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Old 7th November 2017, 09:22 AM   #361
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That sounds like "they are entitled to secede if they secede successfully" in which case why talk about it in the language of rights at all?
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Old 7th November 2017, 09:47 AM   #362
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Yes, they had same rights. But those rights never included right to secede! Nobody had them. That land was always under Czech kingdom.

Frankly, I am not even sure where the hell you get notion that settlers of land under one country should be somehow entitled to that thing...
I don't have that notion at all. The Sudeteners of 1938 were not settlers. They were the descendants of people who had been invited to enter the country more than half a millennium previously.

But in any case I don't think they were entitled to transfer any land from Czechoslovakia to the German Reich.
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The appeasement policy of Chamberlain was right judgement from a military perspective.
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Old 1st December 2017, 10:46 AM   #364
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Originally Posted by Henri McPhee View Post
The appeasement policy of Chamberlain was right judgement from a military perspective.
The blue tiles in my bathroom are right judgement from an aesthetic perspective.
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Originally Posted by Henri McPhee View Post
The appeasement policy of Chamberlain was right judgement from a military perspective.
No. Especially from that perspective.
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Old 20th December 2017, 02:49 AM   #366
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Americans seem to think that negotiations are appeasement. It's the utmost folly when nuclear weapons are involved, even though force may have to be used.

Jaw Jaw is better than War War as Churchill once said.

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Old 14th January 2018, 01:48 AM   #367
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Politicians who supported the policy of appeasement did so because they felt Germany had been unfairly treated after WW1. For instance, the Germans surrendered in 1918 after agreeing to Wilson's 14 Points. The British had a starvation blockade in place and refused to lift it until Germany signed the Versailles Treaty making that country solely responsible for causing WW1. This starvation blockade caused 900 000 civilian deaths -
https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=10005
Also if you look at the details on disarmament in the Versailles Treaty all the countries involved were supposed to disarm. Only Germany did. When the other countries (Britain, France, Belgium etc) refused to disarm Hitler ordered the rearming of his country -
https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7937
The millions of deaths in WW1 were another reason for appeasement. A series of negotiated agreements and a peaceful revision of the Versailles Treaty were preferable to another bloodbath -
https://wearswar.wordpress.com/2017/...an-propaganda/
https://wearswar.wordpress.com/2017/...new-world-war/
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Originally Posted by Mondial View Post
Politicians who supported the policy of appeasement did so because they felt Germany had been unfairly treated after WW1. For instance, the Germans surrendered in 1918 after agreeing to Wilson's 14 Points.
Twisting history? Germany surrendered on 11 November 1918 because collapse of the front was imminent. In those circumstances, Ludendorff pressed Hindenburg and the Kaiser to accept whatever terms, had two MPs sent to Compičgne to sign and later developed the Stab-in-the-Back legend that it was those dastardly socialists who had undermined the war effort.

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The British had a starvation blockade in place and refused to lift it until Germany signed the Versailles Treaty making that country solely responsible for causing WW1. This starvation blockade caused 900 000 civilian deaths
Of course, the British blockade was only naval in nature. I'm not going to debate the numbers, but interestingly, the Hague Conventions on War allow a blockade only when it's effective, so the higher number of deaths you cite, the more you argue for its legality. And the British allowed food to be imported from January 1919 on.

And the blockade had nothing to do with the so-called "War Guilt Clause", which was not a guilt clause at all, but only meant to underpin German legal responsibility to pay reparations. The same clause existed in the other Paris suburbs treaties with the other Central Powers, and none of them bitched about that.

And let's stop bitching about the height of the German reparations. Germany paid only about 20bn Goldmarks until it stopped paying in 1931, and the payments amounted only to about 2% of the national income. By comparison, the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt required France to pay 5bn Goldfrancs within 4 years on a national income of 22bn Goldfrancs (link).
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Old 14th January 2018, 09:08 AM   #369
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Germany had a blockade on the UK as well. U-Boats nearly brought Britain to starvation.
Britain relied on sea routes for supply. Germany has a much longer land border than a sea coast. It didn't rely on shipping in food entirely.


Conveniently forgotten by Mondial. There was a war on.

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Old 14th January 2018, 10:08 AM   #370
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Politicians who supported the policy of appeasement did so because they felt Germany had been unfairly treated after WW1. For instance, the Germans surrendered in 1918 after agreeing to Wilson's 14 Points.
In a way I agree that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair and there were economists like Keynes who said so at the time. The trouble was that the political situation in the world became very complex during the 1930s. There were quite a few people in high places like the Right club in the UK, including a descendent of the Duke of Wellington who were sympathetic to Hitler and Japan, and Nazis were not unknown in America. The British fascist Oswald Mosley was praised to high heaven in the British Press by the Times and Daily Mail and even the Guardian, or Manchester Guardian as it then was.

