Stopping Hitler

2017

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After the unprecedented death and devastation of the First World War, few people imagined that such a conflict could ever happen again. In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, it was expected that international disputes could be settled by arbitration through the creation of League of Nations. Consequently, the British Government concluded that there would not be another war for a least ten years and therefore the country's armed forces could be scaled back. The rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s, however, prompted politicians and generals to contemplate the prospect of another world war. The Chiefs of Staff of the three Defence Services were instructed to bring Britain's armed forces up to a standard where they could resist a powerful aggressor, and to put in place plans for the defence of the country. This work reproduces these plans.