Did Western politicians and French soldiers from 1919-1940 fail to learn from Christ's agony in the garden?

Question

Shouldn't Hitler have been stopped well before 1939? Why did they appease him? Have Western politicians learned their lesson?

Answer 1

Western politicians appeased Hitler,not because they were thinking of Christ's agony in the garden, but because they were thinking of the agony of the millions of men who had been killed in the trenches of World War I. There was a whole generation who were scarred by those experiences and were determined to avoid war at all costs, even if it meant appeasment.

Answer 2

Hitler was a very inspirational speaker.

The crash in Wall Street in 1929 meant that America quit sending aid to Germany and they were in a bad way.

Communism was on the rise and the nazi party opposed it.

Many prominent Germans saw Hitler as their only hope of holding their country together despite his methods and beliefs.

remember, the Holocaust had not happened nor were the Nazis overtly anti-semitic. They were not seen as the monsters we know them to be today.

Germans were very resentful of the Treaty of Versailles and they all considered the conditions of surrender put on them to be way too harsh. They saw Hitler as being strong enough to get them out of the treaty.