If you have an interest in WW2, and it sounds like you do, you have to listen to this. This professor has been studying WW1, the rise of Hitler and WW2 for years, wrote a book and came to the same conclusion:


Here's a summary:
In the first 50 years of the 20th century witness Britains determination to annihilate the threat of German hegemony on the continental landmass. The British Empire feared that a possible merger of the German Reich with the Russian Czarist Empire might have given birth to a much greater Eurasian alliance. A fastness in the heart of Eurasia would of attracted in its orbit men, resources and geographical advantages in such numbers that it would have threatened and eventually foiled British imperial domination across the world. To prevent such an alliance Britain embarked upon an extraordinary feat of aggression which began with the great war 1914-1918, this act followed up by the 15 year long incubation of Hitlerism which Britain would eventually need to set up Germany and the 2 front world conflict that would have sanctioned the erasure of the German rivalry once and for all.