Comments by "AFGuidesHD" (@AFGuidesHD) on "TIKhistory" channel.

@КонстантинКругляков-г1у "none of the slavic people would exist". Yeah just like no native Americans exist today. Oh wait, they do and some are even thankful for the victory of Europeans over them lol. Even if the claims that the Germans wanted to "murder all the slavs" and by "slavs" we mean Russians. I doubt the reality would be any different to that of the native Americans i.e. eventually placed into small territories of their own.
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21:41 - fearmongering, a classic part of warmongering. Had Germany actually defeated Britain, more likely they would have sought peace with America, though for economic reasons America would prefer to fight this new autarkic power, for the economies of Germany and America were mostly the same being industrial exporters. America wanted an export market. I don't see capitalist America willingly turn itself into an autarkic power.
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@nonomnismoriar9051 No because it was entirely a British-German affair.
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@nonomnismoriar9051 how was it an American affair ?
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@nonomnismoriar9051 Except Germany didn't want to take over Europe by force, it was Britain who wanted to prevent a peaceful German hegemony by force. However Germany resorted to force in order to get back Danzig which they failed to do so through diplomatic means in the back drop of a British encirclement attempt.
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@nonomnismoriar9051 > Hitler had planned to conquer Lebensraum in the East since the 1920's. Oh yes, Hitler had long thought of a war against the commies to occur at some point, in the 1930s he hoped for a German-Polish war against the Soviet Union, likely occurring over Ukrainian independence. But "taking over Europe" in that sense is totally different. Read telegram 762.00/240 in "documents on US foreign policy", you can find it through google, unfortunately I can't link as they get blocked on YouTube. > You're sounding very suspiciously like a Nazi sympathizer now. Setting the historical record straight usually is "nazi sympathy" because the facts have been omitted from the mainstream narrative, there's a reason why the German-Polish talks of 1938-39 are never mentioned, why Britain's encirclement in 1939 is never mentioned, why even the British guarantee to Poland is usually glossed over as a "final warning to hitler who wants to take over the world". Because it changes the narrative completely from "evil germany taking over the world" to an Anglo-German rivalry for influence in Europe. I highly recommend "March 1939: The British Guarantee to Poland" for a historical analysis on British policy at the time.
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@nonomnismoriar9051 Because Danzig was a German city with like 98% German population, Hitler was willing to relinquish the Corridor if Poland allied with Germany against the commies. As we all know it didn't happen for whatever reason, though it's interesting to think what if Poland did give back Danzig and didn't view Danzig as some holy site. Our whole perception of "Hitler's war to take over europe" would be changed, quite likely because there wouldn't be one.
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@nonomnismoriar9051 Yes. I somehow doubt that Hitler would genocide his allies.
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@nonomnismoriar9051 >July 1941 Yes, Hitler played alot of politics in his speeches, if Poland was Germany's ally then no doubt he would be talking highly of them. read this - https://www.jstor.org/stable/25776202?seq=1
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@bolivar2153 Documents on British Foreign Policy and Documents on German Foreign Policy
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@janys6502 completely different situations my dude
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@janys6502 I literally gave you a good quote on that. And there's many telegrams in "documents on british foreign policy", have a read through them, very interesting stuff.
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It does seem that way. Had Hitler really wanted war, and genuinely wanted to make Poland 'the aggressor' under such conditions. He would have ordered Forster to go ahead with the disarmament of Polish 'customs officers' in early August. What on earth am I talking about you ask ? Obviously something Anglo-American historians have kept out of their stories, namely the Polish Ultimatum to Danzig of August 4th. The most alarming part of the Ultimatum: "I do not doubt that you, Mr. President of the Senate, have no doubts that such an infringement of the fundamental rights of Poland would under no pretext be tolerated by the Polish Government. Should the above-mentioned abuses take place the Polish Government will retaliate without delay against the Free City." This of course preceding Marshall Rydz-Smigly's speech of 6th August stating "Guns, which stand guard over Poland's honor, are trained on Danzig. If the Danzig authorities intend to face Poland with a fait accompli these guns will roar." and as reported by the Daily Mirror on 7th August "After Rydz-Smigly's speech yesterday, thousands of Poles joined in, shouting 'we demand Danzig'". There is a copy of the Ultimatum from Danzig, sent to the German foreign office, that also states that Forster/ Danzig would seek advice from the Fuhrer on what to do. Given that Roger Makins reported on 14th August "The Poles had threatened severe economic reprisals and were privately making threats of military action. Beck thought that Danzig had climbed down and published his success in the press." it would seem that the Fuhrer's orders were to 'back down' rather than facilitate a possible Polish attack on Danzig.
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@TheImperatorKnight Have you read Simon Newman's 'March 1939 the British Guarantee to Poland' ?
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@augnkn93043 The point is that you can't on the one hand say Britain was morally right to "defend" Poland from "German aggression" and then on the other turn a blind eye to the Russian invasion for "practical geopolitical reasons", especially so as Britain gave Poland to the Soviets in 1945 anyway, which utterly defeats the whole "we defended Polish independence" schtick. WW2 was such a disaster for Britain, which is why it's so hard for us to come to terms with what we did. So it is much easier to do, as TIK does in this video, to go in knots and circles to rationalize how actually it was Germany that declared war on Britain. As I mention, even when we pretend that Germany was this uniquely rogue power that hated Poles and had long planned for war with them, it is still the Chamberlain government making a sovereign decision to make war on Germany. hint: its not true, because ironically one of Hitler's biggest criticisms from Germans in 1939 was that he was too weak on the Poles, he admired Pilsudski too much, and saw in Poland a state that had a common enemy - Russia. Britain knew of this, and knew that Germany and Poland were having negotiations on solving their outstanding issues. Leading Chamberlain to make the guarantee on 31st March. As is recorded on 30th March in a Cabinet meeting "The Prime Minister said that he was somewhat uneasy at the fact that our Ambassador in Warsaw could obtain no information as to the progress of the negotiations between Germany and Poland. One possible, but very distasteful, explanation of this was that Polish negotiators were, in fact, giving way to Germany."
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Not really Nation: a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
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The Brits were indeed angry at Russia 'betraying' the British peace front policy, however the Brits were the ones who started the policy to begin with, so really they were angry at themselves.
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"He thought he would win" I mean that's literally why anyone starts a war, Chamberlain thought he could win because he was told the German economy was close to collapse and that the Generals would overthrow Hitler if Britain declared war on Germany, we all saw how that went.
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what do you mean? Did Home have any diaries or something ?
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Indeed, declaring war on Germany after the Peace Front collapsed on August 24th was a total disaster. But I can assume Chamberlain thought that not declaring war and thus totally embarrassing Britain's 'guarantees' would be equally disastrous. So Chamberlain took the easy way out and declared war anyway, hoping things would somehow not go as they did in 1940.
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@jamessnee7171 No I know full well along with anyone who watches a TIK video that the German army wasn't fully equipped with jet aircraft and assault rifles (obviously). But the argument is that they had better technology. However I realize I mostly think in terms of the cutting edge futuristic technology without taking much into account of widely used technology such as Piston aircraft or tanks that were widely used.
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