And encouraged Hitler to go East in the hope that the two foul dictatorships of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia tear each other's guts out without harming the democracies. Would that keep the war and the horrors of the Holocaust away from the Western democracies? (who could allways attack Hitler if he was clearly losing to the Soviet Union, or else concentrate on inventing the nuclear bomb, either to use it on Nazi Germany or to have a Cold War with the Reich.)