Just sticking to the British Royal family, the Duke of Windsor was put under surveillance and his telephone tapped by a detective from Scotland Yard secret political police called Albert Canning and the Duke was overheard telling Americans not to enter the war because it was now too late. Churchill with his 'with what' strategy supported the Duke of Windsor and Lloyd George in his later years was quite sympathetic to Hitler. I don't know if the Duke of Kent was mixed up in all this but I wouldn't be surprised.

Chamberlain gets unfairly blamed for appeasement, but he was the one who got The RAF and radar organised and the country prepared for war and conscription introduced.

King George V1 never wanted to be king and he was later described by the comedian Michael Bentine as a damn good king.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10306121.html
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Well, if comedian Michael Bentine thinks he was a good king that settles it.
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King George V1
Are you talking about a British king or a German weapon?
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Old 15th January 2018, 02:57 AM   #373
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Are you talking about a British king or a German weapon?
Well.
There used to be a buzz that the king had some kind of speech impediment. There was even a suspicion that he bombed himself before each speech, which would indeed explain his performances.
Luckily he had a teacher, who knew how to doodle the text in a way the king could pronounce better.
This speech made a real impact.

I know this because I've seen this documentary once.
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Well.
There used to be a buzz that the king had some kind of speech impediment. There was even a suspicion that he bombed himself before each speech, which would indeed explain his performances.
Luckily he had a teacher, who knew how to doodle the text in a way the king could pronounce better.
This speech made a real impact.

I know this because I've seen this documentary once.
I'd nominate this, but it would violate rule 12.

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Old 16th January 2018, 05:09 AM   #375
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The millions of deaths in WW1 were another reason for appeasement. A series of negotiated agreements and a peaceful revision of the Versailles Treaty were preferable to another bloodbath -
There is a bit about this in the book Modern Money and Unemployment published in 1964 by Isidore Ostrer:

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Economic conditions create war. The seed of the growth of Hitler was definitely planted in the lunatic currency arrangements fixed after the 1914-18 war.
I remember the son of the Marquis of Bath once saying on TV that his father was dangerously right wing. There were people in Britain and America who wanted to stay out of the war and not give a guarantee to Poland and that did not include Chamberlain.
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Old 16th January 2018, 08:00 AM   #376
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Originally Posted by Henri McPhee View Post
There is a bit about this in the book Modern Money and Unemployment published in 1964 by Isidore Ostrer:



I remember the son of the Marquis of Bath once saying on TV that his father was dangerously right wing. There were people in Britain and America who wanted to stay out of the war and not give a guarantee to Poland and that did not include Chamberlain.

Henri go read about the The Hossbach Conference which met on November 5th 1937.
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Henri go read about the The Hossbach Conference which met on November 5th 1937.
Our secret service were well aware of Hitler's intentions from at least 1934 and that information would have been conveyed to Chamberlain though secrecy would have been preserved. That doesn't mean that Chamberlain should have gone rushing off to war with outdated RAF planes and a Churchill 'with what' strategy. That could have resulted in defeat and it was touch and go in 1940. Australia and Canada and New Zealand and South Africa and Rhodesia were opposed to war in 1938 and America was none too keen to get involved at the time. A politician who has to introduce conscription can't do so without public support Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Our secret service were well aware of Hitler's intentions from at least 1934 and that information would have been conveyed to Chamberlain though secrecy would have been preserved. That doesn't mean that Chamberlain should have gone rushing off to war with outdated RAF planes and a Churchill 'with what' strategy. That could have resulted in defeat and it was touch and go in 1940. Australia and Canada and New Zealand and South Africa and Rhodesia were opposed to war in 1938 and America was none too keen to get involved at the time. A politician who has to introduce conscription can't do so without public support Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk...rence-of-1937/
Secret service? lol, what did they do go to the book store and buy Mein Kampf? He kinda outlined his overall plan in MK and then published it.
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Secret service? lol, what did they do go to the book store and buy Mein Kampf? He kinda outlined his overall plan in MK and then published it.
I'm getting a feeling of deja vu over this conversation.
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I'm getting a feeling of deja vu over this conversation.
This is what I wrote about this matter last May on this forum and it's true. Winterbotham of Air Intelligence had conversations with top Nazis and generals in 1934 and he was not the only British spy around:


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This is what F.W Winterbotham wrote in his book about the invasion of Russia by Hitler. I think it's true and not embellished:

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From Eric Koch, who showed me all over the great concrete preparations in East Prussia for Operation Otto, I found out the approximate date of the operation against all Russia..........

