[leobg]

How so? Hitler got away with it. The Allies declared war on him only nine months later when he also invaded Poland.

And even then, they only did it half-heartedly, and the French pretty much threw away their weapons when the first German panzers arrived. Hitler knew that he had the stronger will to fight. Had it not been for a few other factors (Churchill, Russian winter, and the Hitler's obsession with the jews), he could have taken the whole of Europe.

[dotancohen]

Exactly, Hitler was not incorrect in his assumption that the West did not have an appetite for war. He got away with it.

[leobg]

Oh, sorry. I had not seen the "not" in your original comment.