The military historian, Bevin Alexander wrote How Hitler could have Won World War II, the fatal errors that led to the Nazi defeat. One of Hitler's errors was to assume that Britain was relying upon the USSR for aid. "Hitler concluded that the only way to overcome Britain would be to destroy the Soviet Union. Hitler decided that Russia was Britain's chief remaining hope for assistance, its 'continental dagger,' and once the Soviet Union was destroyed, the British would see reason and give in. "This, of course, was entirely wrong. The British were relying on the United States, not Russia, for their salvation. 'I shall drag the United States in,' British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told his son after France fell. And the American president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was doing everything he could to help. But Roosevelt had to play a cagey game. A majority of the American electorate was deathly afraid of getting into another war in Europe, and wanted to isolate the country behind its two oceans. Only a minority recognized the terrible danger of Adolf Hitler and realized the United States would have to enter the war if Nazi Germany was to be defeated." Comment: When I read this it occurred to me that nearly all of the American Lit-Ideas, could they have been transported back in time, would have been in the majority that opposed "another war in Europe." The "majority" didn't study foreign affairs in 1933-39 any more than the majority does today. They didn't know that Hitler was a monster. He hadn't done anything very monstrous as far as Americans knew. Sure, some things were said about him and his Nazis but things were being said about Roosevelt as well. Why should America risk the lives of its young men to bail Britain out of its European troubles? Question: I think Eric and I have enough bone fides to indicate that we would have been in the American minority that "recognized the terrible danger of Adolf Hitler." After all we now "recognize the terrible danger of" Islamism and so would very likely be of a mind to recognize the danger of Hitler. But what of the rest of you American Lit-Idears? Is there any evidence that you would have been in the minority that "recognized the terrible danger of Adolf Hitler"? I tend to think that there isn't. Lawrence