Savageduck wrote:
On 2011-10-17 02:30:04 -0700, Whisky-dave
said:

I;'d heard that the reason WWII came about was because Hitlers mother
was going to have an abortion
but her doctor talked her out of it, so is that doctor responsible
for WWII .


It would be just as reasonable to say the only reason Hitler came to
power, and subsequently WWII came about, was because the Central
powers lost WWI, and Germany was gutted by the Western Allies in 1919
with the Treaty of Versailles.

Quite.

Also, you could say the Central Powers lost the war unconditionally because
the U.S. entered it in 1917, with great quantities of fresh troops,
munitions and food. The European forces by then were pretty much exhausted
on both sides, and probably would have had to settle the whole thing
eventually with something much less drastic and punitive than the Versailles
treaty.

Also, if Chamberlain, humiliated after Munich, had not out of pique made
those foolish guarantees to Poland, the Poles probably would have been
reasonable about negotiating with Hitler over the matter of returning Danzig
to Germany -- which most British, even the bellicose Churchill, thought
should have been done anyway. Danzig was ethnically 95% German and wanted to
be returned to Germany just as much as Hitler wanted it returned. There
might have been a war anyway, but it wouldn't have been another world war.
Hitler certainly never wanted war with Britain or any other part of the
west.

Also, if a certain butterfly had not fluttered by in quite that way at just
the right moment in Indonesia, of course everything might have been
different. ;-)