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To: Brumar89 who wrote (861724)	6/4/2015 1:26:46 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577029

I think even without that pact that Germany would have taken Western Europe. I don't think Stalin would have tried to do anything to interfere. I think some liberals liked the "idea" of the Soviet Union in the 20's and early 30's. It wasn't like they were hearing anything about the gulags or the rest of the bad stuff. They just heard the propaganda and they went for it. It wasn't like the average working stiff in the U.S. was living the life of riley at that time. In the early 30's everybody knew about food lines and farm foreclosures so all this fantasy stuff from Russia probably sounded pretty good.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (861724)	6/4/2015 1:48:18 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577029

Without the two year Nazi-Soviet joint aggression pact, Hitler may not have even invaded western Europe at all. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed 8/23/39 and held until 6/22/41. While Germany thought it didn't have to worry about an enemy to its east, it took Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France. From Czechoslovakia west to the Atlantic, every nation was either neutral, occupied by or allied with the Nazis. Only then did he turn on his Soviet ally and launch the holocaust. First the holocaust started before 1939.........Kristallnacht took place in 1938. Secondly there is the German concept of Lebensraum. Hitler actively sought Lebensraum ("living space") for the German people. That included Germans in Romania, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Thirdly, he also consider the Nordics of Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Belgium to be Aryans and should be part of the German empire. Finally, his strategy for German domination of Europe was pretty much laid on in his book, Mein Kampf.