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Old 01-21-2008, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Goldstone69 View Post
If`s and buts are rather important when viewing WW2 IF the RAF had not won the Battle of Britain in 1940 stopping the Invasion of the UK there would have been no Normandy, no convoys to Russia and all the Divisions and Squadrons based in France waiting to invade Britain and the Afrika Korps fighting the British in North Africa would have been free to join the Attack on Russia... considering how close the Germans came to defeating Russia (outskirts of Moscow ) this IF is rather significant .
Are you referring to my post? Well I have other IFs also! IF there wouldn't have been these nationalism, militarism and revanchism there wouldn't have been war at all!

The court in Munich in 1923 didn't judge Hitler after the coup against the republic as it was usual. Most courts were on the side of the military because they wanted the monarchy back. Hitler got accused on high treason and high treason was judged with the deportation of foreigners what the judge declined. Because Hitler was - according to the court's decision - a man who thought and felt so "german" that the law couldn't get applied on him. In fact the court favoured Hitler's fight against the limitation of Germany's military.

IF they would have listened to pacifists and antimilitarists there wouldn't have been any remilitarization of Germany -> no war.
IF speaking against war wouldn't have been punished with the death sentence more people would have tried to stop it.
It is estimated that the Nazis imposed more than 30 000 death sentences,
22 000 against deserters.
It is fact that the Third Reich was build upon militarism.
It is fact that militarism caused the Holocaust and 57 million dead humans.
It is fact that followers of every ideology, except militarists get persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, murdered. Except the militarists cause it are the militarists who kill the followers of every other ideology!
IF there wouldn't have been a peaceful national strike in Holland they would have deported Hundreds of Jews. There were several such actions and many of them worked even though they had to be organized very fast.

I tried to find an alternative of fighting the German Reich and WW2 and IF civil defence would have been known and if it would have been prepared as they prepare(d) the military and use(d) it, it would have worked.
IF there wouldn't be any military, any weapons, any soldiers there wouldn't be war. Militarism is the cause of war.
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