Chamberlain's strategy of turning Germany eastwards to destroy Soviet Union - What is your opinion?

My opinion is you should avoid reading books by conspiracy theorists.

 

If there was a strategy to turn Hitler to the East,destroying the Soviet Union -and this strategy did not exist-it would have been suicidal for Britain :If Hitler won,if Stalin won-what happened -Central and Eastern Europe would be occupied by the Soviet Union,and Western Europe could stay free only with the help of the USA -what has happen -and Western Europe would become a American dominion-what happened -and the British Empire would disappear-what .....

 

Well from the posts a real can of worms got opened lol. Chamberlain may have done some or all of this but it was nothing more than diplomatic maneuvering or perhaps an example of so-called "Byzantine politics", the likes of which goes on daily all over the world. From what you say and what some of the other people say he was merely calling in favors, asking for new ones, trying to manipulate one against the other. Britain was just doing exactly as all the other countries were desperately trying to do, in order to avoid bloodshed and save their countries from Hitler and/or the Russian communists.

(National alliances change constantly, sometimes overnight, as even a casual study of history shows. Look at the USA and Britain. 1776, Enemies. Before 1812, Neutral. 1812, enemies again. 1914 to present, allied.)

If what you say is actually based on fact (im not questioning you just your source) it reveals that Chamberlain was probably spending alot of time graspin at straws in an effort to deter Hitler from attacking Britain or at least buy some more time to prepare for war.

Everyone remembers the famous camera footage of Chamberlain holding the signed pact with Hitler, waving the worthless piece of paper in the breeze as if they were the words of the Lord himself. Chamberlain may have looked ridiculous in hindsight and probably realized it, but he was no fool - at the time Hitler signed the paper, Britain was not ready for war and Chamberlain knew it. By the time Hitler attacked Poland in September 1939, the British "chain home" raider was in place, Spitfire fighter planes were coming off production lines in significant quantities, and British industry was well on its way to preparing for total war. A year earlier, this was not the case.

In the end, Chamberlain must have mulled over many courses of action just like the one you describe, but the real strategy of getting Britain ready for possible war always underlay all of them.

 

The major problem with this theory is the fact that Britain signed a treaty with Poland in March 1939 guaranteeing her borders with Germany, something the doesn't make any sense if the goal of the British government was to turn Germany eastwards.