Why?

Hitler knew that the British would declare war. Right after the invasion began, the British even gave him an ultimatum that said so in no uncertain terms.
A clear look at the grand strategic situation would have revealed that Germany had no means to knock Britain out of the war and was unlikely to develop such means soon enough to make a difference. Germany would be going to war without a way to physically occupy or destroy Britain, and so would have to hope that the British would at some point decide to sue for peace - something they were not known to do much of, historically - despite being unoccupied. There was no reasonable hope of beating the British at sea and no real reason to think they could be beaten in the air either.
It also should have been obvious that there was a decent chance the US might intervene on the Allied side.

Why the fuck did he decide to do it anyway?

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He had already gotten away with remilitarizement and annexing austria and czechoslovakia - why think anyone was going to do anything about it this time? And besides, Hitler wasn't exactly one for any information that might run contrary to his wishes.

The difference was that the British gave him an ultimatum right after the invasion of Poland began. In the ultimatum, the British explicitly said that unless the invasion was immediately called off, a state of war would exist between Britain and Germany. Hitler should have known this meant that the Poland crisis was more serious than the previous crises had been.

First to connect with his Soviet allies and secure food, resources and oil from them.
Secondly he did not expect Western Allies to really declare war against him.
All his previous bluffs works perfectly, so this time it should work too.

>Secondly he did not expect Western Allies to really declare war against him.
But again, the British ultimatum... it's not like the British were going to declare war and then undeclare it. Hitler had a window of time on the day of the invasion, several hours long, in which he knew that the British would declare war if he did not cancel the invasion, and so he had the means to prevent the war if he wanted to. But he decided that the invasion would continue.

Britain OKed occupation of kekkoslovakia, Hitler thought theyd be ok with Poland too. Even when it was not ok the "allies" did fuck all to help poles so it was reasonable to think theyd be out of the war when theres nothing to gain.

Göring guaranteed to beat the RAF easily, which was obviously not the case.

They also "forgot" british policy of "there can be no mainland hegemony" and with the Reich being ally of the USSR from british point of view coupled with italian ambition in Africa, they stayed.
Quite a rookie mistake but what can you expect from a government which have a wine trader for a foreign minister without any higher education.

>Why the fuck did he decide to do it anyway?
Something something Germanic brotherhood. He expected the primarily Germanic-descended USA to be against him from the start because it was 3% Jewish, 5% Slavic, 1% Asian, 5-10% Mediterranean, ~5% mestizo, and 10% black ("Jewish-ruled negrofied mongrels" he called them). But he didn't expect fellow pure Germanics to resist him so stubbornly, not when they had a common enemy of the Judeo-Slavs right next door.

The longer answer was that Hitler was literally incapable of thinking of any future that didn't involve war with the rest of the continent. He saw the world as a competition of the races in which Germany had to exterminate or subjugate the opposition. Hjalmar Schacht figure this out when he tried telling Adolf that rearmament was retarded and would collapse their economy- Hitler wasn't a rational actor, he was 100% devoted to turning the world into a survival of the fittest environment of constant war.

well maybe he assumed that brits and french wont do shit even if war is declared. He wanted france in the first place after all so peace with them never was an option. When hes done with french he wanted to force brits to submission by bombarding/raiding convoys so they will be more willing to accept peace.

The thing is, Hitler was Hitler - he generally just dismissed any information or idea that didn't fit what he wanted and went ahead with his plans anyway. Sure he had an ultimatum and an new anti appeasement UK PM this time, but given the choice to sit down and consider that the situation may have changed or say fuck it they're just bluffing and go ahead with your plans anyway, Hitler always chose the later.

>Hitler thought theyd be ok with Poland too.
Yet again, the question is why did he ignore the ultimatum? What the British had said and done before should have been seen by the Germans as relatively irrelevant on September 1, 1939, since on that day the British gave Germany a clear ultimatum saying that a state of war would exist within several hours if the invasion was not called off. Why was the ultimatum ignored?

>Judeo-Slavs

Hitler saw the USSR as a Jewish Empire ruling over intellectually-handicapped Slavic fodder. He thought of the Russian Empire in similar terms, except in that case the ruling class was German. Either way, he thought the Slavs were too dumb to accomplish anything on their own.

Mobilization mean war.
He fully mobilized his army and put it on the border. Sooner or later somebody will shoot and war would start anyway.
Of course he was conflicted when UK give guarantees to Poland but he was it like he was caught in process of pissing. Hard to stop before finishing.

Funny how his views changed when the Slavs were marching to his capital.

