“I’m an amateur student of history and I’m reminded of ... how Germany was testing the waters and what the response was by various other European powers,” he said, referring to the Nazis’ territorial conquests in the months before the outbreak of the second world war.
“They tested the waters and they were ready to back down if, for instance, in that aspect, France said (to back down).
But unfortunately, up to the annexation of the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, the annexation of the entire country of Czechoslovakia, nobody said stop.
If somebody said stop to Hitler at that point in time, or to Germany at that time, would we have avoided World War II.”
From the Guardian.
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