Scott Horton

Churchill in effect, well, actually not even Churchill,

neville chamberlain before churchill became prime minister neville chamberlain of course had declared peace in our time and that he had an agreement from um from hitler about czechoslovakia he'd only take as much as he'd taken but he wouldn't take the rest then he went ahead and took the rest and then neville chamberlain the lesson for all of us in history is that england and america should have invaded germany in 1938 right right but

What actually happened was he went into an emotional fit.

Neville Chamberlain, because he was humiliated by this, right?

So he threw a fit and went and gave a war guarantee to Poland and said to Poland, if Germany attacks you, we will jump in on your side.

Well,

The thing about that is, Poland was ruled by fascists.

They were called the colonels and they were right-wing, you know, nationalist, virtual Hitlerites themselves.

And they were in process of negotiating over Danzig and whether the Germans would get a corridor to this- With Hitler?

Yeah, over this formerly German city of Danzig that had been awarded to Poland after World War I.

Well, once they got the war guarantee from England, they told Hitler, screw you.

Now we don't have to negotiate with you.

And so he said, no, screw you.

I'm taking Danzig one way or the other and invaded Poland.

But what happened?

Because he knew that England had made this deal with Poland.

Then Hitler went and made a deal with Stalin.

The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the Hitler-Stalin pact that said, let's both invade Poland and divide it.

and have peace between us because he knew that England is now gonna declare war on him and France along with England is gonna declare war on him.

So what does that mean?