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Originally Posted by Sloniksp
Several things must be explained here......
1. What year are you talking about?
2. The world really knew nothing of antisemitism until later...some knew about the deportations, but nothing of the faith which awaited the Jews.
3. I cant imagine that England or France would allign themselves with Germany ( which was an enemy less then 25 years earlier ) to go to war as an aggressor against a former ally. Who knows maybe im mistaken.
4. The world at this time knew very little of Soviet Russia or Stalin, why go to war with Russia to begin with?
5. Spain's contribution only amounted to about 45,000 men total which fought only against the Russians, cant imagine it declaring full blown war unless France or England do so.
The countries that I see joining Germany are the ones that historically did.
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1. Pre 1939. If Hitler wanted Austria, Czechoslavkia and Poland as a jump off point for his invasion of Russia.
2. The world did know about the antisemitism after 33' and definitely after 36. But in my what if, this would be nonexistent.
3. To an extent. There was the communist threat and there were pro-nazi factions in both countries. Facism was gaining popularity as a counterweight to communism. Had Hitler not promoted the master race, but instead focused on fighting communism, would Britain and France supported him?
4.They did know about communism and their advocacy for worldwide revolution. Each country had its own communist party and in some like Germany and Italy, fights were already erupting. A good example would be the Spanish civil war. You had three factions all battling each other.
5. I used the Spanish as an example of the reason behind joining Hitler in the war. The Spanish cared less about the aryan race or about the Jews being the reason behind everybody's woes. They did want to fight communism. Spain would have contributed more had the fight only been between facism and Communism. Franco Knew that fighting Britain and the US was suicide. But, had those same countries alligned themselves with Germany or even stood by, would other European countries join in the fight agains Communist Russia.