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

  1.  @toms9864  >detailing how he wanted to invade Slavic countries? Funny since he would then ally and work with Slav countries such as Croatia and Slovakia and before the British guarantee to Poland wanted to ally with Poland.
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  2.  @toms9864  Soviet union supported communist insurgents in Yugoslavia and violated the pact in a few other ways.
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  3.  @alexandredelneste270  > if Poles give away the corridor except Hitler had offered to guarantee the corridor in his earlier offers.
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  4.  @alexandredelneste270  Yes, now what about his offers from october 1938-april 1939 where he offered to guarantee polish rights in danzig and the polish corridor ?
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  5.  @zupnanazwa  TIK also used alot of "western" historians like Kershaw and Overy though.
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  6.  @coachhannah2403  regarding what ?
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  7.  @Muskotron  Too bad we pick and choose which groups to save hmm ? cough Indians cough Boers cough Americans cough Palestinians etc. The whole "we started ww2 to save x ethnicity" is straight up post war propaganda. It wasn't even a thing until the 80s lol.
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  8. They're only absurd if you're ignorant or 'can't think critically', as a certain crowd would say. I highly recommend a read of Simon Newman's "march 1939 the British guarantee to poland" as well as the primary sources of diplomatic communications in "documents on british foreign policy" and "documents on german foreign policy"
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  9.  @Saeronor  yeah like i said i don't think their justification for war would be much different than that given on 3rd september to the british
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  10.  @Saeronor  I meant according to Germany and also what actually happen i.e. polish mobilization on 30th,. Henderson was probably told by Goering or someone of the sort.
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  11.  @Saeronor  yeah like i said their reasoning would probably not be much difference i.e. polish intransigence and its aggression against germans
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  12.  @alexandredelneste270  The Poles also mobilized multiple times throughout 1939, I believe the Wehrmacht was only partially mobilized.
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  13. Yes its a rather large flaw in the moralistic "Germany started WW2" narrative. 'Germany started WW2 because it invaded Poland' 'Britain was just trying to defend Poland'. So one asks 'why then didn't they declare war on the USSR', which of course the mask slips right off. 'It wasn't convenient, strategic considerations etc.'. Oh, so the war against Germany was indeed strategic considerations. As the Cabinet and Foreign Policy Committee meetings of March 1939 indeed show. To quote Roger Makins of the British Foreign Office: "A German-Polish deal would in the long run be highly disadvantageous to us. It would defeat the policy of forming a bloc against Germany".
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  14. ​ @officeofpeaceinformation5094  ​ By books I also mean first hand evidence as documented in "documents on british foreign policy, documents on german foreign policy" etc. published by the british government in the 50s. For example the British consul General in Danzig writes on the 4th September "it still seems in retrospect that the detente might have been achieved had it not been for the actions of the Polish government in sending what amounted to an ultimatum to the Danzig senate on the night of 4th August." There seems to be few diplomats at the time who were blaming anyone other than Poland when you read these telegrams, which also mention many events regardless how minor that are never mentioned in modern western propaganda films such as "WW2 in color". By books I mean: "March 1939: The British Guarantee to Poland" by Simon Newman "Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front" by Anita Prazmowska "The Dark Heart of [censored] Europe" by Martin Winstone "German Diplomatic Relations 1871-1945: The Wilhelmstrasse And the Formulation Of Foreign Policy" by William Young "Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War" by Anita Promowska "Germany, Poland, and the Danzig Question" by Rashid A Holloway among others I read at my University Library
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  15. Except categories exist for everything. With the logic "nations are stupid", then who is to say "there's only one race, the human race" is not stupid and exclusionary ?
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  16.  @robertmeunier9915  read again.
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  17.  @robertmeunier9915  John Mersheimer certainly argues that. "why didn't continue to occupy Poland after freeing Danzig?" Same reason why the allies didn't just end their war when they reached German 1933 borders. Real life doesn't work like that.
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  18.  @robertmeunier9915  "They were trying to end a German threat, which meant making Germany surrender." Precisely. I'm not a German so I don't have such a "belief system" but I have no doubt that if Cornwall was in a similar position to Danzig, vast majority of Brits would also support relieving French economic pressure and securing Cornwall from the French. It's just funny to me how Danzig is just never mentioned in popular histories of how WW2 broke out.
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  19.  @michaelmalinovsky9499  How is it at all disingenuous ? If a business does something the government doesn't like then it will stop it. It's quite that simple. It is the same for every government.
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  20.  @michaelmalinovsky9499  So its only private property when the government is capitalist ?
