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Originally Posted by Magnum PEI
I think you overvalue Canada's role in WW2.
Half of Europe became communist after the war anyway, so it wouldn't have been that much different.
Let's say Britain and France don't declare war in Sep. 1939 and let Germany have Gdansk. One of two things likely would have happened.
1. Hitler makes no more territorial acquisitions and rules a prosperous Germany for the rest of his life. He did say his only ambitions were Gdansk and Silesia, the areas taken away after Versailles (though he said a lot of things).
2.Hitler invades Russia in the early 1940's and wins, making Germany the leading world power, with USA, Britain, and Japan.
Don't really see how any of these scenarios affects the freedom of Canadians.
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I think that you under value the role of Canada in the role and especially in terms of the battle of the Atlantic to support a really out of left field historical theory.
I don't know where you got your facts about Hitler but it was pretty clear that the concept of appeasement served to encourage Hitler not to make him settle.
He had a vision of a entirely united Aryan based Europe ruled under Germany's thumb.
He wanted resources that Germany didn't have and living space that Germany didn't have, it went beyond the humiliation of the treaty of Versailles.
He saw Great Britain as one of the many crowns in his conquest plan, he also realized and his high command realized that if they took Britain they effectively would have secured Fortress Europe from Western Invasion for all time, he could have then picked off Russia at his leisure with a much larger and well supplied and armed military.
There would have been no independent Britain in that future power triangle which would have been Japan essentially crawling up Siberia and Germany hammering through the front door.
Italy would have in a perfect world been depended on to seal shut anySouthern Invasion into Europe.
Hitler had no intention of stopping, he was a man who didn't have much respect for people that surrendered territory or resources to him, he was the ultimate narcissistic personality and was not rational.