The War of the World?

Discussion in 'Historiography' started by adamcotton, Apr 22, 2015.

  1. Ramiles

    Ramiles Researching 9th Lancers, 24th L and SRY

    It is a fair point and Germany does have the largest single proportion of the votes in the EU.

    EU expansion has perhaps as one of it's goals a diluting effect on the strength of the Franco-German combination.

    Were Turkey to be permitted to join (which I'd favour :pipe: ) their current (and future population) could count in that way.

    Ultimately I'd suspect too that much of North Africa would come too into the EU, or at least as in the manner of Norway and Switzerland at present would economically be slotted more firmly into that sphere.

    Of course the option is always there to see Germany not as one whole united front, but as a federalist structure of many voices through separate states (in fact the US is still a lot of different states operating together towards a common good) - and it surprises me that after WW1 Germany was in fact left as such a "strong" state. Austro-Hungary was the one that "really" seemed to "suffer the breakup" there. And Hitler never seemed to focus on restoring that particular bit of Versailles. He cherry picked a problem and made it his goal.

    At the "end" he wanted Germany to be "utterly destroyed" as it had failed him - and as such - did not deserve a future, having lost him the war.

    I think it's an even greater victory there that at the end he still didn't get things his way ;)

    After his abject defeat, he'd have been the last one to have expected or wanted Germany to ever rise again - and particular with the help of those who crushed his dreams and whom he therefore so despised.

    So it all turned out nice again after all...

    Got to smile now about that :)

    Rm.
     

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