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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 3 months ago (1 children)

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 3 months ago

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