Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "The Hossbach Memorandum PROVES Hitler Wanted to Wage a War of Aggression" video.

It should be said that not all Nazi writers reject The Hossbach Memorandum. David Irving accepts it and gives an interesting brief account of it in pages 62 - 65 of, The War Path (1978) noting that French Intelligence was well informed about the meeting.
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@harshbansal7982 It was Allied Policy to regard Austria as Conquered by The Nazis. You can't blame the Austrians for going along.
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@jimtaylor294 Bismarck really didn't want to quarrel with Russia, and that meant keeping out of The Danube (and The Balkans)
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And then there was the religion problem. A Gross Deutsch solution so have meant a Catholic majority in the new federation. Neither Bismarck nor The National Liberals wanted that.
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@jimtaylor294 Klein Deutsch = Protestant majority. Gross Deutsch = Catholic majority.
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@jimtaylor294 Bismarck designated the Catholics enemies of his new Reich, and persecuted them for a decade with the enthusiastic assistance of the National Liberals.
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He's a most engaging writer. I believe he modelled his aphoristic style on Albert Sorel, the historian of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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We don't have a reliable text, but in general terms we know how the meeting went, Hitler rambling on, and The War Ministry interpreting his maunderings as a brief to plan an attack on Czechoslovakia.
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Hmm. I don't think the British failed to realise. They didn't want Hitler to conquer The USSR, or anywhere else in Europe.
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@jimtaylor294 I would say this lack of "commonality" is simply another way of saying that the Austrians were Catholics, which meant that Bismarck and the National Liberals didn't want them in their new Reich.
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The career of Beust is interesting. A Saxon Protestant but not a National Liberal he became the first prime minister of the new Dual Monarchy, a symbolic declaration by Franz Josef that Austria did not want to be severed from Germany.
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@jimtaylor294 We'll have to agree to disagree here. I see you as down playing the Importance of confessional conflict in typical "post Christian" fashion. I will concede that permitting the annexation of Catholic Alsace - Lorraine was a blunder by Bismarck if he wanted the new Reich to be as Protestant as possible.
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The secret is finally revealed. The Death Maginot Line was the ultimate secret weapon.
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@seanadler918 The Nazis couldn't have an alliance with both Japan and The Soviet Union. It was when they gave up on The Japanese (late July) that they began serious approaches to The Soviets.
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The Colonel Agreed. I don't think anyone doubts that the text we have gives a generally accurate account of what Hitler said but the participants were never given an opportunity to authenticate or query its accuracy (with the exception of Hitler himself, who declined to do so).
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@caryblack5985 Also Julius Fisher, Transnistria, The Forgotten Cemetery (1970). It's so little noticed it might be called, The Forgotten Book.
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@davethompson3326 It's sad that Sorel is so little known in England. There's an interesting discussion of him in, Napoleon, For and Against, by the honorary Englishman Pieter Geyl.
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