@5129frederick wrote:

By God's Grace, we live in peace.  

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Sorry, but only by God's Grace?  

We might have avoided the second world war if Germany had not fooled the Allies in the years after the First World War and secretly rearmed while pleading poverty.  Adolf Hitler came to power with a fixed determination to extend Germany's borders...of Versailles.

No country questioned his breach of the Treaty of Versailles; they backed down and his prestige grew, it made him very popular in Germany - it reduced unemployment, it made Germany strong, and he had defied the hated Treaty of Versailles.

Conscription was specifically forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles,  but rearmament had been going on secretly since 1933, but in 1935 Hitler rearmed. 

One thing that's certain is that they should never have been allowed to rearm with even a water pistol. No matter what it cost (but a tiny, tiny fraction of a war surly) it should not have been allowed to happen?  They lost the first world war, and as if that wasn't enough to make sure they could not start another one (difficult, but could have done) was absolute madness. All the first world war sacrifices, suffering, destruction and deaths were not for much then. What absolute madness to let them out to attack the world again.  

Look and Remember what the Russians (USSR) did? They lost at least ''25 million people''. And without them what chance would we have stood? 

My God we,like and most other countries certainly did our bit, and certainly could not have done much more. But the figures certainly show they did more.  That's a fact.