Posted on 02/06/2008 11:32:13 AM PST by ventanax5
One day after this report was submitted, however, German troops marched into the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland. In a spectacular move that fully exposed the weakness of the western democracies, Hitler could celebrate his greatest triumph in foreign policy to date. The domestic problems of previous months — shortage of foodstuffs, high prices, low wages and, in Catholic areas, much antagonism towards the regime over the struggle between the church and state were temporarily forgotten in the euphoria.
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If the French had marched then, no Hitler. Too bad.
Replace Catholic areas with Mormon areas and right now you would have a dozen hysterical posts saying how dare Mormons be mentioned.
“If the French had marched then, no Hitler. Too bad.”
The French stayed behind the Maginot Line because they felt safe there. They know how it would have turned out if the Germans had caught them out in the open, but it would have brought Poland and England into the war sooner.
Brings to mind...
How do we know that the Vietnamese didn’t implant a chip in McCain’s head. He was a prisoner and under their absolute control for a number of years.
It might be safest to avoid a communist future to avoid McCain.
Also,the Germans had taken measures to inflate the numbers of troops that the French thought were present, marching in during the day, sneaking back out at night, and making a big show when they marched back in.
Here is a German guy that loved his grandather.
Andreas Gora Cathedral Bagpipe The Flowers of the Forest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by7v8pMNg6Q
Its the Germans who would have been caught out in the open. Setting aside the Soviet Union, for which good numbers are hard to come by, in 1936 the French had the largetst army, the largest artillery corps, the largest tank force, and the the largest airforce in the world. Hitler had begun a huge expansion program, but it wasn't very along in 1936.
The German Generals were shaking their boots at the thought of a couple of million French soldiers, and all of that gear, heading their way. The German troops that marched into the Rhineland had very strict orders that they were to march back the way they had come if the sighted any French troops. A single caporal-chef and a squad of infantry would have sent the German Army back.
Scary how history is going to repeat itself and here in the cradle of freedom.
In 1936, Adolf Hitler decided to test the will of the Allies by invading the demilitarized Rhineland between France and Germany in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Since the relatively weak German army was in no condition to face off against the then much more powerful French army, he sent in a few battalions. He had instructed his commanders to retreat should they meet any resistance.
There was an anti-Hitler movement in Germany at that time led by the former chief of the German general staff, Ludwig Beck. Beck and his fellow co-conspirators were planning on the Allies enforcing the requirements of the Versailles Treaty and forcibly ejecting the German army. This would give them the cover they needed to arrest Hitler in a coup de tat, possibly ending the Hitler régime, averting World War II and saving 53 million lives. But Hitler’s successful coup in the Rhineland and Allies spinelessness only enhanced his popularity almost the German people and nullified the plot against him.
Flash foreward to today. Saddam Hussein violated the armistice that he signed when he lost the Gulf War in 1991, the part that required him to allow United Nations weapons inspectors unfettered access. We now know that Saddam Hussein intended to continue to try to obtain weapons of mass destruction, another violation of the armistice, and that George Bush’s actions against Saadam may have prevented another conflagration on the scale of a World War III.
But maybe we are fortunate that George Bush was made of sterner stuff than the Frech Prime Minister, Albert Sarraut.
As I recall, the Nazi & fascist leaders of that era were Roman Catholic to a man...... I don’t belive any were mormon!
Effectively banned smoking and implemented gun control.
Effectively banned smoking and implemented gun control.
So help me, the documentary images of German women indulging in orgasmic swoons before Der Fuhrer remind me of the current unthinking and unreasoning fawning over Barack Hussein Obama. Not that the two men are similar, they are of course hugely different, but the reaction to them by their faithful following is eerily alike. They spout gaseous platitudes and their flocks just faint away or click their heels.
Keep in mind that France was going through their own political turbulence during this same period of time. Leon Blum, the prime minister in 1936-37, was a Marxist who was always concerned about a civil war in France, and he later spent much of World War II in prison — both in France and in Germany.
It is true and it’s completely insane..
Because in those days it would have been rather difficult to hide a huge discrete-transistor and mechanical relay device inside the human brain. Besides, the noise from the waist mounted diesel power pack would have been a dead giveaway.
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