An alternative version of modern history.

[Eric Ertman]

Churchill in an open letter (1938) to Hitler wrote "I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful positions among nations". If that was the view taken by Churchill, an Englishmen, how could any German who having lived in degradation and poverty thanks to the Versaille Treaty be expected not to agree? What about the fact that from 1933 the number of unemployed in Germany was over 6 million;By the summer of 1935 there was no unemployment! Hitler demanded the end of class warfare and the introduction of a new socialism, the liberation of the country from foreign political dependance and a concentration of all forces of the country on the task of eliminating unemployment and creating a a well-ordered and healthy state. Aims that most can sympathize with or...?

So Churchill got his moral crusade against national socialism and Hitler. A crusade that was rather a war on the German people and their industrial power. Fuller has described the British war aims in the following terms: "From the time of the Tudors to 1914 Great Britains policy has been concerned with the maintenance of the balance of power,that is, with keeping the great nations of the continent apart by rivalry and herself constituting the balance between them. Such a role automatically made clear which country should be regarded as a potential enemy. It was not the most infamous nation,but the particular nation whose policy constituted a greater threat to Britain or the empire than did that of any other country". The US has backed this policy with even a greater zeal.

At the casablanca conference in 1943 the two cronies Roosevelt and Churchill declared that they would continue to fight until Germany "surrendered" unconditionally. This meant that in the event of submitting Germany would have no rights whatsoever, but would be wholly at the mercy of its' enemies, and of what that meant some idea can be gathered from Uncle Joes demand at the Teheran conference at the end of november 1943, when he insisted that at least 4 million Germans should be deported for an unspecified number of years to Russia as forced labor. Another good reason to continue the fight was the Morgenthau Plan also accepted by Roosevelt and Churchill at the Quebec conference in september 1943.

What to make of this? Well to me as far as England and the US are concerned- The more things change the more they remain the same.

Cheers,
Eric