Fwd: Truth is the First Casualty of War

[Brad De Long]

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>glb answers:
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>Chamberlain's words AND actions establish "intent" quite clearly, 
>especially when we add in the approval of Hitler/fascism from his 
>class. He was intent on giving Hitler a "free-hand" towards the 
>east, even at the expense of functioning democracies.

This is also incoherent...

If the Chamberlain-headed British government "was intent on giving 
Hitler a free-hand towards the east," then why did it declare war 
when Hitler invaded Poland? All it had to do was shrug its shoulders 
when the panzers moved east, and declare that Britain's security 
interests on the north European plain stopped at the Rhine.

But the British government did not do that. Instead they declared war 
and mobilized for a prolonged struggle of attrition...

Brad DeLong