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April 2nd, 2016 
Awake Goy Having spent a lifetime drinking from the wellspring of real history there is much about Germany that continues to baffle me. How do I explain human denial of the glaringly obvious? Is renunciation a form of survival mechanism? Alternatively, is it simpler to accept the view of English poet Alexander Pope, ‘hope springs eternal in the human breast’?
This appears to explain the decision made by Adolf Hitler in June 1940 to permit the evacuation of 338,000, mostly British troops, from the beaches of Dunkirk. Swatting and sweeping England’s British Expeditionary Force (BEF) away from Germany’s frontiers was a walk in the park. We won’t bring up at the dinner table earlier English debacles. These include the expulsion of 33,000 half-starved rickets-infected English troops impudently squatting rent-free in Norway by just 4,000 German troops.
The German statesman’s altruism in allowing half a million of ‘England’s finest’ to return to their terraced hovels might have been thought a fitting enough punishment. Why put Tommy in German holiday camps. The miscreants were far more deserving of England’s rows of Victorian slums with their outdoor latrines and tin baths in front of a smoky kitchen fire. Such might have warmed the hearts of Englishmen and later their Asian guests, but it is doubtful if Magda and Helmut coveted such English flea-pits. One is reminded of the jibe: ‘First prize one week in Fulham, Second Prize two weeks in Fulham.’
I reluctantly accept that Germany’s great social reformer, a poet and idealist first, believed England would return his kindly gesture in kind. However, we Irish suffered 700 years of perfidious Albion. As an Irishman who believes in an eye-for-an-eye, German generosity of spirit is a weakness. Ireland as a nation is old enough to be Deutschland’s daddy. I am sorry, Fritz, but you’re not doing this right.
Okay, you Germans erred twice and on other occasions too. What I do find perplexing was Hitler’s naivety. With the Worker’s Reich in ruins and the Axis armed forces totally overwhelmed by the Allied armies, the German leader’s artlessness was disarming beyond comprehension. Prince Michael Sturdza, Romania’s former Foreign Minister, shared my bewilderment.
In February 1945, Adolf Hitler sent a message to his emissary, Mikhailovich, the Chetnik leader, to convey to the English his preparedness to hold all eastern territories whatever the German losses. He would do so provided that the U.S. and Britain would fill the vacuum ~ with the full co-operation of the German armed forces. Britain and America refused, telling Mikhailovich to make the offer to Russia instead.
Here was Germany’s Stalingrad, Dunkirk and Norway combined: “As the armies of the Third Reich pulled back, they desperately formed a line of resistance to hold all points in the east to keep Asiatic Bolshevism out of Europe. It was Hitler’s belief that Britain and the United States would recognize the threat posed by the Red Army adding thirteen formerly free European nations to the Soviet Union.”
The German leader was keen to sign a separate peace treaty with the West that would return Eastern Europe to their pre-war self-governing status. The Third Reich armies who fought and died to hold and defend Europe died in vain; they died of a disease called naivety.
I like Germany, but I like pan-Europe far more. Germany is far too juvenile to even presume to speak for Europe. To give Germany power in Europe is like giving the keys of the car and a bottle of whiskey to one’s teenage son.
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