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Well, to be perverse I'm going to name Neville Chamberlain, the Enabler.
Edit: Darn, I hit the "ENTER" button before adding "Francisco Franco, Spain", and "Other".
Any mod want to fix that?
Thanks.
Franco chilled out at the end of his life. I traveled in spain when he was in power and I never got hassled by his police. In fact there was more freedom there than in the us at that time.
I voted for stalin.
I'll admit that my knowledge of Franco is minimal. Then again, I wouldn't vote for him, and let's face it, there's a herd of European leaders not listed. Ceasescu, for example.
I picked Chamberlain for one reason....his failures, combined with France's inactions, are the only reason Hitler was able to grow as large as he did. There were several points in the 1030's where Chamberlain's failure to simply do the right thing gave Hitler a success that fueled his image of invincibility.
Hitler should never have been allowed to re-militarize the Rhineland. England's failure to support France, who refused to act anyway, and move troops into the Rhineland in opposition to Hitler's garrison, would have ended Hitler's political career.
I'll admit that my knowledge of Franco is minimal. Then again, I wouldn't vote for him, and let's face it, there's a herd of European leaders not listed. Ceasescu, for example.
I picked Chamberlain for one reason....his failures, combined with France's inactions, are the only reason Hitler was able to grow as large as he did. There were several points in the 1030's where Chamberlain's failure to simply do the right thing gave Hitler a success that fueled his image of invincibility.
Believe it or not but the US had lots of hitler suppoorters during the rise and fall of the third reich. Charles Lindberg comes to mind.
Are you feeling any regrets now, seeing what he has done?I voted for stalin.
Irrelevant.
The US has lots of Obama supporters, too.
Fools abound.
Always.
Are you feeling any regrets now, seeing what he has done?
Though would things have been better if we had gone to war earlier? for one thing we would have lost because we wouldn't have got the chance to rearm that Chamberlain gave us
I know. :2razz:Are you with stupid. BTW stalin did not allow voting for the people.
Chamberlain for sure. If Britain had shown some backbone to Germany - I am convinced the Holocaust would have either never happened or it would have been a much smaller number of dead people.
1) Who's "we"? I"m an American, not English.
2) Yes, things would have been IMMENSELY better if France, with England's support, had used it's 100 divisions to repel the 3 divisions Germany sent into the Rhineland. As I said, it would have led to Hitler's political demise....and in Germany in the 1930's that would have meant Hitler's death.
Chamberlain made sure that England HAD to re-arm because he failed to stop the problem earlier and cheaper. His dithering was just as effective in treating the problem as the woman who waits six years to see the doctor after she found a lump in her breast.
See a problem? Fix it now. They never fix themselves.
Mussolini. His level of incompetence was unmatched among other European leaders at the time. Sure Chamberlain made mistakes, but that is only with the benefit of hindsight. Mussolini was simply a showboating moron who managed to screw up pretty much everything he did.
1 "We" is "Us" not you
2 Again this is based on the assumption that we had the capacity to "fix it" we didn't until we rearmed. Had we started fighting earlier we would have lost.
Neville Chamberlain, because he actually trusted Hitler.
Hitler was actually a good leader and a warped human being, just a crappy general.
Yes, Germany's three whole divisions would have shattered France's 100.
Why is it that people completely ignorant of military realities want to pretend they can both understand history and have the only valid vision of the future? And when I say "people", I'm referring to you.
1) Hitler was a corporal, a national leader, never a general.
2) HItler's only serious mistake was Operation Barbarossa. If he'd left Russia alone and focused on silencing England, he probably could have won the war.
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