Germans Quotes
During the Nazi period, this quotation was used as propaganda amongst the German people to create the image of a pure Master Race.
There were a number of world leaders who were not happy about the German Reunification. See Henry Kissinger {610355} for another.
The Boxers were against Western and Christian influence. The Government was too weak to protect the foreigners or the Chinese Christians. So the Western Powers used their soldiers and diplomats to defend the Western Enclaves and Christian Churches not unlike the situation with the Taliban in Afghanistan a century later.
Mussolini allied with Hitler. Ciano turned out to be right.
Vladimir Lenin
Urged to attend the opening of the Pennsylvania Canal and to speak to the German farmers, he wrote:
Under the treaty between Ireland and England that created the Irish free state, in case of war or other contingency, the Irish Free State was required to allow Great Britain to use specific seaports. However, De Valera hated the English, originally opposed the treaty, and was adamant that the Irish Free State be neutural in WWII. He therefore refused to fulfill the Irish obligation. Interestingly, although De Valera did not want to assist the British fighting the Germans, over 70,000 Irishmen went to England and Volunteered to fight on the British side. There were Irish batallions fighting on the allied side but the Irish Free State was neutural. De Valera made matters worse when he allowed German agents into the Irish Free State to try and go from there to England as well as set up observation posts to guide German bombers attacking the populated city of Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland. The Allies were able to use the Northern Irish Ports but had the Germans blocked those, the British would have invaded the Port Areas of the Irish Free State to obtain what Ireland was required to supply.
The Teutons were the Germanic tribes who were very warlike. His prediction of German war and aggression was demonstrated by WWI and WWII. The French Revolution diminished the influence of religion throughout Europe.
After WWI, the Germans were reluctant to make the reparation payments that they had agreed to in the WWI peace treaty. The French, to “motivate” the Germans, occupied the German Ruhr Valley—an area that contained very important German heavy industry and coal mines that could not function under the occupation. See {640090}.
The Germans killed 22 million Russians, most deliberate murders and not collateral damage, in WWII.
