| Welcome to the forums Marder_LT. You provide an en excellent summing up of the situation in your 7 points.
In your last post I agree Germany was weak in the mid 30s (someone else on here who would strongly agree with you on this point) in fact didn't Germany need to occupy Czechoslovakia to obtain the Skoda tanks? without these perhaps the offensive in the west wouldn't have been possible so Chamberlain didn't really buy time in failing to give Czechoslovakia support.
I probably disagree that Britain had the strongest navy though. Most capital ships were of WW1 vintage and the carrier aircraft in the early 40s looked as if they came from WW1 with performance little better. They would have been mincemeat against the Japanese navy, hence I believe if Germany and Japan could have collaborated better than they did then Britain could have been brought to heel very quickly .
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Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. Herman Goering
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