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  21.  @danieldavidisson9906  "Fascism is the form the capitalist state adopts in crisis, to smash unions," This is unfiltered Commie propaganda though lmao.
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  22. "It still seems to me that the detente might have been achieved had it not been for the actions of the Polish government in sending what amounted to an ultimatum on the night of August 4th." - Gerald Shepard, 4th September. "Frankly, Chamberlain is more worried about getting the Poles to be reasonable than the Germans. He feels there is a great body of public opinion in England headed probably by Eden and Churchill who will suggest to the Poles that they give up nothing and that they have Hitler on the run. This, of course, will mean war" - Joseph Kennedy, 30th August. "After Rydz-Smigly's speech yesterday, thousands of Poles joined in, shouting 'we demand Danzig'" - Daily Mirror, 7th August "The Polish Commissioner to Danzig telephoned the President of the Senate at 1 o'clock in the morning, and half an hour later sent him an ultimatum. That same morning he had risked a panic by sending away women and children, and at the same time the polish press had talked of bombing Danzig." - Gerald Shepard, recounting the events of August 4th. "In view of indications of increasing Polish intransigence since conclusion of the Anglo-Polish guarantee agreement..." - Joseph Kennedy, 22nd April. "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." - Cabinet Meeting, 30th March. "War, and war now with a near eastern front. Without war the desired results may never be achieved." - Noel Mason-MacFarlane, 28th March. "Halifax felt that the inevitability of war sooner or later should be met right now" - Joseph Kennedy, 24th March. "We should attack Germany, not in order to save a particular victim, but in order to pull down the bully" - Neville Chamberlain, 20th March. There's an incredible story to be told when you go through the primary sources in "documents on british foreign policy" yet incredibly these are never mentioned by mainstream popular historians.
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  23. Only if your state is structured around plutocracy and the supremacy of the individual over the common volk. Not so much if you have an autarkic authautarian state which is what H man sought to create.
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  24.  @Saeronor  "Prague gave back" lmao, similar to how Prague invited the German army in March 1939 ?
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  25. how do you propose america defeat germany without britain or russia? bearing in mind that d-day launched from britain against a heavily worn down Wehrmacht nearly failed as it is.
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  26. yes there are a ridiculous amounts of variables in such simple statements lol. Though I guess with such simple statements we are perhaps saying Germany vs soviet union in 1939 with both soviet union and germany allowed to battle in polish territory ? xD
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  27. Possibly. If the oil field in the Netherlands was discovered then it changes Hitler's strategies. He would have supported Moscow, he wouldn't have been as desperate to get the oil, thus not splitting Army Group South. So yeah, pretty big impact really.
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  28.  @nukclear2741  how would you notice that ?
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  29.  @meshzzizk  perhaps you should have begun your quotation with "Adam" then. You'd know this if you could write properly.
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  30.  @meshzzizk  No we don't understand, as I said previously. If you were quoting the video you should have begun your quote at Adams. Christ, look I'll do it myself: Lol "Adam tooze and Richard evans say hitler was a bourgeois liberal", what the hell are you talking about
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  31.  @Bingo_Bango_  "and found literally no result." You say this but then literally quote it in the next sentence lol
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  32. "We should attack Germany, not in order to save a particular victim, but in order to pull down the bully" - Neville Chamberlain, 20th March. [1] "England is advising France that they should both go to war regardless of Poland." - Joseph Kennedy, 22nd March. "Beck stated that Poland had no intention of marching unless Poland were attacked." - Anthony Biddle Jr., 23rd March "Halifax felt that the inevitability of war sooner or later should be met right now" - Joseph Kennedy, 24th March. "War, and war now with a near eastern front. Without war the desired results may never be achieved." - Noel Mason-MacFarlane, 28th March. "The Foreign Secretary said that it was clear that if action was to be undertaken in circumstances at all favourable to us, or if the threat of action was to be an effective deterrent, Germany must be faced with war on two fronts simultaneously. Poland was therefore key to the situation." - Cabinet Meeting, 29th March [1] "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." - Cabinet Meeting, 30th March. [1] "No doubt it would be impossible to prevent Poland from being overrun. The Chiefs of Staff, indeed, thought that Poland would likely be overrun by Germany within two or three months." - Cabinet Meeting, 30th March. [1] "I gather Mason-MacFarlane will approve our action today." - Alexander Cadogan, 31st March. The information is there. Its just Anglophile historians tend to totally ignore it. I wonder why ?
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  33.  @mrorlov2706  those 3 times they were allied with Berlin though.
