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If this had happened, WW2 would not have happened. Germany offered peace terms after the invasion of Poland. France and UK told them to pound sand (encouraged by FDR). They sued for peace again after the invasion of France / driving the British expeditionary force back across the channel. Shit only dialed up to 11 after the Soviets seeing Germany beginning to fall into a quagmire, started preparing an invasion of Europe.
Great Britain had made a secret deal with Poland to instigate a war against Germany. Check out this link that has lots of info on this:
https://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/wrsynopsis.html
Britain wanted a war with Germany, and used Poland as a useful idiot to do it. Even if Poland instigated the war, Britain would ally with Poland against Germany. Poland was extremely hostile to the German people living within its newly created borders. Before the end of WW1, all of that land belonged to Germany (then called Prussia), and most of those Germans had lived there for hundreds, if not over one thousand years (many millions of them). The Poles had begun to exterminate the ethnic Germans. Poland had attacked Germany multiple times, openly bragged they could defeat Germany on their own, and openly gave out their invasion plans for Germany. This is what precipitated Germany's invasion of Poland.
However, since Britain didn't give a shit about Poland, Britain only declared war against Germany, but not against Soviet Russia, which invaded Poland at the exact same time. Weird.
I swear to God, even as someone who like to challenge the orthodox narrative, this has never occurred to me. I mean I know Britain didn't declare war against USSR in response to their invasion of Poland, the magnitude of the disparate response is ... interesting.
See the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact for how well peace treaties with Germany worked out
There is ample evidence that Barbarossa was in response to an impending Soviet invasion, the English language wiki is more critical of the idea than sources from outside the Anglosphere.
This is backed up by Stalin's comments about the peace being temporary.
I'm sure Stalin was up to something, but blitzing all the way to Moscow isn't the kind of plan you just make up in a few months.
It can be. Barbarossa has always been a head scratcher for professional and amateur historians alike. By all accounts Germany was outmanned and out gunned going into the offensive. The traditional, and pretty unsatisfactory, explanation is that Hitler was a madman bent on world domination. Suvelov's proposal of a desperate preemptive strike makes a lot more sense. As to why Germany made it as far as they did; if the Soviets were posturing for offence, striking first gave Germany a chance. An army preparing for invasion is organized completely different from one preparing for defense; most of Soviet war materiel was at the front line and once they lost that they were at a severe disadvantage for some time.
I'm sure you'd be saying the same thing if roles were changed, right? Look, I get that WW2 is much more complicated than the history they try to sell us, I'm not cucking for The Narrative or anything. But switch things around. If you're American, imagine they'd invaded Mexico, or Canada, or even somewhere in South America, then asked for peace. We also would have told them to pound sand. It's one thing not to get involved, it's another to legitimize the violent expansion of a rival. It's easy to say they should have accepted peace, but there's a very real concern that that peace wasn't offered in good faith, and they'd be next.
No matter how you feel about the stunning and brave national socialists, I can see why European powers weren't interested in playing nice. And other foreign powers using underhanded tactics to take out sovereign countries isn't great either. Too bad it's so popular, even today, but that's another matter.
Another thing that comes to mind is Neville Chamberlain's "peace in our time!"
Edit: meant to respond to u/Kienan
I can both criticize the evils of the Nazi regime and claim that the unilateral -- and not uncontroversial at the time -- UK/France defense pacts with Poland were the primary cause of the broader Second World War. The modern equivalent of Halifax's agreement with Poland would have been Victoria Nuland creating an agreement with Ukraine that obligated the US to put troops on the ground in the event of a Russian invasion, without the approval of congress.
The history of the Free City of Danzing and the German population of Poland should be understood here. In Danzing, Germans were being deprived of rights and property under the Polish government, a situation that accelerated after Halifax's agreement with Poland. Why not ethnically cleans Germans if Britain will come to your aid if Germany tries to prevent it?