tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post7283354592396410601..comments2024-03-27T13:13:25.164-04:00Comments on johnshaplin: From Our Place Behind the Wall by Joachim Festjohnshaplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-79160901193313270492014-04-08T11:19:09.012-04:002014-04-08T11:19:09.012-04:00"At some point he will find himself a wife, s..."At some point he will find himself a wife, start a family, and sally forth into the world where many challenges await, perhaps even a war, albeit not like the one Hitler had started so willfully." Just to recap: the Anglosphere and French starved about a million Germans to death after WWI; cleaved their country into several pieces; over a million were ethnically cleansed (property nationalized; undoubtedly 100s to 1000s were killed in ethnic conflict). Next, Germany was getting close to Soviet Communist takeover which had exterminated millions by the late 1930s. The Germans democratically elected National Socialism to protect them from both the West and East. <br /><br />In 1939, the Anglosphere and French created alliances with the dictatorship in Poland which gave the dictatorship a carte blanche to cleanse the remaining German diaspora in former West Prussia (about 100K were in German refugee camps by late summer 1939) . The NS could have either stood by while this process unraveled, but Hitler decided to invade After Poland's fall, he offered peace with the West which was rejected. He then took over the West. He offered peace once more with Britain but this was rejected. By the beginning of the following year he offered to exit all of Western and Northern Europe and to resign in exchange for peace. This offer was again rejected by Britain and thus in order to end the war and thwart an inevitable Soviet attack in alliance with the UK, the democratically validated "disciplined states" launched Operation Barbarossa... and the rest is history.Teutonsuethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15121268402021435110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-3980540516378237042014-03-22T17:01:30.079-04:002014-03-22T17:01:30.079-04:00Not I is the portrait of an anti-Nazis family in B...Not I is the portrait of an anti-Nazis family in Berlin during the brutalizing Hitler years. The title is derived from a free translation of Mathew 26:33: ‘Even if the others do –I do not.”johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.com