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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

WW2 people missed WW2 coming and they'd just gotten out of WW1 twenty years prior.

You can cut 70 year old History Channel nerds a bit of slack.

[-] Atrichum@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I don't have any sources at hand, but I'm pretty sure Europeans saw a second war with Germany coming years before it started.

[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Nah. I hear the french actually just whipped up the maginot line the day before the war kicked off.

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