The "growing room for our people" schtick was wartime propaganda in the later years.
I made a point about why he went into Poland, and you are confusing the timeline as conditions were completely different years later. The conflict snowballed out of control. As the war progressed it became clear that the Allies would not stop until Germany was utterly destroyed, and it was.
Regarding France, the Germans and French hated each other for centuries of wars. The recent animosity was due to the massive reparations due under Versailles and the impoverishment of a generation of Germans.
They were surrounded by hostile nations, so I don't think it was unreasonable to go on the offense knowing that the Soviets were mobilizing which was a threat to all of Europe. He knew a fully mobilized Russia would be unstopable, and he was right about that.
When studying history, it helps to look at the perspective of both sides of a conflict.
You refer to actions taken much later in the war when peace was totally off the table, and the NAZI propaganda machine was put into high gear.
What did I say that is factually wrong?
He begged Mussolini not to invade Greece.
The "growing room for our people" schtick was wartime propaganda in the later years.
I made a point about why he went into Poland, and you are confusing the timeline as conditions were completely different years later. The conflict snowballed out of control. As the war progressed it became clear that the Allies would not stop until Germany was utterly destroyed, and it was.
Regarding France, the Germans and French hated each other for centuries of wars. The recent animosity was due to the massive reparations due under Versailles and the impoverishment of a generation of Germans.
They were surrounded by hostile nations, so I don't think it was unreasonable to go on the offense knowing that the Soviets were mobilizing which was a threat to all of Europe. He knew a fully mobilized Russia would be unstopable, and he was right about that.
When studying history, it helps to look at the perspective of both sides of a conflict.