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Posted on 12/27/2025 10:43:47 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Mervyn Kersh is proud of his country, and of the role he played in helping to defeat the Nazis in the Second World War.
But the soon-to-be 101-year-old Jewish D-Day veteran, who also witnessed the horrors of the newly-liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, is not proud of what he sees as the current state of the nation.
Speaking to the Daily Mail from his comfortable home in north London, Mervyn is despondent about modern Britain and the myriad crises it faces.
He goes as far as saying that victory over Adolf Hitler was a 'waste of time', adding that the country has gone 'right downhill.'
The veteran, who was awarded France's prestigious Legion d'Honneur in 2015 and has also been lauded by former prime minister Boris Johnson for his efforts reaching out to young people, now lives alone after the death of his wife Betty in 2018.
Incredibly, her twin sister Esta married Mervyn's brother Cyril. The two couples were inseparable for decades, before Cyril's passing in 2014.
Mervyn is speaking out just weeks after fellow veteran Alec Penstone, 100, stunned the presenters of ITV show Good Morning Britain when he said the sacrifice of the lost men of his generation 'wasn't worth' it.
He added to stunned presenters Adil Ray and Kate Garraway: 'What we fought for was our freedom, but now it's a darn sight worse than when I fought for it.'
Just days later, in a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Mail, Mr Penstone added that Britain has 'gone to rack and ruin'.
It is a view that Mervyn has sympathy with.
'I think it [the war] was a waste of time, because the benefits we got from it, the wartime camaraderie and everyone, almost everybody, mucked in [with] whatever they could do,' he says.
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On another note: Princess Charlotte working the crowds on Christmas. Quite impressive!
https://youtu.be/BNtlfGgeleg?si=b9XvteNCxHpIq08e
He better be careful. He could be put in prison for “misinformation”.
I wonder if he has gotten a visit yet..
King Charles should get involved in politics and advocate for the British People.
He should care because eventually the Monarchy will collapse and his heirs will have to relocate especially when the country will no longer exists in the near future.
If not for Japans attack on Perla Harbor, they would be speaking German still. Why are we always puling British chestnuts out of the fire.
We have done it twice. We are not doing it the third time.
Hope they don’t arrest him.
On the other hand, maybe they did win since the muslims were allied with Hitler.
We are coming up to the point when the last living WWII vets will be those who enlisted by lying about their age.
I’ve been saying it for years: The Germans lost WWII. But the Nazis won.
The CIA? The Space Race? The EU? The WEF? NATO? The Nazis have been running the whole show since 1946.
“We are coming up to the point when the last living WWII vets will be those who enlisted by lying about their age.”
Yep. My dad lied about his age. He was born September 1925, the VA had him September 1922.
Usually the Americans are a bunch of followers.
John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, etc.
No, they would not be speaking German.
Hitler failed to capture Britain in 1940. That was the end of that.
Had the U.S. not entered the war, the eastern front would have ended in some sort of stalemate.
Nazi Germany would have held parts of Europe for a few decades, but Naziism would have peaceably crumbled a decade or two after Hitler's death. Much like Fraconism did not outlive Franco. And much like Communism crumbled peacefully in 1991.
The man is right.
The king is supposed to remain above politics.
But he could more strongly advocate for the British people.
Charles is too busy being a Dhimmi Dummy
Nope he is supposed to be the defender of his kingdom and the Christian faith.
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