jillian
Princess
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Pat Buchanan is coming under fire for arguing that Hitler didnt want a European war, and that World War II could have been avoided if Poland had agreed to hand over Gdansk to Germany.
He even appears to have implied that the Holocaust wouldnt have happened if the Allied powers hadnt guaranteed Polands security. Buchanan wrote:
The German-Polish war (sic) had come out of a quarrel over a town the size of Ocean City, Md., in summer. Danzig, 95 percent German, had been severed from Germany at Versailles in violation of Woodrow Wilsons principle of self-determination. Even British leaders thought Danzig should be returned.
Why did Warsaw not negotiate with Berlin, which was hinting at an offer of compensatory territory in Slovakia? Because the Poles had a war guarantee from Britain that, should Germany attack, Britain and her empire would come to Polands rescue.
Buchanan followed his assertion that Poland could have prevented the war with an argument that Hitler was not interested in a broad war to conquer the world. -
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Pat's always made arguments like that. no surprises. and there's a reason that in 2000, he said "somehow I don't think those 8,000 jewish voters in Boca were mine".