Five chapters from Morgenthau’s book, Germany is our Problem, here published with an introductory note by Ellopos. Emphasis, in bold or italic letters, by Ellopos. Complete book in print.
March 13, 1938—Anschluss. (As the Nazi terror struck
Austria, as a new crop of exiles and martyrs was harvested, the world began to
believe Hitler really meant what he had been saying, but the German race toward
war had gone into its final sprint now.)
September 29, 1938—Munich. (The name was to become a
shameful synonym for appeasement. The date was the twentieth anniversary of a
conversation in which Hindenburg and Ludendorff told the Kaiser that the jig
was up this time, that he would have to ask for peace.)
March 15, 1939—Prague taken.
March 22, 1939—Memel annexed.
April 28, 1939—Polish treaty denounced; British naval treaty
denounced.
August 23, 1939—Russo-German pact.
September 1, 1939—WAR.
Somewhere in Germany, fanatical young corporals— perhaps
even privates and sergeants, too—are weeping as bitterly as Hitler did in 1918.
Soon, like him, they will be dreaming of another chance at world conquest and
reminding each other in beer halls and shabby eating places how narrowly they
missed success this time. They will get that chance if the United Nations
merely repeat the controls that proved so ineffective before. For the
industrial leaders of Germany already are laying their plans. They did not
even wait for final defeat in World War II before beginning to mobilize for
World War III.
