Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Powder Kegs & Lollipops. No worthwhile estimate of the chances of war can be made (as the Frenchman made his) on the basis of an isolated issue, whether it be Hitler's drive for Poland or Stalin's for Berlin. Great nations are not powder kegs exploding into war at the drop of a carelessly tossed diplomatic démarche. Nor are they children, to be pacified by a conciliatory lollipop. Situations ripe for war find the specific issues (sometimes quite trivial ones, like Sarajevo) that start the shooting. Situations not ripe for war ignore specific issues (sometimes very...
...could, of course, be wrong, as the Kaiser and Hitler and Tojo were wrong. Who will win a war is determined by real strength, but whether a war will start is determined largely by estimates of strength, which may be right or wrong...
Germany's old Paul von Hindenburg had offered some sound deathbed advice to his successor (according to some evidence revealed at a war-crimes trial), but up & coming young Adolf Hitler had ignored the warning "not to trust the Italians, and to keep peace with Britain...
...that this company provided the Nazis with American patents necessary for war-making. Perhaps you have also forgotten that many other American firms helped out the Nazi government in its early, and sometimes in its later, stages. Henry Ford, the anti-semitic, was sympathetic to Adolf Hitler and his bully-boys, using his vast resources to aid the latter. A picture of Ford hung in Hitler's office...
...American Military Government in Germany is not being very harsh with the Nazis, who after all rose to power only because the West realized that they might be used as a buffer against the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the businessmen of the West failed to forces that the megalomaniac Hitler would turn not only against Russia, as planned, but also against the Western powers...