Bobo, угу... говорят, что немцы в массе своей сейчас считают, что Вторая Мировая началась для исправления перекосов в Версальском договоре... Я конечно, понимаю, так им думать спокойнее, но нас кто заставляет думать так? Или, может, вы хотите, чтобы мы использовали взгляды, скажем, Геббельса как явно не испытывающего к нам симпатий лица?
Come, come, nay speak, I have an eye on you! (Hamlet)
Кстати, оттуда же, из Британники
First German move
Hitler observed the Abyssinian war with controlled glee, for dissolution of the Stresa Front—composed of the guarantors of Locarno—gave him the chance to reoccupy the Rhineland with minimal risk. A caretaker government under Albert Sarraut was in charge of France during a divisive electoral campaign dominated by the leftist Popular Front, and Britain was convulsed by a constitutional crisis stemming from King Edward VIII's
insistence on marrying an American divorc?e. On March 7, 1936, Hitler ordered a token force of 22,000 soldiers back across the bridges of the Rhine. Characteristically, he chose a weekend for his sudden move and then softened the blow with offers of nonaggression pacts and a new demilitarized zone on both sides of the frontier. Even so,
Hitler assured his generals that he would retreat if the French intervened.
German reoccupation and fortification of the Rhineland
was the most significant turning point of the interwar years. After March 1936 the British and French could no longer take forceful action against Hitler except by provoking the total war they feared. Why did the French, especially, not act to prevent this calamity to their defensive posture?
They were not taken by surprise —Hitler's preparations had been noted—and Sarraut himself told French radio listeners that “Strasbourg would not be left under German guns.” Moreover, the French army still
outnumbered the German and could expect support from Czechoslovakia and possibly Poland. On the other hand, the French army commander, General Maurice Gamelin, vastly overestimated German strength and insisted that a move into the Rhineland be preceded by general mobilization. The French Cabinet also concluded that it should do nothing without the full agreement of the British. But London was not the place to look for backbone. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin shrugged, “They might succeed in smashing Germany with the aid of Russia, but it would probably only result in Germany going Bolshevik,” while the editor of The Times asked, “It's none of our business, is it? It's their own back-garden they're walking into.” By failing to respond to the violation, however, Britain, France, and Italy had broken the Locarno treaties just as gravely as had Germany.
Так что, господа, кто первым начал солдатиков двигать?(*) И кто смотрел на это сквозь пальцы?
А вы вообще, в курсе, что даже в УК есть статья про преступное бездействие, а?
*АК- требуется прямой ответ.
P.S. Бедный, дистрофичный был тогда Запад, ой бедный...Бедная, слабая Британская Империя, над которой не заходило Солнце. Ещё более бедная и слабая Французская Республика. Но и над её колониями Солнце если и заходило- то уж на пару часов от силы, наверное
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P.P.S. =KRoN=, может, таки пофиксить все UBB-коды? Убрать односимвольные коды, оставить только классику?{b}{/b} А то конвертирует эти коды во всякую фигню, и в результате -просто ну никакого форматирования не получается... И редактировать свои сообщения трудно.