by Pinch » 14 Jun 2016, 20:20
Hello Peeps.
I've just posted this on the other forum - WUK. I understand if it comes across a bit heavy, but it's how I see things and without prejudice.
Looking back through Germany’s history, there’s Otto Von Bismarck who was considered the founder of the German Empire. For nearly three decades he shaped the fortunes of Germany, from 1862 to 1873 as prime minister of Prussia and from 1871 to 1890 as Germany's first Chancellor. He was a master of complex politics at home. He created the first welfare state in the modern world, with the goal of gaining working class support that might otherwise go to his Socialist enemies. Bismarck distrusted democracy and ruled through a strong, well-trained bureaucracy with power in the hands of a traditional Junker elite that comprised the landed nobility. Under Wilhelm I, Bismarck largely controlled domestic and foreign affairs, until he was removed by young Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890. Bismarck, a Junker himself, was strong-willed, outspoken and sometimes overbearing, but he could also be polite, charming and witty. Occasionally he displayed a violent temper, and he kept his power by melodramatically threatening resignation time and again, which frightened Wilhelm I. He possessed not only a long-term national and international vision but also the short-term ability to juggle complex developments.
WW1 was triggered because Franz Ferdinand was assassinated and Austria blamed Serbia for the Archduke’s death. Germany naturally sided with Austria and was waiting for the green-light to declare war on Serbia. War was declared and Germany also declared war on Russia and France during August 1914 - just weeks after the assassination of Ferdinand. France, Britain, Ireland and Russia formed alliance and WW1 began. We all know the outcome.
A young man by the name of Adolf Hitler was also a visionary and after WW1, he started to attract an audience of vulnerable people with his ever growing dictatorship, eventually forming the Nazi Party. By 1933, the Nazi Party was the largest elected party in the German Reichstag, which led to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor.
The ‘New Order’ or the ‘New Order of Europe’ was the political order which Nazi Germany wanted to impose on the conquered areas under its dominion. The establishment of the New Order had already begun long before the start of WW2, but was publicly proclaimed by Adolf Hitler in 1941:
“The year 1941 will be, I am convinced, the historical year of a great European New Order.”
Again, we all know the outcome of Hitler’s vision.
Today, we have the European Union and who’s at the helm? You got it – Germany. Has Germany’s mentality really altered that much? Are we at the mercy of another future outbreak of manipulative dictatorship, or has it already silently begun - hmmmm, very clever.
Ask yourself: Where is it really going if we stay in the EU?
We've already surrendered 60+% of our backbone to the EU. Do we want to surrender the other 40%?
The human race - History is always being made for a reason.
In my previous life, I was a tree.