Sorry, but Churchill’s words show two things:
a) he was truly a master of the succinct, and
b) he hated the German people all his life. No way around it.
I guess he would be delighted if he saw Germany now: on its last legs and overrun by enemies, after having lost one third of her territory and between 6 and 7 million of her people.
However, I have a hunch he would be none too pleased with the situation in present-day Britain (or the USA, for that matter).
But that’s the one thing he and I could whole-heartedly agree on. Indeed.
Furthermore, the problems both the US and Britain are faced with show many similarities to the situation in Germany (and many other Western nations).
Clearly, they are not as deep in the morass, but maybe just for now - I am not too optimistic a person :-(
I’m a paranoid schizophrenic. But I’m an optimist!
He once said “If Hitler invaded Hell I'd side with the Devil
himself!’’ which certainly bears out your point that he was clearly didn't like Germany.
My reservations about him were that he delighted when we were attacked at Pearl Harbor because he knew then America was in the war.
I had family members who barely survived two wars fighting for Britain. While not a strict Anglophobe nor an Anglophile over all I'm not fond of the Brits.
They still tend to think of us as a colony.
Guess as I get old I get more taciturn. I work in a hospital chock full of immigrants from every crap hole on the planet including Western and Eastern Europe.
Quite frankly I don't care for any of them. I wish we could go back to pre-1965 levels of immigration, 300,000 a year.
Now we take in a million people a year. No nation on Earth does this. Why do we?