Does Frau Merkel celebrate the Fall of the Wall?
I must agree, though, that World War II has almost erased World War I from memory.
The “War To End All Wars” ended ...
at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
Most people have heard of “All Quiet on the Western Front”,
but most do not know of the companion volume “The Road Back”. Kind of a sequel or alternative ending.
In it the hero survives the war and has to deal with the
return to post war Germany. PTSD, speculators, the rise
of the Freicorps. Even a war dog with PTSD.
I was lucky enough to find both wrapped together at a
flea market.
I believe there was even a movie made of it.
That would be the
International Socialists (Communists sponsored by Bolsheviks in Russia) and the
National Socialists (Nazis sponsored in large part by disgruntled German soldiers who thought they had been stabbed in the back by Judeo-Bolshevism).
Historically you can draw an almost straight line from Napoleon defeating the Holy Roman Empire (Pre-Germany, Germany)to the Franco-Prussian War to WW1 to WW2.
The roots of 1939 stretch all the back to 1805
Today's Germany mourns 1) and 3), but cheers 2).
Buddy’s leaving day after tomorrow for Belgium. His son is spending a school year studying in Austria and travelling around Europe. He’s gonna meet his son in Ypres Wednesday night so they can join in the activities for the Day of Remembrance.
“100th Anniversary of World War I to be marked in London and Paris, not Berlin”
Well.....yeah?
Somehow I dont think Vinnena will be shooting off fireworks either.
“For Germany, the Nov. 11 armistice did not mean peace like it did in France and Britain.”
The Brits committed a mass murder by enforcing a starvation naval blockade against German ports for about 8 months after the war. The low estimate is that 100,000 civilians died. The poverty lead to the street fighting.
Even worse, the British and French retribution in the Armistice was a primary causal factor of the failure of the Weimar republic and the rise of the 3rd reich. The demands for immense financial reparations was one of the big reasons Weimar Germany began unleashing the printing presses. It’s aftermath lead to the cold war.
WWI and the crazed loons of Europe’s handling of it is the primary cause of most of the misery in the world today. From the middle east and Saudi Arabia, to the Germans sending Lenin into Russia, to the ascendance of the Progressives here in the USA, to the creation of an FBI, to WWII macro and micro, to the utterly disrespectful treatment of the Japanese ally at Versailles, the beginning of debasement from gold into fiat currencies, the unleashing of Soviet communism... you name it. It all came from the aftermath of WWI.
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel will mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I on French soil”
Which is appropriate since the German surrender in WW1 was also on French soil.
World War I ended in 1945. There was just a 21 year intermission. Ferdinand Foch was only off by one year.
It seems to me that all of Europe should be on their knees and bowing to the West to show homage to the good ol’ U.S. of A. for bailing them out the first time!
Ungrateful, fatherless children which they are!
What little I know about WWI suggests to me that it was at least as ugly as WWII...and maybe even uglier.
Why should anyone remember that war except for the stupidity of it and the hubris of the world leaders who started it? What a colossal waste of human life!
I think any civil people remember history but do not hold in higher esteem the negatives. They cherish and celebrate the positives. They hold no grudges and welcome positive change.
Germany has done much for the modern world. Their technological inventions and their people that contributed worldwide are to be celebrated.
The idiots dooming Germany to socialism and invasion ought to shot. Yes, I am still being civil. I didn’t say drawn and quartered.
The Imperial Germans were anti-Semitic, but they were smart enough to know that German Jews were just as patriotic and would contribute to their nation.
Because the Nazis were so arrogant, they drove away potential allies (such as the Ukrainians and White Russians). The Germans who did escape the Nazis became valuable to the Allies.
The Germans wanted to get payback for what the Allies did in WW I. However, the Generals wanted to wait until they were fully mechanized and had equipment and personnel required to win a war...they wanted to start the war around 1943-44.
The Nazis lost WW II on September 1, 1939.
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