Posted on 10/04/2008 7:34:13 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The following story is incomplete, obviously. When I was preparing the story about Palestine I noticed the Bluecher story attached to it. By that time I had recycled the part of the page with the beginning of the story. In this case I figure an incomplete story is better than none at all.
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It is a bold statement, on the part of a large section of the German people and applicable to all Germans who remember their heroic heritage, that not everything is to be rendered unto Caesar.
Something American statists should keep in mind.
A wholly materialistic civilization could not have produced a Bill of Rights, a Gettysburg Address or great change in custom and law which has so vastly benefited the young, the old and the helpless.
Maybe I should send this to the current NYT as a letter to the editor.
You are on. Thanks for your interest.
Shows the workings and hatred of islam well before the founding of the state of Israeli...
Continuing, still from "The Gathering Storm":
"The question has been debated whether Hitler or the Allies gained the more in strength in the year that followed Munich.
"Many persons in Britain who knew our nakedness felt a sense of relief as each month our air force developed and the Hurricane and Spitfire types approached issue. The number of formed squadrons grew and the anti-aircraft guns multiplied. Also the general pressure of industrial preparation for war continued to quicken.
"But these improvements, invaluable though they seemed, were petty compared with the mighty advance in German armaments.
"As has been explained, munitions production on a nation-wide plan is a four years' task. The first year yields nothing, the second very little, the third a lot, and the fourth a flood.
"Hitler's Germany in this period was already in the third or fourth year of intense preparation under conditions of grip and drive which were almost the same as those of war.
"Britain, on the other hand, had only been moving on a non-emergency basis, with a weaker impulse and a far smaller scale. In 1938-39 British military expenditure of all kinds reached 304 millions [of pounds], and German was at least 1,500 millions [of pounds]. It is probable that in this last year before the outbreak Germany manufactured at least double, and possibly treble, the munitions of Britain and France put together, and also that her great plants for tank production reached full capacity. They were therefore getting weapons at a far higher rate than we.
"The subjugation of Czechoslovakia robbed the Allies of the Czech Army of twenty-one regular divisions, fifteen or sixteen second-line divisions already mobilized, and also their mountain fortress line, which in the days of Munich had required the deployment of thirty German divisions, or the main strength of the mobile and fully trained German Army.
"According to Generals Halder and Jodl, there were but thirteen German divisions, of which only five were composed of first-line troops, left in the West at the time of the Munich arrangement.
"We certainly suffered a loss through the fall of Czechoslovakia equivalent to some thirty-five divisions. Besides this, the Skoda works, the second most important arsenal in Central Europe, the production of which between August 1938 and September 1939 was in itself nearly equal to the actual output of British arms factories in that period, was made to change sides adversely.
"While all Germany was working under intense and almost war pressure, French labour had achieved as early as 1936 the long-desired forty-hour week..."
Thank you for another excellent history lesson.
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