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  1. They begin by showing Germany's present-day borders, not how they looked in 1940.
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  2. Fr. Dave Nix - Look when that was written up, late 1944. By that time most Germans recognized that the war was lost. The Red Army was rolling over Eastern Europe with no one to challenge them. The British Empire was bankrupt. Churchill was struggling to hold a marriage-of-convenience alliance together with Stalin until Hitler was done. Treaties were Churchill's only bargaining chip, and he did the best he could with what he had. He would have signed anything keep Stalin on board.
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  3. Enjoying the weather in Havana?
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  4. Haha. My mother was born in Germany, was ten years old when Hitler took power in 1933. She witnessed the entire twelve years of The Thousand Year Reich. I myself have lived in Germany, part of that time as a soldier with the US Army. Speaking fluent German, I interviewed relatives and acquaintances who witnessed events first hand, some of them having fought "on the wrong side." I still have family there and last visited Berlin several years ago. I also studied Nazi Germany in college, and have read extensively. From your comment I gather that your standards for intellectual background are exceptionally high. So please. Feel free to share.
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  5. Here's what I think is America's greatest quality, a seemingly bottomless capacity to forgive. First, I want to bring up the opposite extreme, which seems to find most fertile ground in the Middle East. Seems the locals squabble perpetually because of unsatisfactory conclusions to battles fought centuries ago. The attitude seems one of, "once an enemy, always an enemy." Now America. We might cling to our resentments for a while, but these are soon shelved with a "that was long ago" perspective. Who could have imagined that within a decade of the most bitterly-fought war in history, World War II, Americans would buy Volkswagens or Toyotas? But in America this implausibility often does happen. Differences over religion or ideology or whatever are set aside in favor of "let's do business." How can anyone not love that?
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  6. Read "Gulag: A History" by Anne Applebaum. It's better.
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  7. CottnMouthKilla NC - Everybody but Churchill didn't take Hitler seriously. You talk about so-and-so was "scared," more like "indifferent."
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  8. I think I've found the nub of our communication problem. According to the "I Look On History Dictionary" confronting and/or responding are defined, "Sitting on your ass for eight months."
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  9. Donald Clifford - Do you believe in unicorns?
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  10. Donald Clifford - If you're gonna compare I think the best comparisons show up in rhetoric. Churchill turned a demoralized nation around when words were about the only weapon he had, with a talent for making the normal awfulness of war sound glorious. "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" still stirs seventy years later. We get, "Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart." A nation facepalms.
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  11. Was waiting for "changed for the better."
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