Posted on 03/01/2007 8:01:53 AM PST by Bokababe
BELGRADE/PRISTINA/TIRANA/BERLIN(Own report) - Serbia should relinquish its southern province of Kosovo and place itself under the patronage of its former enemies. That is the gist of the offer which the German presidency made to the Belgrade government last Monday. As a reward for the renunciation of Kosovo, negotiations would be opened with the EU for an association agreement. The territorial self-amputation, which Berlin expects in the name of the EU, would break the Serbian constitution and create a dangerous precedent of forced secession of territories by appeals to "self determination" from violent minorities. Organisations connected with German foreign policy have pushed these sorts of theories for years, aiming at the dismemberment of neighbouring countries. The offer by the German presidency followed demonstrations by violent Kosovo separatists which claimed two lives last week end. The disorders were promoted by a terrorist organisation which demands an end to the need for Kosovo to achieve standards in human rights and already has a branch office in Germany. Its ringleaders were among the co-conspirators of the former German foreign minister Klaus Kinkel in the preparations for the Yugoslav/Kosovo war of 1999. They cooperated with the underground Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) which was supported and sustained by Germany. Those ringleaders form the government in Pristina today. The ensuing violence is a consequence of the change of power enforced by Germany which gave suspected war criminals and crooks the decisive influence in Kosovo.....
(Excerpt) Read more at german-foreign-policy.com ...
The Kaiser would be proud.
Hitler would be proud!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland
Sudeten Crisis and German annexation
After 1933, the Sudeten-German party (SdP) pursued a policy of escalation. Party leader Konrad Henlein had secretly formed a pact with the Nazi Party now ruling in Germany and would gradually increase his demands so that Hitler could reap the fruits of the conflict.
Immediately after the Anschluss of Austria into the Third Reich in March 1938, Hitler made himself the advocate of ethnic Germans living in Czechoslovakia, triggering the "Sudeten Crisis".
The Nazis, together with their Sudeten German allies, demanded incorporation of the region into Nazi Germany to escape oppression. While the Czechoslovakian government mobilised its troops, the Western powers urged it to comply with Germany believing that they could prevent or postpone a general war by appeasing Hitler.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden on September 15 and agreed to the cession of the Sudetenland. Three days later, French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier did the same. No Czechoslovak representative was invited to these discussions.
Cropped image of what first appeared in the Nazi party newspaper Völkischer Beobachter, ostensibly depicting a Sudeten German woman in Asch crying tears of joy when Hitler crossed the border in 1938. Allied propaganda later used the cropped image with other interpretations.
Chamberlain met Hitler in Godesberg on September 22 to confirm the agreements. Hitler however, aiming at using the crisis as a pretext for war, now demanded not only the annexation of the Sudetenland but the immediate military occupation of the territories, giving the Czechoslovakian army no time to adapt their defence measures to the new borders. To achieve a solution, Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini suggested a conference of the major powers in Munich and on September 29, Hitler, Daladier and Chamberlain met and agreed to Mussolini's proposal (actually prepared by Hermann Göring) and signed the Munich Agreement accepting the immediate occupation of the Sudetenland. The Czechoslovak government, though not party to the talks, promised to abide by the agreement on September 30.
The Sudetenland was occupied by Germany between October 1 and October 10, 1938. This unification with the Third Reich was followed by the flight or expulsion of most of the region's Czech population to areas remaining within Czechoslovakia.
The remaining parts of Czechoslovakia were subsequently invaded and annexed by Germany in March 1939.
and excerpts:
"After 1933, the Sudeten-German party (SdP) pursued a policy of escalation."
"The Nazis, together with their Sudeten German allies, demanded incorporation of the region into Nazi Germany to escape oppression."
Munich, all over again!
With exception that Chambarlain resides in White House this time.
"Here I hawe a document signed by Herr Hitler.."
Yes, that direct comparison has been made in an article in Defense & Foreign Affairs, vis-a-vis Kosovo & Sudetenland : http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789894/posts
History repeats itself, Germany just can't keep away its hard-on for the Balkans.
Hitler too.
"When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side."
When it comes to the Balkans, United States is completing Hitler's unfinished work.
It seems that gravest mistake Serbs made in 2oth Century was not siding with Hitler, declaring war on U.S. and shooting USAAF planes down.
All those who did just that are in favor of United States and destroyed Serbs with American help and blessing.
As Kissinger put it, Being America's enemy is dangerous,being America's friend is fatal.
Bump!
Hitler would indeed be proud of the current German president on this issue, and so would Mussolini. "Self-determination" for Kosovo would take Kosovo away from the Serbs, who are, and always have been, Kosovo's rightful owners. Kosovo would be under the control of the those murderous drug-running thugs in the KLA. The Serbs have lived there for centuries. That land is theirs.
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