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Hitler does something rational. He does not invade Poland, France, and start World War Two - would there still be a world war?
 
Only way that Hitler does not begin WW2 is that he never get power or dies before the war. If there is not Nazis in power it is possible that there is not WW2. But if Nazis still rise to power but Hitler dies before WW2 it depends when Hitler dies.
 
Hitler does something rational. He does not invade Poland, France, and start World War Two - would there still be a world war?
If Hitler doesn't invade Poland, the German economy collapses. What that entails (military coup, civil war that serves to draw in all of Europe, the break up of Germany) has so many possibilities. In the end, it is still likely better than what the Nazis brought to the table.
 
Not true at all. Germany was the marvel of the Industrialized World at the time with Universal Healthcare no less.

except that Hitler spend so much money in rearmament
That his Minister of Finance warned him that Reich would Bankrup to end of year.
before that happened Hitler invaded Poland
 
Not true at all. Germany was the marvel of the Industrialized World at the time with Universal Healthcare no less.
Not sure if joking.

Germany was on a completely unsustainable course due to its military spending and would collapse without direct injection of resources through pillage. I do agree with you, universal healthcare does save money for governments while being much more effective than the alternative, yes, but absurdly oversized military spending counterbalances this many times, making the Nazi Germany’s economic model utterly dependent on war to survive.
 
It's also one thing for Germany under Bismarck to introduce social welfare programs in an era where Germany's economy is organized fairly sensibly without specifically gearing up for wars of conquest. ISTR Bismarck even advised the Kaiser to forget colonial adventurism, reasoning that an overseas empire was a money sink.

It's another to have Germany under Hitler expanding its armed forces well beyond any rational estimate of internal defence needs because the unstated objective is to seize the wealth of whatever nations those armed forces conquer.
 
Not sure if joking.

Germany was on a completely unsustainable course due to its military spending and would collapse without direct injection of resources through pillage. I do agree with you, universal healthcare does save money for governments while being much more effective than the alternative, yes, but absurdly oversized military spending counterbalances this many times, making the Nazi Germany’s economic model utterly dependent on war to survive.

What if they had instead invaded Italy? Putting the rationale of Germany attacking its closest ally aside, would Britain, France, or the Soviet Union have any vested interest in helping the Italians?
 
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