The other European nations were tripping all over themselves trying to appease Hitler. The only thing I'll give them, and it is a big thing, is that they disproportionately blamed Germany for WWI and virtually made it impossible for them to recover from that war, setting up the conditions for the Nazis and the Communists to vie for power and appeal to the suffering population, a competition, as we all know, the Nazis won.
The other European nations were tripping all over themselves trying to appease Hitler. The only thing I'll give them, and it is a big thing, is that they disproportionately blamed Germany for WWI and virtually made it impossible for them to recover from that war, setting up the conditions for the Nazis and the Communists to vie for power and appeal to the suffering population, a competition, as we all know, the Nazis won.