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What did Poland get out of the wars and struggles for others? [1108]
The overwhelming answer was yes! Hitler forced anschluss down Austrian throats.
Oh pleeeeaaaaaase...who taught you that crap?
The Treaty of Versailles FORBID an Anschluß, a unification...why do you think they had to do that???
"...Less than a month after German troops marched into Austria, Hitler ordered that the invasion be ratified by plebiscite. The poll conducted on 10 April 1938 showed that 99.75 per cent of Austrians were in favour of the annexation. Subsequent claims that the results were doctored by the Nazis were later substantiated. But recent research suggests that the actual number in favour of Nazi rule was still about two thirds of the electorate.
Professor Gerhard Botz, a historian at Vienna University who has researched the period closely, said yesterday: "Hitler was welcomed into the country as a successful Austrian who was returning home from abroad and suddenly letting his own people take part in his successes. He was a sort of ersatz monarch." ...
A different case. But German and Polish populations co-existed in relative peace.
The Poles were NOT "nice" to their german minority and regarding the time Danzig should fell under polish government they were clear about it:"
"Become polish or leave!"There was no relative peace!
"...The relations between Germany and Poland had already grown tense during the summer because of the question of the treatment of the large Polish minority in Germany and the German minority in Poland.
The struggle of the German minority in Poland against Polonization is paralleled by the struggle of the Polish minority in Germany against their Germanization.
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You speak of Sudetenland as if the Germans were being molested there. They were very happy to be part of Czechoslovakia. Hitler again created disaffection by creating the German Sudeten Party and distorting those Germans' views.
*rolls eyes*
"...President Woodrow Wilson sent ambassador Archibald Coolidge into the newly created state Czechoslovakia. After Coolidge became witness of Czech police brutality against peaceful Sudetengerman demonstrators (54 killed, among them women and children [1]), Coolidge suggested the possibility of ceding certain German-speaking parts of Bohemia to Germany (Cheb) and Austria (South Moravia and South Bohemia). ..."
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According to the February 1921 census 3,123,000 Germans lived in all Czechoslovakia, i.e. 23.4% of the total population.
The controversies between the Czechs and the German minority (which constituted a majority in the Sudetenland areas) lingered on throughout the 1920s, and intensified in the 1930s....
My were they happy!
And you hold the view that nothing could have been done to prevent war because of the treaty?
Not really, no!
A smarter politician might have been able to do the same as Hitler, rising to power on grudges and grievances but stopping at a right, a better moment without losing everything again due taking on the world.
But with Hitler a madman with a racist policy came to power, a fanatic...not a pragmatic....
Stopping him before he had righted things would still have left many Germans restless and unhappy, easy prey for another one like Hitler.
Stopping him at his height proved to be impossible...
