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jakeXT

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3. They knew why Hitler was supported, appeased, given loans etc

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2015, 01:57 AM

May 2015

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Neither of them thinks anything of their pledged word.
As quoted in The New York Times (24 June 1941); also in TIME magazine (2 July 1951))

http://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable

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They knew why Hitler was supported, appeased, given loans etc jakeXT May 2015 #3

Not much different than what Chamberlain did, and for much the same reasons. bemildred May 2015 #5

With a few real differences. Igel May 2015 #7

I did not say they were identical. bemildred May 2015 #8