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Originally Posted by mapuc
But and here's my what if question
What if Hitler stayed put in his own country, doing the same thing terrorize his own people, killing thousands of communist, Jews a.s.o But did not attack Poland, France, England etc
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It was not in Hitler's DNA to just stay at home. Hitler could not have been Hitler for that to happen. He was pretty big in economic self-sufficiency for the Nazi state and despised the idea of being dependent on any other nation for imports of raw strategic materials. For Germany to be a self-sufficient autarky in things like oil, aluminum, tungsten copper, rubber, etc. it had to expand to take those things from other nations. Not to mention all those unsettled borders issues with Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc. that got the expansionist ball rolling.