Ever since I had joined the Secret Service in 1929 I had realized that amongst those who trod the carpeted corridors of power in Whitehall it was fashionable to smile in tolerant disbelief at anything the Secret Service told them. It was frustrating to see the information on German rearmament being quietly ignored.. As my efforts with Hitler and company had had the full backing of Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair (Quex to his friends, "C" to the establishment, to me the Chief), he complained to the Prime Minister when he saw no use was being made of my knowledge. In 1935 I was finally summoned to appear before a Cabinet Committee to substantiate my reports. They were accepted by the committee. When Baldwin retired, Lord Swinton took over as Air Minister from Lord Londonderry, and I got the help and backing I wanted...........

After thirty years of somewhat smug propaganda on the subject of Nazi Fascism, it is difficult to tell people now how very nearly it never happened. How those of us who knew the might of the German war machine, and the accurate facts of our fight for existence, wondered at the blind optimism of the Army Staff, and of Winston Churchill himself, that we could hold the Germans in France.

It took the fall of France and great pressure from the Air Staff to convince him that things had changed since World War 1. It was at this critical moment that the greatest Intelligence triumph of all time came to our rescue, a secret that was kept throughout the war and after.

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I'm getting a feeling of deja vu over this conversation.
Yes now that you mentioned it their is a sniff of sameness in the air.
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There was some silly journalist on the Press Review on Sky TV a few days ago saying that the leader of the British UKIP political party is the worst leader since Chamberlain. I think Chamberlain was a very clever man, and a man of wide and practical experience. He gets unfairly blamed for appeasement by ignoramus journalists and Churchill historians. He was no pacifist.
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There was some silly journalist on the Press Review on Sky TV a few days ago saying that the leader of the British UKIP political party is the worst leader since Chamberlain. I think Chamberlain was a very clever man, and a man of wide and practical experience. He gets unfairly blamed for appeasement by ignoramus journalists and Churchill historians. He was no pacifist.
Nor did he have romantic entanglements with 25 year old models.
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Nor did he have romantic entanglements with 25 year old models.
That we know of.

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There was some silly journalist on the Press Review on Sky TV a few days ago saying that the leader of the British UKIP political party is the worst leader since Chamberlain. I think Chamberlain was a very clever man, and a man of wide and practical experience. He gets unfairly blamed for appeasement by ignoramus journalists and Churchill historians. He was no pacifist.
That's why he throw us to Nazi Germany. Because he was no pacifist. Well, that might make twisted sense. He wanted massive world war, so he throw one of countries with well developed military industry and healthy economic base to Germany, so they had some chance at war...
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The Czechs would have lasted about three weeks, like Poland. Then what and with what? Chamberlain had right judgment, even if you call it appeasement.
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The Czechs would have lasted about three weeks, like Poland. Then what and with what? Chamberlain had right judgment, even if you call it appeasement.
We had mutual defense treaty with both France and Britain. (Also with Soviet union)

You turned your back on us. You betrayed us. And as a consequence and reward you caused and got biggest war so far! You got what you wanted to prevent. You gave Hitler what he wanted and thus enabled his war of conquest. Without Czechoslovakian republic Hitler would not be able to launch it. We were final piece he had to have for his war.

Chamberlain had one of the worst judgements ever!

In short, you are WRONG!

ETA: And it is questionable if we would really fall in 5 weeks. And even if so, it would deplete resources of Germany to severe extent. They would have to destroy what they wanted (factories) And resistance would be far more effective because registry of population would be of no use anymore.
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The Czechs would have lasted about three weeks, like Poland. Then what and with what? Chamberlain had right judgment, even if you call it appeasement.
How would it have been like the Poles? The Czechs had much better natural defences, the Panzer divisions barely existed, the Luftwaffe was far weaker and there was no Molotov-Ribentropp Pact so Germany would have struggled for resources to keep their war machine running. Oh and in an invasion much of that Czech equipment and industrial capacity that was massively important to Germany in the build up to the invasion of Poland would have been destroyed so any offence in the west would have been far weaker.

The time bought by Munich may have benefited the UK, but it may have benefited Nazi Germany far more.
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... and there was no Molotov-Ribentropp Pact ...
Excellent point. The USSR had an alliance with Czechoslovakia, and even if she had not gone to war with Germany on account of it, she would not have helped Germany as she did in the destruction of Poland, a common enemy of Germany and Russia.

It is often argued that the Nazi Soviet Pact made WW2 possible, and it has been condemned on that account. If so, then the friendly relations between CS and the USSR would have made a general war impossible for Germany to contemplate. And would have made a local war against CS extremely expensive for Hitler both in resources and in diplomatic credit. Further aggressive military adventures by him might well have been prevented or deterred.

Czech tanks were so good, by the way, that Hitler used trophy ones - he never had to fight them in Czechoslovakia - in his campaign against France the following May.

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Thanks to both of you for providing better articulation of what I tried to say.
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Excellent point. The USSR had an alliance with Czechoslovakia, and even if she had not gone to war with Germany on account of it, she would not have helped Germany as she did in the destruction of Poland, a common enemy of Germany and Russia.

