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Thanks. Did France feel the same way back in 1938? Also, off-topic question: Had Hungary insisted on acquiring and annexing eastern Galicia as a precondition for its participation in Operation Barbarossa, would Hitler have actually accepted this Hungarian demand?

You know, I wonder how things would have unfolded in a TL where Hughes wins the US Presidency in 1916, followed by a Democratic 1920s, followed by a Republican such as Hoover winning in 1932 and 1936. Hoover's views before and during early World War II were pretty isolationist or at least...

Was war fever in France in 1939? I'm presuming that it was stronger in Britain in 1939 than in 1938 and about the same in the US, according to what you're writing?

The German white book for World War I? : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_German_White_Book If so, what about what it says here? : Is this information false due to the Polish archives confirming the German documents?

Do you think that the Polonkadonks (Poles) could have survived for six months had they retreated to eastern Galicia, used Romania as a bridgehead for supplies, and somehow avoided having the USSR invade the eastern part of thir country? At least the West gets to teach Russia a very painful...

And they expected the Poles to last for several months in 1939 in real life, right? Similar to Ukraine right now, right? ;) BTW, some additional polling from that time period: https://news.gallup.com/vault/214142/gallup-vault-fdr-won-1939-popularity-poll-france.aspx The people of the US...

I think that it would be too much of a blow to Allied honor to give up after Czechoslovakia falls. This would also mean that a lot of Allied lives would have been sacrificed in vain, which the Allies would very likely NOT want. BTW, somewhat off-topic, but you might be interested in this...

If war starts over Czechoslovakia in 1938, then wouldn't there be a Nazi invasion of France in 1939? If so, wouldn't there be a realistic chance of France falling a year earlier?

If France already falls (except this time in 1939 rather than in 1940), wouldn't Romania still want to join the Axis rather than the Allies? And if the Soviets invade Romania, then it seems like Romania will be asking the Germans and Poles for assistance, no?

Napoleon was Britain's punishment for not stopping France from annexing Corsica like some British politicians back then actually wanted to do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsican_Crisis

FWIW, the Romanians' attitude towards the Jews sometimes turned bloody even before the start of Operation Barbarossa, such as here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ia%C8%99i_pogrom

Yeah. Yitzhak Arad's book The Holocaust in the Soviet Union provides some data for this for Soviet Poland, as does this article for German Poland: http://rcin.org.pl/Content/15652/WA51_13607_r2011-nr12_Monografie.pdf From page 191 in the link right above: Poland west of the Curzon Line had...

I've previously seen figures of about 2 million Jews in the German zone of Poland and about 1.3 million Jews in the Soviet zone of Poland. Though this doesn't include Jewish refugees who moved from German Poland to Soviet Poland, so maybe you'd have something like 1.5-1.6 million Jews in Soviet...

And any Polish regime willing to ally with Hitler might prefer that its Jews starve before the rest of the Polish population, right?

So, Poland exported food while some of its people starved? :(

But why didn't this benefit the Nazis when they occupied Poland?

But how would the Poles be able to feed them?

https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/the-holocaust-in-hungary/the-holocaust-in-hungary-frequently-asked-questions

Question: Had Poland been an Axis member (Anglo-French fight over Czechoslovakia in 1938 and France subsequently falls in 1939), would the Nazis have still pressed for the extermination of Polish Jewry en masse if they could not quickly defeat the Soviet Union? They'd still have to deal with the...

Yes, he did, on July 6. The Nazis were able to smuggle an additional couple of trains out of Hungary, but the deportations stopped for good on July 9. They planned to resume on August 27, but got postponed again due to Romania's exit from the war on August 23. By the time that the Arrow Cross...