Wouldn't future historians (perhaps suffering from hindsight bias) judge us to be idiots for ignoring clear and repeated threats from a nuclear-armed government that appeared crazy (map doesn't match territory) and obsessed with war.
Why do we care what they think, and can you name previous examples of this?
As someone who studies lots of history while often thinking, "how could they have been this stupid didn't they know what would happen?", I thought it useful to frame the question this way.
Hitler's professed intentions were not taken seriously by many.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.