I don't know. They were traumatised and it was all starting again. Chamberlain was rightly criticised, but I think he was motivated by a desire to stop mass death. They didn't want to believe they had to go through it all again.
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Granting a genocidal maniac a free ticket to annex whatever foreign land he wants is hardly an effective method to prevent mass death. Which is a lesson the world is soon going to learn (all over again) this time with Putin. Unless he gets stopped soon.
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That's with hindsight. I don't think they quite understood Hitler or his mindset. They thought him a fool and largely harmless.
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You are probably right but I refuse to take that as an excuse, because history shows that many other contemporaries assessed Hitler exactly for what he turned out to be. The world was warned. Everything that happened was preventable. As it is now. But many world leaders today might be even dumber. 🫤
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Trump has that same dangerous fool vibe.
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Trump is a trigger happy simpleton, problem is he doesn't have a finger on a gun but on a nuclear arsenal. For all those claims of being anti-war that got him elected (among many other stupid and all too transparent lies) this one is the most obvious deception. I see him as a warmonger.
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