On 11/11/2010 12:47 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
> This is to ignore the history of the "Oster conspiracy." The British
> cabinet were well informed not only that the Wehrmacht High Command
> was opposed to Hitler's crazy plan to invade Czechoslovakia (with the
> Sudeten fortifications the Czechoslovak army would in itself have been
> a formidable opponent) but were prepared finally to act to overthrow
> Hitler the moment he ordered war. Chamberlain's problem was that
> Hitler by his repeated public pronouncements had left himself no
> political room to back down. So the choice was not war or
> capitulation--it was upheaval in Germany with the threat of another
> 1919, or capitulation. The national interest said stop Hitler, but
> class interest said keep him in power at all costs. The choice was a
> no-brainer.
Why was Chamberlain worried about another 1919 but not the Wehrmacht?
SA