WHAT IS HITLER UP TO? A FRANTIC EUROPE ASKS (3/19/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 3/19/39 | P.J. Philip

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

From “News of the Week in Review.”

[Larry Lucido]

I’m sure he’s gone as far as he wants an presents no further threat. Maybe we can start a dialogue with some moderate nazis.

[The Sons of Liberty]

WHAT IS HITLER 0bama UP TO? A FRANTIC EUROPE ASKS

[Twinkie]

“I’m sure he’s gone as far as he wants and presents no further threat. Maybe we can start a dialogue with some moderate nazis.”

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. Your observation is timely. Too bad Obama wasn’t around back then.

[dfwgator]

All Hitler wants is Peace....Peace....Peace....

A little piece of Poland,
A little piece of France,
A little piece of Austria
And Hungary, perchance!
A little slice of Turkey
And all that that entails,
And then a bit of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales!

[CougarGA7]

The author sure saw Memmel comming. That will be his last conquest before war.

[mick]

And just like that cartoon........he will not know when to stop....and like Nap. and Hit., he will be detroyed.

[CheneyChick]

George Santayana (1863-1952):

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Poles had gained Teschen by their shameful attitude towards the liquidation of the Czechoslovak State. They were soon to pay their own forfeits. On March 21, when Ribbentrop saw M. Lipski, the Polish Ambassador in Berlin, he adopted a sharper tone than in previous discussions. The occupation of Bohemia and the creation of satellite Slovakia brought the German Army to the southern frontiers of Poland. Lipski told Ribbentrop that the Polish man-in-the-street could not understand why the Reich had assumed the protection of Slovakia, that protection being directed against Poland. He also inquired about the recent conversations between Ribbentrop and the Lithuanian Foreign Minister. Did they affect Memel? He received his answer two days later (March 23). German troops occupied Memel.

Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

3/21/39 update at #10.

[steelyourfaith]

thanx

[PAR35]

As they say in the song:

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält.
Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
Von der Etsch bis an den Belt,
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt! :|

[beebuster2000]

another great post. fan of yours

[Billthedrill]

A BTT. Six months later they got their answer.

[GreenLanternCorps]

IIRC the NAZIs did not like Deutchland uber Alles as it was a “liberal” nationalist song from the pre-Empire German unification movement (about the time of the 1848 revolutions).

It does however call for a united Germany that would cover all of Central Europe from the Baltic to the Adriatic.

I did find this English translation on the ‘net.

1. Germany, Germany above all
Above everything in the world
When, always, for protection and defense
Brothers stand together.
From the Maas to the Memel
From the Etsch to the Belt,
Germany, Germany above all
Above all in the world.

2. German women, German fidelity,
German wine and German song,
Shall retain, throughout the world,
Their old respected fame,
To inspire us to noble deeds
For the length of our lives.
German women, German fidelity,
German wine and German song.

3. Unity and right and freedom
For the German Fatherland;
Let us all strive to this goal
Brotherly, with heart and hand.
Unity and rights and freedom
Are the pledge of fortune grand.
Prosper in this fortune’s glory,
Prosper German fatherland.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Too bad Obama wasn’t around back then.

He'd have told FDR to send Hitler a movie of him asking for peace...

...that would've been incompatible with German projectors.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

He'd have told FDR to send Hitler a movie of him asking for peace...

In about three weeks FDR will appeal to Hitler asking him nicely not to invade any countries in Europe for ten years. He will do it by letter instead of a video, but it will amount to the same thing.

[BroJoeK]

Interesting to note, the writer of this piece imagines British businessmen wanting Germany to dominate central Europe, in order to bring them political stability and the possibility of prosperity.

Well, I doubt if this is really true, since very few Brits would have economic interests in Central Europe which could outweigh their sense of the strategic dangers from German military conquests.

But, what's obvious is that, even in early 1939, no one as yet appreciated the full horrors soon to be unleashed.

[CougarGA7]

The speech Hitler gave on Roosevelt’s letter had the Reichstag laughing. Ironically as Hitler read the letter he conveinently left out Poland.