“… since Britain is one of just two European powers that has nukes, and no one with even a cursory knowledge of history will allow that Germany should get its own, a large share of this responsibility clearly falls to us.” Juliet Samuel in “The Times”
What an absolutely astonishing insult to modern Germany. I have a rather more than cursory “knowledge of history” and because of that I understand and welcome the post war creation of democratic West Germany and the achievement of its reunification with East Germany after 1989.
The implication that the horrors of German governance in the first half of the Twentieth Century were in some way a consequence of a malignancy in the German character is deeply offensive. The Great War was the death rattle of Empire – something we Brits know a lot about. Imperialism was certainly not a teutonic phenomenon! And the rise of Hitler and his evil dictatorship was a grotesque political reaction to economic trauma.
The coming to power in previously democratic states of unsuitable and/or malignant leaders has happened all too frequently – and is happening now in the United States. I would certainly prefer to be allied with a Germany with its finger on a Nuclear button than Donald Trump!
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