Germany 75 years ago: ‘What do you mean, a world war?’

[BlueStateSaint]

Interesting column in today's New York Post.  Funny how history has this way of repeating itself . . .

War?  Who says?

By Peggy Dooley                                           September 1, 2014 | 1:14am


World War II began on September 1, 1939, after Hitler signed a non-agression pact with Russia.

Shortly after 4:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler ordered the attack on Poland to begin, launching the Second World War. The only people who didn’t seem to realize it were the Germans themselves.

American journalist Virginia Cowles awoke in Berlin that day to the sound of boots marching down the famous boulevard Unter den Linden outside her hotel; she watched from her balcony as storm troopers lined the avenue.

At 10 a.m., in the office of the US military attaché, she listened to Hitler’s brief speech to the Reichstag laying out all the “atrocities” committed by Poland and announcing that Germany had been “returning” Polish fire since early that morning.

She lunched with the British counselor and military attaché, who told her Britain’s declaration of war would come any time. A group of German officials eyed the Englishmen from a table nearby.

After lunch, Cowles asked the desk clerk what he thought about a world war. He looked at her, amazed.

The rest of it is here:  http://nypost.com/2014/09/01/germany-75-years-ago-what-do-you-mean-a-world-war/

The more things change . . .

[DumbAss Tanker]

The shit Putin is trying to pull in Ukraine is virtually a carbon copy of the Sudetenland Crisis, rather than Poland.  Unfortunately, both were wildly popular with the population of the aggressor nation, with no idea what kind of shit they were really getting into.