Barack’s Berlin Blunder, Obama flunks history again
For more please see Gateway Pundit’s Obama Camp Draws Fire For Berlin Campaign Rally
Barack's Berlin Blunder | Michelle Malkin
Submitted by Brutus149 on Wed, 2008-07-23 04:09.
The Second Schleswig War united Protestant Germany, The Victory Column celebrates that victory.
Bismarck then used French jingoism against France to unite the Catholic southwest Germanic states with the rest of Germany in the Franco Prussian War which ended in a treaty in Versailles.
WWI ended on bad terms for the Germans with the Treaty of Versailles, which was French payback for the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War.
Hitler was angered by the "Stab in the Back" and fought to get a jingoistic German government which gave rise to the Nazis taking power.
So without the cause of the Victory Column, there would be no Nazi party
Submitted by David Hinz on Wed, 2008-07-23 16:29.
following WWI was a perfect demonstration of why revenge is a poor international foreign policy. Had the German people not been treated so badly -- and their entire economy ruined, they would have had no reason to follow a pied piper.
Submitted by Brutus149 on Wed, 2008-07-23 19:02.
The reparations that Germany paid to France, were in part, retaliation from France for the reparations that France paid Germany after the Franco-Prussian War. The site of Versailles as Germany's capitulation after WWI was not a random selection. The French were looking to make sure Germany didn't come back into France with the Treaty of Versailles, that didn't work out so well.
Submitted by pilgrim on Wed, 2008-07-23 09:30.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202113.html
She ended the column with this:
Quote:
Sixty years later, as Obama arrives in a prosperous, thriving Berlin, it is fair to wonder whether the Cold War might have unfolded differently had Truman decided not to draw the line there against Soviet aggression.The allure of quick and definite withdrawal from Iraq is evident. The reward of careful perseverance may become visible only in the long arc of history.
John Wayne: "You're a persistent cuss, pilgrim."
The Victory Column was erected to celebrate Prussia's victory over Denmark in the 1860's, when Prussia was led by the "Blood and Iron" Chancellor, Bismarck.