HITLER & EASTERN EUROPEANS; NATIONALISM ; SCHNEERSON
Maybe nearly a half of Eastern Europeans - included many Ukrainians - allied with the Nazis, and it is helpful for today to understand why
Bit of complexity in the Munich story, from the fact that in the 1930s, Hitler's Germans were not the only 'bad guys'. There were also other bullies, both big and small:
- Stalin's USSR
- Czechs linked to Stalin, who bossed Slovaks, Germans, Poles and Ukrainians, in an artificial, oppressive 'Czechoslovakia'
- Serbians oppressing others in 'Yugoslavia'
- Poles invaded Ukraine post-1918, carving it up with the USSR ... in 1938 Poland bullied Lithuania ... and in 1939 Poland invaded 'Czechoslovakia' even before Hitler did
Hitler was an imperialist aggressor, but Munich was not the turning point - that came later, in March 1939, when Hitler bullied his way into Prague and began ruling over non-Germans for the first time
At the time of 1938 Munich, it was widely thought Chamberlain made a just and fair decision, and it is still often thought so today.
After World War 1, two small Slavic imperialist groups - Czechs and Serbs - pulled off scams, creating oppressive 'mini-empires' under themselves, claiming rule over other ethnicities. Also, Poland was hardly restored when it invaded Ukraine trying to restore its pre-1772 Polish Empire.
Czechoslovakia was run by 'Czecho-Bolsheviks' sympathetic to Stalin; their German regions, admiring 1930s German economic success, were oppressed by Prague. Many in Europe saw the need to rectify the injustices of post-1918 borders, letting all Germans be in Germany.
Just after the 1938 Munich deal, George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890-1966), published a book in London, 'The Czech Conspiracy', giving the pro-German side - he was later jailed by Churchill.
What got the war going, was not the Munich deal ... it was the March 1939 Hitler extortion and take-over of Prague and Czechia (tho Hitler let Slovakia loose, and let Poles have their segment back).
Hitler conquering Slavs was inexcusable and ugly, this the moment when Hitler fatally sabotaged Germany ... this gave the British war party the pretext they needed, to make their extreme deal with ruling Polish strongman Edward Rydz-Śmigły, and within 6 months the big war had started.
But in World War II -
Some in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia felt 'liberated' from Stalin by Nazis
Some Ukrainians felt 'liberated' from Poles and Russians by Nazis
Some Slovakians felt 'liberated' from Czechs by Nazis
Some Croatians felt 'liberated' from Serbs by Nazis
Some Hungarians felt Hitler was an ally against post-1918 injustices they had suffered
Also a number of other Europeans sided with Nazis, for either local dispute reasons, or for the sake of fighting 'Bolshevism', seen as fighting the destruction of religion, tradition & the middle class
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