The Fourth Reich

When the Second World War ended in 1945, imagine the conversation amongst the leading lights of West Germany's leaders.

After several attempts, military domination of Europe was shown to be impossible, doomed by Germany's central position to always fight wars on two fronts against collectively superior forces.

What should be the methods to achieve the Germans' long standing objectives of prosperity for their own people. If military domination and plunder were no longer possible, then perhaps peaceful economic domination could be achieved. But how?

There are some problems with this premise, right from the start:

There was no West Germany at the end of World War II. There were four occupation zones, basically: a British, a French, an American, and a Russian zone, along with a Berlin divided similarly, surrounded by the Russian zone. The combination of the zones of the three western allies became West Germany later.

The European Union has grown from an imposition on a defeated Germany, designed to keep them from rising again. If it failed to do that, count it as another failure among its many, or count it as the success of values that favor hard work and intelligence over values that favor smoking Gauloises and dreaming of eating soft cheese and fruit with the neighbor’s spouse.

The European Union began as a coal agreement between France and Germany to replace the French idea of annexing Germany’s Saarland directly into France, after Britain objected to the annexation, remembering what happened the last time France insisted on these kind of reparations.

I think you’re missing the forest for the trees.

The particular details of the hisotrical divisions is a separate issue from the goals of those who create and manipulate such political divisions. The article is about those “powers that be” interested in creating a dominating Germany, who are merely looking for a viable mechanism.

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