This is the question for which I am soliciting an answer for a long time. Regrettably, what I get is lot of excuses from the Germans the inheritors of proverbial Prussian Pride. In today’s context,
Germany as a major economic power has to come out of this collective guilt consciousness.
A brief review of the past events is as follows:
At the conclusion of WWI Treaty of Versailles was
signed on June 28, 1919. It imposed harsh terms on Germany, including
territorial losses, military restrictions, and the requirement to pay
reparations for war damages, infamously
assigning "War Guilt" to Germany. Few highlights of the damnation are:
1. Germany has to surrender about 10% of its territory in Europe and all of its overseas colonies to neighbours and victors
2. Germany was mandated to accept full responsibility for causing WW I
3. Germany was forced to pay massive reparations to the victorious powers
4. Finally, German army was downsized, navy
restricted, air force forbidden to fly and the rump country even being shut out
from her resource rich Rhineland.
The anger and
resentment arising from the Treaty of Versailles helped fuel the rise of
National Socialists led by Adolf Hitler that led the path to WW II once
more. After the gruelling war Hitler’s forces surrendered to allied powers on
May 8, 1945. Apparently there were two dates of surrender: Firstly German
forces formally surrendering on May 7, 1945, in Reims, France. Secondly, at the
insistence of the Soviet Union there was a follow-up surrender in Berlin on May
8, 1945.
This time Allied Powers sought the
assistance of international courts to establish Germany's responsibility for
the war crimes including mass murder committed by Hitler’s forces not on the German rulers but
sadly upon the entire German population.
Today Germany carries this humongous burden of guilt
for both World Wars!
Who can help
Germany to lessen the burden of this collective guilt let alone declare final atonement?
Since the end of WWII German leaders looked upon the West to do that. Disappointedly,
Germany has become an American vassal state in G7, NATO and the American led cabal
of Globo Capitalists. Supposed to be the engine of European economic marvel, Germany
is forced to subsidise countries like Greece and associations like European
Union.
My Submission
Navigating
strategy amid geoeconomics, I suggest Germany to craft a strategy leveraging
her geoeconomics clout to look beyond Western Europe to Middle East, Russia,
the Far East and of course to the global south consisting of Africa, Latin
America and the ASEAN.
That should bring her towards abatement of the so-called war-guilt and absolve her of so-called collective guilt assigned upon her by the West!
Cheers!
Muthu Ashraff Rajulu
Strategy Adviser
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E-mail: cosmicgems@gmail.com
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