Germany is described by war victors’ propaganda as being a pit bull terrier of Europe. The media myth is that Germany is an aggressive territorially ambitious country never happy unless intent on war with her neighbours and bent on world domination. Hence the justification for applying restraints and even today denying occupied Germany its legal constitution and independence. 

Ironically, Germany’s main antagonist is Britain. A country that actually did conquer the world and even today is the only European nation determined to police the world and to instil its dictates on lands far beyond its borders.  What are the historical facts?

A Study of War by Professor Quincy Wright, shows that in the period from 1480 to 1940 there were 278 wars involving European countries, whose percentage participation was as follows:

ENGLAND 28%

FRANCE 26%

SPAIN 23%

RUSSIA 22%

AUSTRIA 19%

TURKEY 15%

POLAND 11%

SWEDEN 9%

ITALY 9%

NETHERLANDS 8%

GERMANY (INCLUDING PRUSSIA) 8%,

DENMARK 7%.

Pitirim Sorokin, Vol. 111, Part. 11, Social and Cultural Dynamics, shows that from the 12th Century to 1925 the percentage of years in which leading European powers have been at war is as follows. (p.352).

PERCENTAGE OF YEARS AT WAR

SPAIN 67%,

POLAND 58%,

ENGLAND 56%,

FRANCE, 50%,

RUSSIA 46%,

HOLLAND 44%,

ITALY  36%

GERMANY 28%

Sorokin concludes, therefore, that Germany has had the smallest and Spain the largest per cent of years at war. Of leading modern European states, England, France and Russia show clearly far more aggressive inclination than does Germany. For the years between 1815 and 1907, the record stands as follows:

BRITAIN   10 wars, RUSSIA 7 wars, FRANCE  5 wars, AUSTRIA 3 wars, PRUSSIA-GERMANY 3 wars.

WINSTON CHURCHILL ‘The war (declared by Britain) was not just a matter of the elimination of Fascism in Germany, but rather of obtaining German sales markets.’ – Winston Churchill, Fulton, March 1946.

‘You must understand clearly that this is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but rather against the power of the German nation, which it is desired to destroy forever, whether it lies in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.’ – English explanation to a German political opponent of Hitler. SOURCE: Witness to History, Michael Walsh. Book Banned by Amazon.

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