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  34. yes which is why Poland wanted for a mostly peaceful war against Germany at that time
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  35. If you're interested then I highly recommend a read of Simon Newman's "March 1939 the british guarantee to poland" and then read the primary evidence in "documents on british foreign policy" and "documents on german foreign policy". "the topic is complicated" Indeed but mainstream victor's history portray it as very simplistic. They never mention the German-Polish negotiations that there were before 31st March 1939, they never mention the Polish ultimatum to Danzig of August 4th or the discussions that Chamberlain and Halifax had in March 1939. It is merely "one day Germany invaded Poland and Britain promised to defend them".
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  36.  @pandaprewmaster325  "One thing I know for sure germany being a superpower most likely threatens British" Yet I don't see how, when you go through "documents on German foreign policy" in every private conversation Hitler has with diplomats and other leaders [1], he only talks about being allies and friends with the british empire, there is literally no reason for Germany to ever fight Britain. Germany is never going to fight Britain over India, unlike how Britain wants to fight over Danzig. Then Alexander Cadogan wrote a white paper essentially saying "yeah, let Germany have eastern Europe, this would even benefit us, if Germany builds up eastern Europe then we can make more money as well through trade", and we still have the rest of the world to trade with. [1] such as Series D - Volume VI Document No. 784.
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  37. And that isn't even accounting for the British conspiracy to start a war against Germany. "We should attack Germany, not in order to save a particular victim, but in order to pull down the bully" - Neville Chamberlain, 20th March. "England is advising France that they should both go to war regardless of Poland." - Joseph Kennedy, 22nd March. "Halifax felt that the inevitability of war sooner or later should be met right now" - Joseph Kennedy, 24th March. "War, and war now with a near eastern front. Without war the desired results may never be achieved." - Noel Mason-MacFarlane, 28th March. "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." - Cabinet Meeting, 30th March.
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  38.  @eliasmiguelfreire8965  Yes I'm aware of Glantz opinion. It's just funny how it's contradictory to the actual leaders of the USSR at the time.
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  39. Its the traditional goalpost changing and gymnastics British apologists do to avoid the fact that Britain caused and started WW2. Yes, Germany wanted war with Russia. No that did not mean Germany needed to fight anyone else.
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  40. @walterCronkitesleftshoe6684 "and into the 40s", see this is what I mean "We had to stop Germany because they invaded xyz in 1940".
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  41. @ Bismarck launched 3 wars in the 1860s, none of which involved Britain. Explain to me how Britain wasn't responsible for its decision to declare war on Germany. Even if we assume the simplistic, ignorant view of history about German expansionism, and not the reality of Britain encouraging Poland to go to war with Germany because they feared Poland and Germany would come to an agreement.
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  42. @walterCronkitesleftshoe6684 Yes, Jan Szembek describes in his diary on 11 October 1939 that it was a choice to go to war with Germany, a choice which Poland would not have taken, I don't believe, without British guarantees and promises of support.
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  43.  @lefunnyN1  Yeah his content is detailed and intellectual unlike "simple history" and mainstream propaganda shows
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  44. There was indeed plans and documents that support Zhukov's claims about Stalin planning for war with Germany, presumably around 1943. Funnily enough the same people who say there isn't much evidence for this claim, are also the same people that like to talk about the Gleiwitz False Flag incident.
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  45. That's just not true at all though, what Buchannan argues is that Hitler's intentions were always Eastwards against the USSR, nowhere is Hitler ever recorded (until Britain intervenes in Eastern European affairs) in saying that he wants war with the West. On the contrary, Hitler wanted an alliance with Britain and France, instead it was Britain that did not want a strong German power in Europe and sought to prevent this from happening at all costs.
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  46.  @tancreddehauteville764  It might have done had Southern cannons been shelling their homes in Washington. The Vice President of the CSA was on his way to visit Lincoln to negotiate peace just before the defeat at Gettysburg.
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  47. He was generally aware of foreign press, when you read first hand documents in "documents on british foreign policy" he references the hostile foreign press since the munich agreement in his conversations with diplomats
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  48. Plutocrat propaganda says Hitler was a warmonger, even if we say he was one, Churchill wanted and had a large part in starting 2 World Wars and even wanted a third.
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  49. "the idea that Hitler would have been content with Munich" literally who says this ? The idea is either: In Britain's interests: To let Germany expand eastwards. In Polish interests: To let Germany go to war with France and then join Germany in the war against Russia. How WW2 came about was not in the interests of anyone apart from the USA.
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  50. @ "who says that" Piotr Zychowicz and it was probably the original German masterplan.
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