dbwi No Czech war

As you will recall Britain and France only backed Czechoslovakia half heartedly. The key factor was Polands numbers with the Czech's armamwents industfy with the invasion from the WEst happening only when it was clear the Nazis would lose.

Would reactionary Poland have been able to domimate so much of Eastern Europe without that, having the Baltic states as clients and controling East Prussia to the Curzon line (as well as small Czech terrioires given to sweaten the deal)

Would a third of the German population of the Sudenten land have left?

Might the Nazis have fallen to a Democracy rather than to the re-established Hapsbergs?

If some kind of deal had been done, you know the Germans get the German bit of Czecholsolvkia, would the Nazis have stuck to it?

Was going to war in 1938 a mistake?
 
Was a war in 1938 a mistake? To be honest I'm torn, on the one hand Hitler was establishing a pretty evil state there in 1930's Germany. If he had managed to stay in power I wouldn't want to be a non-Aryan in Germany...maybe even in Europe.

If the allies hadn't have gone to war over Sudetenland, there's a chance they would go to war with Hitler over his later "conquests". The thing is where does he go next? Does he try to annex the rest of Czechoslovakia (perhaps creating an independent Slovakia or splitting the country with Hungary?) or does he be more rational and go after Danzig?

I think that Danzig is the more likely choice. Hitler will probably go after that. I doubt the Allies are going to be willing to fight over Poland. Most likely Poland goes up against Germany and though it'll be a close fight, I think Germany will come out on top.
 
I think we can all agree avoiding the Second Polish-Soviet War would have definitely been a good thing. It replaced a reactionary military dictatorship's hegemony with that of a Communist totalitarian regime, and Poland's dictatorship did not understand how to win hearts and minds, while being too weak to repress *its* enemies, where the Soviets didn't give a *damn* about hearts and minds and had perfect training in repressing theirs.

We were lucky the Soviets were content to stop at hegemony in Central Europe at the time and made it clear that they were not going to go further, otherwise we might have had a third general European war in a century. :mad:
 
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