Ollie Defends Conventional Wisdom

Oliver North, Fox News’ Appeasing & Emboldening Revisionistorian

Phooey.

Ollie defends, and they do not challenge, the conventional view that had Chamberlain, who did not believe this, hung tough then Hitler would have folded at Munich in September 1938.

The claim this might have not merely delayed but actually prevented the Second World War is Ollie’s own walk out onto a limb, though, I think.

The conventional wisdom also holds that Hitler was absolutely determined to complete the unification of Greater Germany, to wreck Communism, and to buy the German people "lebensraum" in Eastern Europe, reducing the slavs of that whole region to helotry.

Anyway, Chamberlain thought when he got off that plane in England that if he hadn’t thrown Hitler a bone the German dictator would have plunged all Europe into war, right then in 1938, over the question of the Sudetenland.

A real revisionist would support that view against the conventional wisdom.

In any case, though Chamberlain clearly hoped he had bought more time than that as well as, perhaps, a chance for conditions for lasting peace to gel, war did not in fact begin until September of 1939, a whole year later.

And that was war in the East.

War didn’t come to France and Britain until May of 1940.

So he bought about a year and a half of peace for his country and for France, and about a year for their ally, Poland.

Well, why be in a hurry for war?