the eyes of a frightened world and of Hitler's followers, now completely convinced of their leaders invincibility.] And further: [The Czech border fortifications caused general astonishment. To the surprise of experts a test bombardment showed that our weapons would not have prevailed against them. Hitler himself went to the former frontier to inspect the arrangements and returned impressed. The fortifications were amazingly massive, he said, laid out with extraordinary skill and echeloned, making prime use of the terrain. "Given a resolute defense, taking them would have been very difficult and would have cost us a great many lives. Now we have obtained them without loss of blood. One thing is certain: I shall never again permit the Czechs to build a new defense line. We are over the mountains and already in the valleys of Bohemia."] excerpts from "Inside the Third Reich," Albert Speer, 1970, The Macmillan Company. Do you see any similarity at all between Hitler's manipulation of the League of Nations and Saddam's manipulation of the United Nations?--MK--