ghostfacekiller39
Sunny Day Realtor
@BadgingBadger
France wasn’t in a very good position at all with their internal politics at the time the Rhineland was re-militarized, so I can’t imagine that going over very well. It could work, but it could have huge repercussions internally. It might have even been enough to be a giant stepping stone by Thorez to kickstart a Communist Revolution in France, given they were no small thing at that time there and were diametrically opposed to fighting Germany, leaving them pretty ripe and open from the outside. Might not be the best idea, really.
Even when Nazi Germany started posing a threat and invaded Poland, there was a ton of internal unrest about France doing anything and a ton of protests and whatnot. “Why die for Danzig?” and all, so even motivating them to challenge Nazi Germany once they’d proven to be a legitimate threat was a huge challenge. They didn’t really unify enough internally to fight a war until they’d already lost, in a sense.
That was a huge reason why they were so bowing down to Hitler - the UK as well, to a lesser extent. They could’ve won, sure, but it would’ve been a massive undertaking to just get people to do anything and WWI was still weighing heavily on both nations in a much more negative fashion than the Nazis had spun it to motivate the German populace.
France wasn’t in a very good position at all with their internal politics at the time the Rhineland was re-militarized, so I can’t imagine that going over very well. It could work, but it could have huge repercussions internally. It might have even been enough to be a giant stepping stone by Thorez to kickstart a Communist Revolution in France, given they were no small thing at that time there and were diametrically opposed to fighting Germany, leaving them pretty ripe and open from the outside. Might not be the best idea, really.
Even when Nazi Germany started posing a threat and invaded Poland, there was a ton of internal unrest about France doing anything and a ton of protests and whatnot. “Why die for Danzig?” and all, so even motivating them to challenge Nazi Germany once they’d proven to be a legitimate threat was a huge challenge. They didn’t really unify enough internally to fight a war until they’d already lost, in a sense.
That was a huge reason why they were so bowing down to Hitler - the UK as well, to a lesser extent. They could’ve won, sure, but it would’ve been a massive undertaking to just get people to do anything and WWI was still weighing heavily on both nations in a much more negative fashion than the Nazis had spun it to motivate the German populace.