widowgaycer:

dustlines:

mrs-transmuter:

mrs-transmuter:

“Imagine if people had been going ‘don’t fight hate with hate’ back when Hitler was around.”

Fam…let me tell you bout Poland.

Let me tell you about how the entire rest of Europe sat ack and watched the invasion of Poland because they thought it would be “improper” to send military aid. How they were unwilling to enforce the treaties that Germany was breaking, because that would make them “just as bad.” They sat back and wrote strongly worded letters while fascists grew in power because they didn’t want to dirty their hands. They thought reasonable discussion and politics would be enough to stop a fascist dictator from rising to power.

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t enough.

Even earlier: let me tell you about Czechoslovakia. Let me tell you how the rest of Europe thought that if they just let Hitler take the Sudetenland, he would stop, and peace could be preserved. Let me tell you about how, not long after the Sudetenland became legally German, Germany invaded the rest of the Czech half and the remains of Slovakia were descended upon by other nations. Let me tell you how no one did anything to help Czechoslovakia, even though they were being invaded by a fascist foreign power. Let me tell you that Hitler did not stop with Czechoslovakia.