Preemption and Regime Change

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Conversely, it is equally easy to see, in retrospect, that France's failure to repel the Wehrmacht battalions and Britain's failure to back her in what would have been nothing more than a police action was a disaster for the West from which sprang all the later ones of even greater magnitude. In March 1936 the two Western democracies were given their last chance to halt, without the risk of a serious war, the rise of a militarized, aggressive, totalitarian Germany and, in fact--as we have seen Hitler admitting--bring the Nazi dictator and his regime tumbling down. They let the chance slip by.

--William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 295

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Now, what could have brought that up...?Ä