Comments by "AFGuidesHD" (@AFGuidesHD) on "Why Historians repeat themselves" video.

Historians seem to repeat themselves probably because "Adolf Hitler's Evil Henchmen and How Germany Started WW2" is more likely to be published and sell well compared to "Edward Halifax's Evil Plot and How Britain Started WW2", given the result of said conflict.
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Not to mention some of them were actually able to talk to the policy makers themselves, such as Simon Newman in "March 1939: The British Guarantee to Poland"
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@Paciat I imagine we'd all still be blaming Germany for war if it was the Germans that maliciously undermined Anglo-Irish relations, went around Europe looking for allies in said war and then ultimately declared war on Britain after refusing a peace conference.
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@Paciat Why do you include war time invasions that otherwise would not have occurred ? Or do you think the Brits would invade Iceland, Iran, Norway, Portugal and Lybia outside of the war ? "Germany one day invaded Poland". You should read Simon Newman's "march 1939 the british guarantee to poland" and then read the primary sources of the diplomatic communications in "documents on british/ german foreign policy" to get the full picture yourself. Germany wanted and tried to get a peaceful and by (German) standards a very amicable deal with Poland. It was the British that feared Poland would remain a partner of Germany instead of an antagonist and thus sought to undermine their relations with Germany. Even if we pretend the narrative is as simple as "Britain merely defended Poland from big bad Germany", it was still Britain that chose to start a war against Germany. Has Russia started WW3 for invading Ukraine ? Did the USA start WW3 by invading Iraq ?
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@Paciat "You think Hitler raised his army for not fighting at peace negotiations?" Yes actually. In 1930 and 31 Austria and Germany sought to form a peaceful, cordial trade relationship. Germany had no army, the French did not want this to happen and threatened Germany. Had Germany had an army, France would have had no position to dictate upon Germany and Austria's bilateral trade relations. So it was actually proven that you need an army even to have a peaceful and wholesome economic existence.
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@MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized Similarly there's plenty of documents that are held under British Secret laws. I think one of Hitler's peace offers was supposed to be released a while ago but got extended protection.
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@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 "it's unlikely to alter the basic picture" Have you read Simon Newman's "March 1939 the British guarantee to Poland" ? and/ or read the primary sources yourself ? It's super interesting how we go from "England is advising France that they should both go to war regardless of Poland" to "it's totally all Germany's fault" in the popular historiography.
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