A historical what-if-question

[August]

Originally Posted by mapuc

in my own thread "Military coup in Turkey "

Skybird mentioned Hitler and what happened to Europe-Starting World war 2.

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

Would that give England, France or other countries the right to attack Germany ?

I made a new thread ´cause I wouldn't derail my own thread.

Markus

I think hitler would not have lasted very long before the nazis replaced him with someone more expansionist minded.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by August

I think hitler would not have lasted very long before the nazis replaced him with someone more expansionist minded.

Funny you should mention that...

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Funny you should mention that...

Original Red alert scenario

[Jimbuna]

Those being terrorized by Hitler would most likely have sought help from other countries and at least one (Stalin) would have seen the opportunity to expand westward with the likely prize being Geman industrial complexes and the resultant counter-effect would most likely see western countries, France, UK etc. moving against such communist based expansion.

[STEED]

I think based on the question the West as it was back then would not have acted against Germany. I think the French would have bolstered the maginot line and extended it all the way northwards. Stalin would have completed the molotov line and Germany would have been sort of boxed in. Just to add siegfried line would have been made stronger and maybe some sort of line in East Germany. Probably some sort of cold war may have come about, hard to say.