Churchill wanted Hitler sent to the electric chair

The Sunday Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1/1/2006 | Chris Hastings

[1066AD]

Churchill, like "W" today, understood the stakes.

[Williams]

I see nothing shocking in the things Churchill considered, if one is aware of the times. Hitler was bent on wiping out England and teh rest of the Western democracies. He almost succeeded. And indeed Hitler was the epitome of evil. Did the Nuremberg trials really make a difference?

[NormsRevenge]

Just one more reason he deserves to be remembered as the Man of the 20th Century, imo.

Bruised and battered, he arose from the ashes of defeat to battle and beat sworn enemies.

For that, we can all be grateful.

[Zeroisanumber]

That's a lot nicer than me, I'd have wanted Hitler sent to the woodchipper.

[Marine_Uncle]

Winston was a man of honor. Historians mostly have treated him with kindness, as is right so. God placed him in the right place at the right time. To think otherwise would be folly. It would be hard to see who else would have better served the British during those long dark days. And where he had no delusions about Stalin, Roosevelt fell short.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Never Give an Inch ........ how could you not love the man if you love liberty and western democracy?

[Sociopathocracy]

Today, Hitler would be defended by Ramsey Clark. CNN would be showing portraying the Nazis as as freedom fighters and explaining the feelings of "the German Street". Bund members would be seen as troubled people torn between their homeland and the country they live in.

The MSM is a problem, a big problem.

[muawiyah]

Reading through that I wonder what the writer's motives are. Did he want us to feel sorry for Hitler and to despise Churchill? Sure seems that way.

I guess the new wave of anti-Semitism in Europe has given birth to a pro-Nazi press right there in England.

[clee1]

I'd have sent him to the "shower"; then to the oven.

[BenLurkin]

Exellent idea . . . they could have sold tickets.

These days we can sell Obama bin Ladin on pay per view when he takes the needle.

[Larry Lucido]

But what if he had written a children's book and warned kids about joining future Hitler Youth gangs?

[RichInOC]

California was using the cyanide gas chamber by then. I'm sure they'd have gladly have accommodated Hitler if Winnie had known to ask. That said...I think the suicide thing worked out just fine.

[Ciexyz]

This will be the English speaking century.

He was right on that one.

[grimalkin]

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." -- Winston Churchill

God bless Mr. Churchill.

[TexasTransplant]

>>>"Churchill, like "W" today, understood the stakes"<<<

I only hope that fifty-one percent of us understand.

We have lost our Leaders... shy of 51% the only thing left is rebellion, protest etc etc etc MSM won't / can't / doesn't care about the Country or us, our elected Representatives have become such a spineless bowl of jelly and yet still get re-elected, so without 51 percent we are screwed.

I never want to live like the PETA, MADD, or FOE disciples so I just have to have faith in the 51%.
Or I just Hope that our Leadership can Evolve a Spine, learn how to Lead or find new employment, any one of which would improve the future.
TT

[tet68]

Did the Nuremberg trials really make a difference?



One has to keep in mind that the Nuremburg trials were
in themselves an unusual event, nothing like that had
ever been done before.

[Soul Seeker]

It has to smart to when they read Churchill and make the connections in their own minds to G.W.B. There are similarities, too many even for a Liberal to be blind to no matter how full of hate they may be for our President. I suspect the tone of the piece frames the arthor's mind as this unsettling comparison is made, resulting in the dim view of Churchill's thoughts and expressws wish in the article he would have regretted it had he done so.

[F16Fighter]

Churchill was equally dismissive of Gen Charles de Gaulle, one of Britain's closest allies, who he believed suffered from "an insensate ambition" and who was the "greatest living barrier to re-union and restoration of France".

Speaking of electric chairs...

[voteconstitutionparty]

Adolph's Meat Tenderizer

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