Hitler: Could He Have Been Stopped? | show | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A series in which historians consider occasions when the Second World War might have been avoided, and the nature of the | dHNfUFNEREluWlRyZ0U

Transcript

00:00This is London. You will now hear a statement by the Prime Minister.

00:09I am speaking to you from the cabinet room at 10 Downing Street.

00:17This morning, the British ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final note,

00:25stating that unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock,

00:31that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland,

00:36a state of war would exist between us.

00:41I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received,

00:47and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

00:55Could Hitler have been stopped?

01:06Could the Second World War have been prevented by bolder and more assertive action?

01:13Need Britain to afford the Second World War at all?

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