start World War Two. The British and French did. Germany tried repeatedly to resolve the Danzig corridor issue peacefully with the Poles. The Polish ruling junta, emboldened by their British ;guarantee`, responded with atrocities against citizens of German descent in Poland. Exasperated, Germany invaded,. There would have been no British guarantee without enormous American pressure from Roosevelt, who then sat back for years as American industrialists and financiers profited from British desperation. Everything Britain bought from the US in those first few years was paid for in gold. After Britain was bankrupted she signed away her shipping routes to the US and began the process of losing her Empire. The last, vital loan issued to her (for $1 billion dollars) by Bernard Baruch and his Wall Street cronies was callable instantly with repayment in gold. That put Britain on the US leash for decades! Baruch, Roosevelt`s top advisor, virtually owned Churchill, too! - John White, Toronto, Canada, 25/3/2012 11:39===Thank you John for your excellent item about POW camps and especially your reference to Eisenhower's death camps. I have read many eye witness accounts of this conveniently forgotten episode of history and until we remember and acknowledge the awful retaliation meted out to the enemies we shall never progress as human beings. One-sided propaganda has been allowed to write history for far too long.