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This thought came up to me while viewing another thread. What if the Poles, Czechs, and Lithuanians truly DID oppress German minorities on a scale that causes Hitler to actually be seen as justified invading those countries?

Is there any way to forstall western intervention in the war, and somehow, make public opinion in America go a lot more in German favor?

I think that the militarist Polish government might be capable of such stupidity, and a pogrom or open discrimination of Germans might provide all the impetus necessary for a "just" war. Also, say the Czechs, who are actually more democratic, get a really reactionary government that does openly oppress the Sudeten Germans in a way so egregious that League of Nations condemns them.

Basically, the thing I have in mind is a west that is willing to look the other way to Hitler's eastern aggression because of the notion that he is doing whats right for his people.

I know that eventually things would swing the other way when Hitler shows his true colors, but what kind of impact would this have on the war in general if Britain and France see Hitler as being in the right?
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