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Originally posted by Not Bob
I think that what the Spankster meant was that the large and vocal anti-war movement in France and Great Britain (there was an Oxford petition or resolution or something in which students vowed that they would not go to war for King and Country under any circumstances) emboldened Hitler and Mussolini in the mid to late 1930s.
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The '33 resolution of the Union Society was less a "peace movement" thing than an isolationist thing. Might as well call the French capitulation in '40 a "peace movement" rather than a "we just barely recovered from WWI and these Nazis can't be worse than another war like that" thing.
But, yes, Hitler did apparently take the resolution as an indication that the elites of Britain would not involve the country in a continental war and so he had something of a free pass to invade France and Poland.