Because Germany was at the highest point it had vis-à-vis the British and French it ever would be. The British and French were remilitarizing and making up for the gap of the Germans having re-armed earlier than them. Give another year, and Germany's military advantage over them would have evaporated : give another two, and Germany would have been seriously outpaced
1939 was the time when Germany had the highest probability of winning a war if it attacked, and to not attack would mean that they would always be stuck as a relatively small continental nation, preyed on (in their minds) by the anglo-saxons/jews
and thus they attacked

British capability of waging war on the continent, british willingness to go to war for Poland

lets not pretend britain single handedly defeated the nazis, their ultimatum had no backing

OP here. To clarify, I was wrong to say that the ultimatum was delivered on September 1. On September 1 the British gave the Germans a warning, as follows:

September 1:
"
On the instructions of His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, I have the honour to make the following communication:-
Early this morning the German Chancellor issued a proclamation to the German army which indicated clearly that he was about to attack Poland.
Information which has reached His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and the French Government indicates that German troops have crossed the Polish frontier and that attacks upon Polish towns are proceeding.
In these circumstances, it appears to the Governments of the United Kingdom and France that by their action the German Government have created conditions (viz., an aggressive act of force against Poland threatening the independence of Poland) which call for the implementation by the Governments of the United Kingdom and France of the undertaking to Poland to come to her assistance.
I am accordingly to inform your Excellency that unless the German Government are prepared to give His Majesty’s Government satisfactory assurances that the German Government have suspended all aggressive action against Poland and are prepared promptly to withdraw their forces from Polish territory, His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom will without hesitation fulfil their obligations to Poland.
"

Cont.
Then, on September 3 came the ultimatum, which came with a time deadline. This is the point at which Hitler should have been clear about what would happen if he did not cancel the invasion.

September 3:
"
PLEASE seek interview with Minister for Foreign Affairs at 9 a. m. to-day, Sunday or, if he cannot see you then, arrange to convey at that time to representative of German Government the following communication:-
"In the communication which I had the honour to make to you on 1st September I informed you, on the instructions of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that, unless the German Government were prepared to give His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom satisfactory assurances that the German Government had suspended all aggressive action against Poland and were prepared promptly to withdraw their forces from Polish territory, His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom would, without hesitation, fulfil their obligations to Poland.
"Although this communication was made more than twenty-four hours ago, no reply has been received but German attacks upon Poland have been continued and intensified. I have accordingly the honour to inform you that, unless not later than 11 a. m., British Summer Time, to-day 3rd September, satisfactory assurances to the above effect have been given by the German Government and have reached His Majesty's Government in London, a state of war will exist between the two countries as from that hour."
If the assurance referred to in the above communication is received, you should inform me by any means at your disposal before 11 a. m. to-day, 3rd September. If no such assurance is received here by 11 a. m. , we shall inform the German representative that a state of war exists as from that hour.
"

If Hitler ignored the British ultimatum because he thought war was inevitable one way or another, then the question is this: why did he think that war was inevitable? To me it seems clear that neither Britain nor France wanted war.

Hitler was just fucking delusional and egoistical.

He always over estimated himself and his country and didn't want to believe anything that would go against his plans. He always augured with his generals, for example wanted to invade France in late 1939 instead of 1940 even being told it was a horrible idea iirc but fortunately for him he was convinced to postpone it (correct me if I'm wrong on this).

Who eats lunch in the evening?

>backing down

To be fair, wouldn’t you?

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he thought he had a pretty good chance and he did for a while, he just underestimated the armament capabilities of the USSR and US. Hindsight is 20/20.

>and no real reason to think they could be beaten in the air either.

except "yeah we were 24 hours away from destruction, luckily dumb krautnigs decided to bomb london instead" t. the RAF

also hitler just wanted a peace deal with britain or a truce rather than expecting to defeat them.

one of the best hitler vids

hitler underestimated british jewishness ability to turn situations into a world war when they really shouldn't have been i.e. ww1 and ww2

is this 1945 cuck posting?

>idea that didn't fit what he wanted and went ahead

memes, he listened to his generals at numerous points, mostly if they had offensive plans he ideologically hated going backwards or retreats which is where this meme comes from

This, it's basically faggots explaining
>A-all of my failures are Hitler's fault!

I read once that at this point they had no choice but to start a war, because gigantic military spending would have collapse the economy if they couldn't drain other countries.

Also, they knew that they only have 1-2 years of military/technological advantage, after that western powers would catch up and beat them very easily.

, can anyone comment on that?