# Looking for SDMB thread about Hitler not wanting war with UK/US **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 10, 2015, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-sdmb-thread-about-hitler-not-wanting-war-with-uk-us/712282 "2015-02-10T06:19:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-sdmb-thread-about-hitler-not-wanting-war-with-uk-us/712282/1 "2015-02-10T06:19:04Z")
There was a very interesting thread a few years ago about the claimed fact that Hitler didn’t really want war with the US/UK, or something to that effect. For some reason, my searching is coming up empty. Do you guys remember which thread it is? (If I’m not mistaken, it was in the Pit, but not sure) If you don’t remember this thread, do you know of the background behind this theory, if it is correct, and if correct why Hitler ended up in a war with the UK & US? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-sdmb-thread-about-hitler-not-wanting-war-with-uk-us/712282/2 "2015-02-10T08:22:50Z")
Did you try a Google Search with site:straightdope.com Hitler… ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-sdmb-thread-about-hitler-not-wanting-war-with-uk-us/712282/3 "2015-02-10T15:48:41Z")
Hitler felt a racial kinship to Britain (and France). That the Anglo-Saxons were cousins of the so-called German Aryans and not üntermensch like the Jews, Slavs & Russians etc. And so it followed that America was essentially Britain Jr. although he thought the US was made weak and decadent by capitalist democracy. The reigning British family then (the same as today) was the House of Windsor, but before WWI had been called by their German ancestral name House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The reason Hitler went to war is because Britain refused to align itself with the Nazi govt and stood fast on its commitment to defend Poland if invaded. Hitler declared war on the US again because he felt we were weak and far away and in support of his ally Japan (biggest tactical mistake Hitler ever made). There’s little controversy about any of this not being true, or why. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-sdmb-thread-about-hitler-not-wanting-war-with-uk-us/712282/4 "2015-02-10T16:10:25Z")
Not one of my ten zillion threads about WWII was it, [1940: Hitler’s peace terms to Britain](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=728936)? ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-sdmb-thread-about-hitler-not-wanting-war-with-uk-us/712282/5 "2015-02-11T05:19:13Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > Not one of my ten zillion threads about WWII was it, [1940: Hitler’s peace terms to Britain](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=728936)? It’s not this one. I think the thread I had in mind was related to the book “[Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill,_Hitler_and_the_Unnecessary_War)”, but none of my searches return a thread about this book on the SDMB. I seem to recall it was in the Pit. Maybe the thread was “disappeared” by the mods for some reason.