COUNTERFACTUAL YESSSSS
It's my favourite branch of history.

There were plenty of people pissed off at the Treaty of Versailles. The collapse of the Weimar Republic also left a space open for radical parties, like the National Socialists. If it wasn't Hitler, it might have been someone else. But someone who might have liked the Jews more, or someone who was a REAL socialist.
I argued in an exam that you COULD say Maria Theresa of Austria ruined the French Monarchy. WOO.

The question was "Is any interpretation of History valid?"


Magnificent about myself? I was blue when I was born.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 19:50, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Seems about right.

I think Hitler's character may have had something to do with it as well. Also, his foreign minister Von Ribbentrop was a bit of an idiot who managed to convince Hitler that if Germany were to invade Poland, England would join on the side of the Germans.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 20:11, Reply)

Your thinking of "mad eyes" Hess
Von Ribbentrop skated the thin ice of genius and shiteness; mostly shiteness. His jewel in the crown lay with the molotov-ribbentrop pact; which allowed the Germans to march into Poland in the first instance without fearing a two front campaign,as the action inevitably led to a declaration of war from Britain and France due to the treaties in place.
As ambassador to Britain leading up to the war he was generally autistic and created a number of enemies leading to his anglophobia; if anything he spent a large amount of his time turning the anti communist Anti-Comintern Pact against Britain. /Fact Fans
He also didn't like Jews whcih caught up with him in the end in that there Nuremburg.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 20:52, Reply)

From what I remember, he was also a caricature of a typical Nazi.
He would often exaggerate his persona and try to put on a big front to impress people.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 21:22, Reply)