Even in 1940 a total French collapse in the face of a resurrected German Army seemed unlikely. In 1933 it seemed impossible.
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@crimkadid In August '39, William Bullitt, the American Ambassador in France wrote home that if Hitler took Poland,1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@crimkadid "It was exceedingly doubtful, to put it mildly, that France and England would be able to win the war." http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS1939v01.p0315&id=FRUS.FRUS1939v01&isize=M&q1=conquer …2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes -
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Hitler's General Staff were in a better position to know the truth and they were certain of defeat.pic.twitter.com/1OlL9QMEjR
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@crimkadid Literally the next sentence in that book is that Beck was alone in his objections and was quickly replaced.2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
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Next page: "So deep was their disapproval of Hitler's reckless drive to war that they began to make plans to overthrow him".
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@crimkadid This is pretty straightforward: every European state feared Germany, and increasingly so, in the 1930s. And they were right.2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
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Americans in 1930's didn't give Jewish question urgency because they thought there were other safe havens. This was not crazy.
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@crimkadid This is sadly untrue. You can't let people off the hook. FDR himself, 6/8/39, acknowledges the problem:pic.twitter.com/NlZ2xXLBwV
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@crimkadid We put up immigration barriers to Eastern & Southern Europeans in the 20s bc we didn't want more Eastern & Southern Europeans.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
This was also not at all crazy, but that's a different conversation.
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