Under that headline Thomas Röper, editor of the “Anti-Spiegel” website, has noted how the EU (NATO) rearmament policy is strikingly similar to the one introduced by Adolf Hitler in 1936, with Hitler’s “Denkschrift” Memorandum to Hermann Goering.
In the memorandum, Hitler wrote that the Soviet Union was preparing an invasion of Europe, and that Germany should therefore be ready for war against Moscow in four years.
“The military power behind this [the Soviet Union’s] aggressive intent is increasing rapidly from year to year. Compare the Red Army that has actually been created today with the military’s assumptions 10 or 15 years ago to gauge the dangerous extent of this development,” Hitler wrote, concluding the six-page memorandum with two sentences:
“1. The German army must be operational in four years.
“2. The German economy must be capable of waging war in four years.”
Compare his memorandum with comments from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte’s, that “Russia could be ready to use military force against NATO within five years,” (June 9) and Boris Pistorius’, “We must be ready for war by 2029.”
The only difference is that whereas Hitler used the word “kriegsfähig,” Pistorius used the synonymous term “kriegstüchtig.”
NB: In the Denkschrift, Hitler uses the original arguments of Thomas Malthus to justify the necessity of war, that agricultural production is not able to feed the German population, should all Germans have the means to buy themselves enough food. Therefore Germany needs Lebensraum.
NBB: Röper has been hit by EU sanctions. He has been accused of spreading Russian propaganda. Although he is a German citizen, he cannot enter the EU, and his properties are being seized.
