Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Chamberlain's peace deal with Hitler" video.

  1. The thing about the Sudetenland crisis is it could have led to Hitler's defeat if Chamberlain had stayed out of it entirely. The German people weren't on board for war and Hitler's generals were prepared to overthrow the Führer, expecting the Czechs, who had a decent military, to put up stubborn resistance. If the war went badly they felt the public would have been on board or at least stayed largely neutral during a coup. They communicated as much to British intelligence, telling them to ignore Mussolini's call for a summit. But Chamberlain had it in his head that he could prevent war and he truly believed if Hitler was able to restore the German border to what it was prior to WWI that he would be placated, at least long enough for Britain and France to arm up properly. For his part, Hitler was pissed when Mussolini recommended a peace conference. He was ready to go to war and believed the Sudetenland Germans would rise up and help him defeat the Czechs. The real shame of it is, if they could have put their differences aside, and if they would have read the tea-leaves correctly, the Czechs and Poles could have entered into an alliance, forcing Hitler to fight a two front war right off the bat. That would have given the generals all the impetus they needed to stage their coup. Unfortunately, after Munich, Hitler's popularity was through the roof and the generals willing to stage a coup lost their heart. We all know what happened next. One of history's great what if's I suppose.
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