What cause could justify such Horrors ?
The German-Polish war had come out of a quarrel over a town Danzig, the size of 1950 square Kilometers, population 408,000, 95 percent German, had been forcibly severed from Germany at Versailles in violation of Woodrow Wilson’s principle of self-determination. All world leaders and many British leaders thought Danzig should be returned as its 97.6% population had voted against forced union with Poland in the year 1919. After the war, whole of Poland and half of europe is gifted By same england and France to their arch enemy Russia.
Was Danzig worth a war? Unlike the 7 million Hong Kongnese whom the British surrendered to Beijing, who didn’t want to go, the Danzigers were clamoring to return to Germany.
If Hitler wanted the world, why did he not build strategic bombers, instead of two-engine Dorniers and Heinkels that could not even reach Britain from Germany?
Why did he let the British army go at Dunkirk?
Why did he offer the British peace, twice, after Poland fell, and again after France fell?
Why, when Paris fell, did Hitler not demand the French fleet, as the Allies demanded and got the Kaiser’s fleet? Why did he not demand bases in French-controlled Syria to attack Suez? Why did he beg Benito Mussolini not to attack Greece?
Why Hitler did not use Chemical Weapons against Normandy Landings ?
Why Hitler did not encourage and rather banned production of atomic weapons?
Because Hitler never wanted world domination but simple a plebiscite to allow people to rejoin Germany which had been cut in pieces in 1919 and gifted to other nations (supra). He never wanted war.
Hitler's Reichstag Speech of September 1, 1939
Hitler spoke to the German Reichstag at 10:10, on the morning of September 1st. He reminded his deputies that Danzig "was and is German." He made the same comment about the Corridor, which he had been willing to renounce to Poland, as he had renounced Alsace-Lorraine to France and South Tirol to Italy, in the interest of peace and cooperation. Hitler emphasized that he had attempted to solve all German problems by "peaceful revision (friedlicher Revision)." He confessed the failure of this attempt, and he deplored the fact that many of the practices of England were in evident contradiction to the provisions of international law. Danzig and the Corridor were problems which had to be solved. Hitler conceded that it might be a matter of indifference to the West when this was to be, but this was not true for Germany. Above all, it was not a matter of indifference to the hundreds of thousands of people suffering from the absence of a settlement. Hitler had announced his position in this dispute to the German Reichstag on April 28, 1939. He was prepared to resume negotiations for a settlement of differences with both Great Britain and Poland. He had waited four months in vain for some response from the Polish side. The British advised him on August 28th that Poland was prepared to resume negotiations. He informed the British Government on the following day that Germany was prepared to negotiate. He waited in vain another two days for a response from Poland. The Polish Ambassador at last announced on August 31st that the Warsaw Government was considering whether or not it would negotiate with Germany. Lipski indicated that they would inform England, and not Germany, of their eventual decision. This meant that the Polish attitude on August 31st was actually far short of what the British had indicated it to be on August 28th. Hitler promised that he never had asked and never would ask anything from Great Britain and France. He ardently desired an understanding with England, "but love cannot be provided from one side if it is not received from the other (aber Liebe kann nicht nur von einer Seite geboten werden, sie muss von der anderen ihre Erwiderung finden)." This was an amazing declaration to the leaders of a nation which had attacked Germany in 1914, had starved to death hundreds of thousands of German children and old people, and was threatening to attack Germany twenty-five years later in a dispute which did not affect British interests. Indeed, the dispute in 1939 concerned what other prominent Englishmen had insisted was the most objectionable part of the 1919 settlement. Sir Austin Chamberlain, the brother of the Prime Minister, had promised in 1925 that no British grenadier would be required to die for Danzig or the Polish Corridor which were essentially German.