An Appeasement Compendium

The world, apart from Germany, hoped that Hitler would be satisfied with re-militarizing areas that the Germans had pledged not to in the treaty that ended the First World War. He was not. The former adversaries of the Kaiser ignored Germany sequentially violating limits they had accepted in the types of war materiel they could possess, from ships to aircraft and beyond, but nobody was eager to stoke the fires of conflict. Then the Anschluss occurred, but sane European countries were not eager to lose another generation of young men, and did not carp too much about the Nazis uniting German speaking people. Finally, the Sudetenland fell in the shameful concession to those who were clearly aggressors bent on igniting a new World War, but Chamberlain and his allies on the Continent thought by surrendering enough, there could be "peace in our time". In September 1939, the invasion of Poland proved that war was inevitable, as it had been from the beginning in a time when too many were cowards or filled with self-delusion about the absolute monster Adolf was. This fact set is incontrovertible and might today be extrapolated into how the Islamic Republic of Iran has been treated by other nations trying to avoid war as Shiite madmen subsumed Syria, Lebanon, large swathes of Yemen, and much of Iraq. The mad mullahs are no more reliable "peace partners" than Herr Hitler himself was.