Someone with more time on his hands than I did a great service by plotting out the actual build up to WWII and if you were taught in the public school system that Hitler wanted to rule the world, rather than retake German lands lost after WWI and crush the East, this is very enlightening. My favorite part of this is the blatant antagonism Poland shows towards Germany back when its power was relevant. Of course we all know Poland was just a victim of German aggression, right? Keep in mind, Hitler was a monster, but then so were Stalin, FDR, and Churchill. A century of propaganda has whitewashed the truth and buried the responsibility of the West for WWII.
Timeline to War-
http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/p...ne-to-war.html
Some books related to this subject I recommend-
Much like 9/11 being used to justify attacking Saddam Hussein, Hitler had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor yet the US government (despite FDR purposely pushing Japan into attacking) and the press fed the people the lie that the Nazis had to either have planned or carried it out because Japs were inferior. Most Americans believed Hitler was behind Pearl Harbor, yet Nazis were scrambling to find it on a map. After Nazi documents confirmed that Hitler had no idea about the attack, the US and historians rewrote history to make our declaration of war against Germany a response to Hitler's declaration of war. Except that Hitler didn't declare war, but gave a speech attacking the US for its illegal naval war in the Atlantic that FDR was happy to wage for the Allies.
Hitler Attacks Pearl Harbor-
http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Attacks.../dp/1588261263
We also ignore that Wall Street built up national socialism and rearmed Germany for another war, and FDR pushed for war by any means possible. FDR himself invested in Germany's war machine when he, as a corporate $#@! of Wall Street and international financing, founded his United European Investors Corporation ltd. to which invested in explosives, ship yards, poison gas, etc. Plus who can forget that FDR's New Deal/NRA was linked to Hitler's New Order through the industrialists Owen D. Young's Young Plan and Gerard Swope's Swope Plan? Everything is economics, especially war.
Wall Street and FDR-
http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-FD.../dp/0899683258
http://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=WallStFDR
http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/S..._and_FDR-3.pdf
http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-fdr.html
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler-
http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Hi.../ref=pd_cp_b_0
http://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?...e=WallStHitler
http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/S...d_Hitler-5.pdf
http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/
http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-hitler.html
We seem to forget that Poland, France and Great Britain were pushing for war with Hitler. We also forget that Stalin wanted the West to rip itself apart. Even the United States played a part. Hitler was scum, but his aims were not as radical geo-politically as we're brought up to believe.
Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War-
http://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Hitl.../dp/0307405168