It is often argued that the Nazi Soviet Pact made WW2 possible, and it has been condemned on that account. If so, then the friendly relations between CS and the USSR would have made a general war impossible for Germany to contemplate. And would have made a local war against CS extremely expensive for Hitler both in resources and in diplomatic credit. Further aggressive military adventures by him might well have been prevented or deterred.
It should also be noted that Stalin was mightily pissed off by Munich. The UK and France had sold out his ally and he wasn't even invited at the table. That also contributed to his decision to break down talks with the UK and France and go for the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

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Czech tanks were so good, by the way, that Hitler used trophy ones - he never had to fight them in Czechoslovakia - in his campaign against France the following May.
The Czech 37t tanks also formed the core of the German Panzer divisions in the Polish campaign.
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They chassis and running gear were used to build the Hetzers, my favourite German armour.
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To say nothing of the design of the Bren gun - used by the British Army up to the Falklands
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Old 4th February 2018, 10:18 AM   #394
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How would it have been like the Poles? The Czechs had much better natural defences, the Panzer divisions barely existed, the Luftwaffe was far weaker and there was no Molotov-Ribentropp Pact so Germany would have struggled for resources to keep their war machine running. Oh and in an invasion much of that Czech equipment and industrial capacity that was massively important to Germany in the build up to the invasion of Poland would have been destroyed so any offence in the west would have been far weaker.

The time bought by Munich may have benefited the UK, but it may have benefited Nazi Germany far more.
There was nothing stopping the Czechs from going to war with Germany on their own in 1938 except that Hitler threatened the Czech prime minister at the time with bombing Prague:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...r_seventy.html
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Old 4th February 2018, 10:32 AM   #395
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Originally Posted by Henri McPhee View Post
There was nothing stopping the Czechs from going to war with Germany on their own in 1938 except that Hitler threatened the Czech prime minister at the time with bombing Prague:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...r_seventy.html
Which has nothing to do with what you claimed earlier. Could you please address all/any of the points raised about the actual strategic situation that contradict your claim that the Czech republic would have lasted three weeks and Munich was the right decision? Or can we expect yet more silence before you dredge up some non-sequitur from a 60 year old book?
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Originally Posted by Henri McPhee View Post
There was nothing stopping the Czechs from going to war with Germany on their own in 1938 except that Hitler threatened the Czech prime minister at the time with bombing Prague:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...r_seventy.html
Bit hard to fight when your supposed allies threaten you for "threatening peace".
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Bit hard to fight when your supposed allies threaten you for "threatening peace".
Yes, it definitely was an incident to be ashamed of. And it made Nazi Germany stronger
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How would it have been like the Poles? The Czechs had much better natural defences, the Panzer divisions barely existed, the Luftwaffe was far weaker...
Just the bolded bit, but in relation to everyone else the Luftwaffe was pretty much at its peak. Remember, that's in relation. Britain and France had next to nothing that could go up against the 109, for example.

In essence, the Luftwaffe were ahead of the curve, though they would start to lose ground by 1940.
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Also, not sure how much credence to give this, but I have read that many German officers at the time hoped for a war over Czechoslovakia as it would be so difficult and bloody that they would be able to act against the regime due to its unpopularity. When it went the smooth way of all Hitler's previous adventures they felt they had lost a last chance to try and resist.
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I know it has been said in the past that German officers would have opposed Hitler if an invasion of the Czechs happened. It's just you need to be in touch with reality about all that. Nobody was stopping those German officers, least of all Chamberlain, if that's what they wanted to do. Later on officers from German military intelligence, like Admiral Canaris and Colonel Oster, were in touch with MI6, and there were bomb plots against Hitler, none of them successful.

It's also sad for the Czechs, and I agree to the benefit of German military strength that Britain was in no condition to go to war in 1938. It would have ended in disaster. That is not Chamberlain's fault.

There is a bit about all this in an internet article:

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Some historians, for example John Charmley, believe that rather than being negligent, Chamberlain was justified in appeasing Hitler in the Munich Conference. Many historians argue that the year that was gained helped Britain build up her army. Chamberlain himself said that he would not contemplate such a guarantee ‘unless we had reasonable prospect of being able to beat her [Germany] to her knees in a reasonable time, and of that I see no sign.’ In other words, Chamberlain did not want to enter into a war with Germany unless they did have a large enough military to do this.

David Dilks, one of the leading revisionists, has been at the forefront of the historical revisionism of Chamberlain. According to Dilks, ‘the buying of time remained a strong element in British foreign policy, as it had been for several years…and to accelerate British rearmament, the spending upon which was moving swiftly forward in 1938 and 1939 and which far exceeded any expenditure upon arms ever undertaken in peace time’.
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