Biggest Mistakes the Axis made iyo.

[Ted Striker]

I told Hans Blix I deleted all that **** last year!!!!

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Ned

The Nazis are rightly condemned for their racism. They are rightly condemned for their one-party, totalitarian rule. But, neither is the reason for the outbreak of WWII.

Say what you will about National Socialism Dude, at least it's an ethos.

[Ecthy]

nothing ever changes!

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Ned

2) What interest did Britain have in interfering with German-Polish negotiations?

Which 'negotiations' ? The German air raids on Warsaw, or the blitzkrieg across Poland's borders?

On 29th March, 1939, the German correspondent of 'The News Chronicle' (just expelled from Germany) brought the news of German troop movements near Poland (this information was from German generals) to London.

On 31st March, Chamberlain wrote a personal assurance to the Poles that in the event of their independence being threatened, the British and French governments would lend them all their support.

On 3rd April this guarantee to the Poles was announced in the House of Commons.

On 28th April, Hitler repudiated his non-aggression pact with Poland of 1934, and the Anglo-German naval agreement of 1935.

In point of fact, Chamberlain and Halifax used a Swedish go-between to attempt to dissuade Hitler from going to war. Halifax even urged Poland's Beck to negotiate with Hitler, pressure which Beck resisted.

So despite breaking the Versailles Treaty, breaking treaties with Czechoslovakia and repudiating other treaties with both Poland and Great Britain, the British were still urging peace on Hitler, right up until the 31st August, when he gave the order to atatck Poland.

It was only six days later than the original date set for it when he had been revelling in the opportunities provided by the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

[Saras]

Originally posted by molly bloom
<...> in March of 1939 Hitler <...> pressured Lithuania to return Memel <...>

It's called Klaipeda and it was not "returned" but annexed

[Ecthy]

Its population being largely German at the time it's quite appropriate to use the German name Memel.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Saras


It's called Klaipeda and it was not "returned" but annexed

I'm not here to fight ethnic battles, I was repeating Hitler's demands.

Given that he was trying to build a Greater German Thousand Year Reich, I hardly think he was going to ask in Lithuanian for the return of what he saw as German territory. I don't imagine he referred to Danzig as Gdansk, either, or Lwow/Lviv, or Aix-la-Chapelle, or Ljubljana.

He probably even referred to Cologne as Koln, and Vienna as Wien! Was the man crazy ?

[Ecthy]

Reichsprotektorat Muskowien.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
Reichsprotektorat Muskowien.

Jedermann Sein eigner Fussball.

[Ecthy]

You're truly the Grösaz - Größter Spammer aller Zeiten.

[Saras]

Dumkopf ossie

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
You're truly the Grösaz - Größter Spammer aller Zeiten.

Durch stetigen Zerfall
Entstehen radioaktive Strahlen aus dem Urankristall .

[Saras]

wow... you can rhyme in German

[Ecthy]

Ganz Apolyton steht still, wenn der Ecthy es so will.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Saras
wow... you can rhyme in German

Indeed:

Hermann Goering

Arschloch


Easy peasy, my three word German poem.


(p.s., 'twas Kraftwerk lyrics from Radioaktivitat, by the way)