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Minor quibble: knowledge that the events of WWI and subsequent peace conferences might lead to a successive war is very different from being prepared for the war. Most nations were completely exhausted from WWI...the only one besides Germany that had significant military preparations was France, and they spent an exorbitant amount of money on Maginot Line construction.

  On 5/16/2012 at 8:47 AM, goDel said:

Came across a timelapse video of the map of europe over the period 1000-2003. Putting things into a nice perspective.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoWtvpg77oE

Viva EU!

wow that is amazing. must have taken forever. thanks for the post.

I always love seeing little Brandenburg start spreading outward into the rest of Germany.

That's why I qualified it with "not entirely accurate". ;)

There were other signs though - Britain's development of radar for example, as well as the continued R&D on new fighter planes. On the continent things were a little more sketchy, but I mean, you had Poland deploying troops against Germany during the paris peace conference (admittedly not in preparation for a second world war, but the idea that Polish aggression could trigger more hostilities was very real).

However, yes, no one really matched Germany in terms of their "shadow factories".

is that time-lapse map anywhere else? youtoob took it down

european politics is way cooler than US imho

  On 5/17/2012 at 8:56 PM, theSun said:

is that time-lapse map anywhere else? youtoob took it down

 

european politics is way cooler than US imho

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/europe-history-time-lapse_n_1520724.html

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f54_1337075813

awesome thanks

Thigns getting toghether, things falling apart. It's a natural cycle of nature. Chaos reigns