Seems like it didn't work out for him. Did he just think the Anglos & French were bluffing? He might've won if he was just fighting the USSR instead of all three (and the US) at once.
>>18753133Lebensraum, under the justification of liberating the Germanic Poles from Bolshevism
>>18753136Is that where the thought ended? What did he think the long-term consequences would be?
>>18753143He thought the long term consequences was Japan focusing their military on Russia's Eastern Flank instead of the Pacific, allowing Hitler to negotiate with the Soviets on better terms
>>18753133He got into power with a populist agenda of making Germany great at last so he had to follow up with this. He became hostage of his random musings.
Every twelve year old asks this question, the real question is why Britain and France were too chickenshit to declare war on the USSR when it invaded all of Eastern Europe.
>>18753133Polish GODS always rape germutt apes
>>18753133Jewish communists were genociding ethnic germans, so the Nazis did the only righteous thing they could do, liberate the polish people from the wickedness of jews. Jews, as you should know, seek to murder all of God's children except themselves, to prune the tree, and become by default the only ones capable of inheriting the throne of heaven.
For thousands of years, Poles have been defending europe from savage german orcs>Polish heroes raped germs in 1466>Polish warriors annihilated germs in 1521>Polish knights destroyed germs in 1806>Polish crusaders obliterated germs in 1919>Polish demigods exterminated germs in 1945
>>18753133>Did he just think the Anglos & French were bluffing?Yes, Ribbentrop convinced him they wouldn't do anything, there's a funny convo these 2 have once France and UK declare war on Germany
>>18753133>Seems like it didn't work out for him.Depends on your perspective. The Polish campaign itself was a remarkable success since the Wehrmacht was still at that point largely untested (aside from a few bombing sorties in Spain).>Did he just think the Anglos & French were bluffing? More specifically: He thought Britain was bluffing, since Britain had not done anything during military actions against Ethiopia, Manchuria, Rhineland, Spain, China, Austria, Sudetenland, Albania, Czechia, Klaipeda.The idea was that France wont make a move without Britain, and that Britain wouldnt risk a major war over Poland. The Polish campaign itself was expected to be short and relatively mild.>He might've won if he was just fighting the USSR instead of all three (and the US) at once.Extremely debateable.A better question would be whether he would have attacked the USSR at all if Germany hadnt been at war with Britain.
>>18754457It's not really a conversation.Hitler is stunned by the declaration of war, and immediately snaps at the silent Ribbentrop with a "Well? What now?!"It's a very telling anecdote tho, because it clearly suggests that Hitler clearly did not expect the British declaration of war nor desired it, and that Hitler may have trusted Ribbentrops 'expertise' a little bit too much.
>>18754113The answer to that question is simple: Britain and France did not fight to defend Poland, but to confront Germany.Germany was the most imminent threat since it was more industrialized and right at the French-British border.Had Germany been defeated in 1940, the British and French would likely have turned their attention to the USSR, they had already made several preparations (the Finland expedition and bombing fleet against Baku).This didnt happen, and instead France was defeated and Britain was fighting for its own survival, of whch USSR suddenly became a means to an end to preserve the British empire (unironically this didnt happen either, but hindsight is 101).
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>>18754504>Hitler is stunned by the declaration of war, and immediately snaps at the silent Ribbentrop with a "Well? What now?!"Pure comedy
>>18753133>Seems like it didn't work out for him.at the time they had achieved all their objectives, the war 1939-40 was going great for Germany >Did he just think the Anglos & French were bluffing?yes>He might've won if he was just fighting the USSR instead of all three (and the US) at once.you're looking at it with a lot of hindsight, Poland was knocked out and the Soviets took half, they wouldn't be at war for another 2 yearsthe US was also a couple years off from meaningfully contributing and france had capitulated- there was never a purposeful notion of "fighting everyone at once"
>>18754707>the war 1939-40 was going great for GermanyBattle for Britain was the first real sign that things werent going great anymore.Not because Germany 'lost' that fight, but because it was the first real sign that Germany had lost her strategic direction since the battle was more an act of desperation, victory fever, and wishful thinking rather than a calculated effort to achieve a realistic objective. An invasion of Britain was never realistic and it wasnt even ever on the table, and Germany was never going to win a tug-of-war over fuel and production against a nation like Britain and her empire.My point is that as soon as Britain decided to continue the fight, Germany seemingly lost the strategic direction in how to win the war.And from then-on there was nothing but a cascade of bad strategic decisions that only made things worse, up until 1942 when Germany had essentially reached a point-of-no-return to ever win the war at all.
>>18754752>Britain decided to continue the fightThey got stomped everywhere. Absent the US, Hitler would have been touring London with Speer again.
>>18755232>They got stomped everywhere.They were winning at virtually every theater. The Atlantic, Mediteranian, North Africa.But the real damage was the blockade since it made Germany dependable on the USSR.
>>18755240>They were winning at virtually every theaterNo, they lost everywhere. In every theater. They got raped in Tobruk in June 1942 for crisakes. 3 solid years of losing.
>>18755245Tobruk which turned out to be useless for Rommel since it didnt improve his supply situation at all, nor did it affect Britains strategic situation either. I can already tell you dont know anything about the desert war.The mere existence of the theater was a strategic victory for Britain, especially when Rommel entered Egypt in 1942 and basically HAD to dash for El-Alamein before his entire corps would implode from deprived logistics.Germany was never going to beat Britain at a war at sea and air and overseas, since such a war is a war of resources, resources which Germany did not have, but the vast British empire did, along with the complete world market which Germany was isolated from and instead had to be completely subservient to the USSR for any kind of raw material import.
>>18755250>Germany was never going to beat Britain at a warThe bongs were beat in 1940, and groveled to the US to save them. 3 solid years of losing. Everywhere. In every theater. Humiliation everywhere.
>>18755250And Tobruk 1942, with 25,000 bongs taken prisoner, was the piece de resistance, the ultimate cap to bong incompetence.
>>18754116>>18754121Bingo.>>18754549Enjoy burning.
