In view of your particular interests keep an eye out for a new book, Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back, Europe 1914-1949. He's written some good stuff on Hitler. Haven't read this yet but very good reviews. 649 pages. Wordery have it hardback for £18 and Amazon have a Kindle edition for £9. I shall buy the Wordery one in the next few days.
Hitler could have saved himself and the world a whole heap of trouble, clearly the intention was for Germany to dominate a Federal Europe through war. Maybe the politics are different now, but a mere two generations later we have a Germany dominating a Federal Europe!!!
I expect there's many a WW2 vet wondering why they bothered.
Sorry Towd Lad but it was more complex than that and not comparible at all. Hitler was a murderous madman who was driven by a racist agenda. In fact he wanted to control the world and not just Europe. Comparing what is happening today to the current situation in the E.U. is insulting and nonsensical. Germany dominate the EU because they have had the strongest economy, so in a way we should expect that. We didn't fight the Germans in WW2 we fought the Nazis.
Sorry Towd Lad but it was more complex than that and not comparible at all. Hitler was a murderous madman who was driven by a racist agenda. In fact he wanted to control the world and not just Europe. Comparing what is happening today to the current situation in the E.U. is insulting and nonsensical. Germany dominate the EU because they have had the strongest economy, so in a way we should expect that. We didn't fight the Germans in WW2 we fought the Nazis.
Sorry Towd Lad but it was more complex than that and not comparible at all. Hitler was a murderous madman who was driven by a racist agenda. In fact he wanted to control the world and not just Europe. Comparing what is happening today to the current situation in the E.U. is insulting and nonsensical. Germany dominate the EU because they have had the strongest economy, so in a way we should expect that. We didn't fight the Germans in WW2 we fought the Nazis.
Hope I didn't get the wrong end of the stick, sickly. I meant it tongue in cheek. I dont mean to belittle those events.
For what its worth my old dad when at the age of 14 was rounded up like millions of others in Poland at that time, and taken to Germany as slave labour. He did a runner in 1944, making his way mainly on foot to Italy and joined the Polish 2nd Corps under the British 8th Army. Quite an adventure and a long story, but he ended up in England in 1947 where he was demobed, met my mother and here I am. My father never saw his family or what was left of it, until I took him back to the village a few years back. So I am well versed in the historical background, complexities and the horrors of WW2, which had a great impact on my family.
