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Thread #162232   Message #3863587
Posted By: Teribus
30-Jun-17 - 11:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: Time to choose on June 8th-UK Elections
Subject: RE: BS: Time to choose on June 8th-UK Elections
"Britain appeased fascism and continued to lick Hitlers arse long after brave men saw what was happening in Europe and went off to fight in Spain"

Oh I don't think it was just Britain Jom. And those brave men you refer to, does that also include the Germans and Italians who went to fight for Franco - you didn't make that clear - you just eulogised brave men who as private citizens wandered off to fight in Spain and as everybody knows there are a minimum of two sides in every conflict.

If you read any book (An actual Historical work as opposed to fiction as preferred by Jom) you would know that the German General Staff gave Hitler two dates to fight a two front war:

1: He must first attack in the West and he must do that after 1936 and before 1939.

2: He must attack in the East no later than 1944.

With the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop in August 1938 there was absolutely nothing that could be done to save Czechoslovakia. By reaching an agreement with Hitler in Munich in September 1938 Chamberlain bought Great Britain time. Great Britain used that time to:

- Establish and make operational the integrated Chain Home Defence system;
- Re-equip RAF Fighter Command squadrons with modern mono-plane fighter aircraft;
- Push through develop and fit ASDIC to Royal Navy escorts;
- Design and build cheap, light escort vessels;
- Increase the intelligence networks focusing on Germany codes and capabilities. Had Chamberlain not succeeded in coming to an agreement with Adolf Hitler in September 1938, Britain would never have had the slightest clue about ENIGMA.

So much for the Prime Minister no-one dares to mention - You ignorant prat without him doing precisely what he did we would have lost the war.