What the Germans inflicted upon Europe, Jewry, AND, let's not forget, the Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, mental patients, and 'political deviants.'
I agree with Keith's assessment with how lingering the German fascist/imperialist sentiment is. Even now, Germany bends over backwards to inoculate itself against accusations of still harboring those sentiments. Lawry On Jun 24, 2012, at 1:56 AM, Keith Hudson wrote: > At 15:32 23/06/2012, Arthur wrote: >> In speaking with a retired govt economist the other day he thought that >> Europe is in the position today that legions of German troops couldn‚t >> achieve during WW2. Which is that it is has the power to set the agenda for >> the future of Europe, one way or the other. > > It still seems to be the case, though, that Germany wants to redeem itself > for what it inflicted on Europe and Jewry more than half a century ago. > Whatever epigenetic traces of the "might is right" mentality of the > 1860-1945 period might remain seem to be very faint in the two young Germans > I know well. They very much want to be regarded as good Europeans. They > regard my scepticism (re the Eurozone) as being unfortunate (to say the > least!). Nevertheless, Western Europe can never be unified unless it has a > minimum of cultural cohesion that's typically a byproduct of nationalistic > warfare (offensive or defensive) or civil war. > > Keith > > >> >> Arthur >> >> >> From: [email protected] [ >> mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson >> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 4:14 AM >> To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION >> Subject: [Futurework] Jumping with delight >> >> One had only got to see Angela Merkel jumping up in her seat with every >> German goal (all four of them!) scored in its soccer match with Greece last >> night, to realize that she's not going to allow Germans to subsidize the >> rest of the Eurozone in any significant quantity for much longer. >> >> The Eurozone faces only two alternatives now. It can only be some sort of >> attempt at dictatorial take-over by some newly-concocted Eurozone entity in >> order to impose budgetary control on all member governments whatever their >> different socio-economic cultures, or it will be an unpeeling of the >> Eurozone in one way or another. >> >> Keith >> >> >> Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com >> > Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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