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Could WWII have been avoided?

By T.K. Randall
August 8, 2010 · Comment icon 42 comments

Image Credit: Imperial War Museum
History tells of Irishman Michael Keogh who in 1919 saved Hitler from being kicked to death by a mob.
If the heroic deed that took place 20 years before the horrors of the second world war had never occured would the war have actually happened at all ?
It's the ultimate imponderable in the 'counterfactual' school of history: Could the world have been spared its greatest cataclysm - and more than 70million deaths - but for the unwitting intervention of one forgotten Irishman?


Source: Daily Mail | Comments (42)




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Comment icon #33 Posted by TattooMan 14 years ago
Many people obviously do not know a great deal about history, such as WW I, WW II, Vietnam, etc. Just as we knew ahead of time that the Lusitania was going to be sunk before it was to start WW I, we knew that the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl before hand as well. And the U.S. Navy ship that was sunk off the coast of Vietnam that started the war, was never sunk or attacked. Wars happen not by incidents or dictators rising to power, but by those who really run the show - corporations. Anyone remember when IBM was caught selling and servicing equipment in Nazi Concentration Camps and P.O.W. C... [More]
Comment icon #34 Posted by hetrodoxly 14 years ago
Many people obviously do not know a great deal about history, such as WW I, WW II, Vietnam, etc. Just as we knew ahead of time that the Lusitania was going to be sunk before it was to start WW I, we knew that the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl before hand as well. And the U.S. Navy ship that was sunk off the coast of Vietnam that started the war, was never sunk or attacked. Wars happen not by incidents or dictators rising to power, but by those who really run the show - corporations. Anyone remember when IBM was caught selling and servicing equipment in Nazi Concentration Camps and P.O.W. C... [More]
Comment icon #35 Posted by danielost 14 years ago
Although I agree that WWII would have still happened, I'm not sure I agree with the statement that Corporations are the ones behind the wars. However, they DO benefit from it through government contracts. As far as KNOWING that the U.S. knew of attacks before they happened, possible, but unlikely. The proper word would be "suspected" the attacks would happen. It never ceases to amaze me how conspiracy theorists pass off suspicions as FACT. Yes, the U.S. "suspected" the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor and that it may be imminent. That's it. Corporations did NOT ask for wars to be started. Wa... [More]
Comment icon #36 Posted by saigo 14 years ago
Yea maybe the germans would be stopped but that would leave japan to grow its empire without the world being ready for war as the war with the germans started before the japanese
Comment icon #37 Posted by regeneratia 14 years ago
All wars could be avoided. What a silly thought to think they cannot be avoided! I tried like the dickens to stop the Iraqi invasion and occupation. But our Congressmen were only listening to the liars.
Comment icon #38 Posted by xtiml 14 years ago
well rather they should have kicked to death churchill and roosevelt since they started the war,biggest war mongers/criminals of all,chamberlain had the peace set in but of course..........he was denigrated then driven out , .......you should get your basic facts right anywways.russia was going to attack germany in any case and commie jew russia was the enemy of all and we backed them and let them take half of europe,ww2 benefitted no one but the ????? killed many cuacasians(caucasian self inflicted genocide like fools!)ditto ww1.
Comment icon #39 Posted by xtiml 14 years ago
you can lay ww1 and 2 at the jews doorstep,roosevelts cabibnet or the ones who told him what tyo do qwere all jooz,wilson well ...go reread up on the jews genocide plans for germany as related by mark kaufman in germany must perish, and the morganthau plan roosevelts director of german genocide before and after war.with that mean,murderous terrible jew eisenhower running his death camps.
Comment icon #40 Posted by UFreak 14 years ago
More conspiracies! Love it. Yeah, some things follow a plan, but not everything that's happened was a government cover-up, nor even had a reason. People make money during good economic times, as well as bad times. Same for war. That doesn't ALWAYS equate to forcing in a war. You may not be a thief, but if there's a wad of cash on the ground, and no one around...you gonna take it, or keep walking. Sometimes it happens like that...or, something close anyway. Does it make it more interesting, to assume every reported event has a cover-up invovled some how? People who rise to government acclaim, t... [More]
Comment icon #41 Posted by danielost 14 years ago
well rather they should have kicked to death churchill and roosevelt since they started the war,biggest war mongers/criminals of all,chamberlain had the peace set in but of course..........he was denigrated then driven out , .......you should get your basic facts right anywways.russia was going to attack germany in any case and commie jew russia was the enemy of all and we backed them and let them take half of europe,ww2 benefitted no one but the ????? killed many cuacasians(caucasian self inflicted genocide like fools!)ditto ww1. funny you blame churchill and roosevelt, when niether of them w... [More]
Comment icon #42 Posted by Pompey_Lad_18 14 years ago
well rather they should have kicked to death churchill and roosevelt since they started the war,biggest war mongers/criminals of all,chamberlain had the peace set in but of course..........he was denigrated then driven out , .......you should get your basic facts right anywways.russia was going to attack germany in any case and commie jew russia was the enemy of all and we backed them and let them take half of europe,ww2 benefitted no one but the ????? killed many cuacasians(caucasian self inflicted genocide like fools!)ditto ww1. Have you been to school? Hitler wanted to keep U.K to be peacef... [More]


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