WI poland gave up the danzig corridor to germany? would germany still try to fight poland even though they would look completly stupid?
i think germany would keep looking to other places for expansion like africa or luxombourg, maybe switzerland.
i think germany would keep looking to other places for expansion like africa or luxombourg, maybe switzerland.
Yes, sure, or maybe Liechtenstein, or Greenland, why not Antarctica?
He would have demanded the Polish corridor next
Germany was going to keep demanding whatever until someone stood up to them
[Danzig not really the issue]
Danzig ist nicht das Objekt, um das es geht. Es handelt sich für uns um die Erweiterung des Lebensraumes im Osten und Sicherstellung der Ernährung, sowie der Lösung des Baltikum-Problems. Lebensmittelversorgung ist nur von dort möglich, wo geringe Besiedelung herrscht. Neben der Fruchtbarkeit wird die deutsche, gründliche Bewirtschaftung die Überschüsse gewaltig steigern.
[Expansion into Luxembourg irrelevant]
In Europa ist keine andere Möglichkeit zu sehen.
[African colonies not interesting]
Kolonien: Warnung vor Schenkung kolonialen Besitzes. Es ist keine Lösung des Ernährungsproblems. Blockade!
Excellent analysis... although a translation of this bit might be nice.
Danzig ist nicht das Objekt, um das es geht. Es handelt sich für uns um die Erweiterung des Lebensraumes im Osten und Sicherstellung der Ernährung, sowie der Lösung des Baltikum-Problems. Lebensmittelversorgung ist nur von dort möglich, wo geringe Besiedelung herrscht. Neben der Fruchtbarkeit wird die deutsche, gründliche Bewirtschaftung die Überschüsse gewaltig steigern.
There is no other solution in Europe.In Europa ist keine andere Möglichkeit zu sehen.
Kolonien: Warnung vor Schenkung kolonialen Besitzes. Es ist keine Lösung des Ernährungsproblems. Blockade!
I think i got the first two sentences but "living-middle-with-sorghum" lost me.
Poland Giving Danzig would have no more saved Poland then giving Sudetenland to Germany saved Czechoslovakia , after getting the Danzig Corridor he would have likely pushed to expand the Third Reich , getting more of Western Poland it lost in World War I , lands given to Hungary after Taranov *small little bits in austria , nothing major* , and possibly , after everything else was consolidated , Alsace Lorriene.
The order is important. #1 is the priority and it was very hard to make concessions on that; #4 is way less important, was used as an excuse at times, and it was perfectly possible to leave German-speakers outside the Reich, provided they were generously treated by a friendly government (Italy, for instance).
If I believe wikipedia, the Germans in South Tyrol were offered the choice to move to Germany or accept italization.
So this is not what I call being treated generously by Hitler's allied government.
But this goes in the same direction as you were pointing that one could speculate that the wellfare of the German minorities was not really Hitler's main preoccupation.