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Berlin crisis, charged with expanding and introducing a "Fourth Reich"
Resentment against the Germans grow every day in France, Great Britain, Greece. Even the French press has doubts that Germany does not want to govern alone Europe.
Not only in France the policy adopted by Chancellor Angela Merkel arousing anti-German feelings. And in London, and Athens, politicians and the media denounced the creation "of the Fourth Reich". In Britain, the European virulently criticized the German cabinet. Prime Minister David Cameron opposes most of the projects initiated by Germany at European level, in tandem with France's contribution to FESF, transaction tax, budget control. The fact that Berlin does not allow the European Central Bank to intervene and buy bonds of countries with massive problems and he is criticized in most European capitals, more openly or veiled. But references to what happened in World War II have increased only recently.
"We live today in a Europe dominated by Germany, that is exactly the situation that the European project should prevent it," said Nigel Farage ultraconservatorul UK before the European Parliament. Registration Farage's speech was very successful in the UK, where politicians and media are growing fears echo of German hegemony, writes "Le Figaro".
Conservative Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, warned in an interview for "Sunday Telegraph", that "we should not pretend to create a European government that would actually be controlled by Germany."
Since August, the "Daily Mail" (right oriented tabloid) headline their article "The Rise of the Fourth Reich or how to use the financial crisis Germany to conquer Europe." Tabloid wrote that "Germany, which was not so strong in 1941, pulled strings to land exclusive club European Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Giorgios Papandreou to replace them with technocrats subject."
But anti-German feelings are expressed more subtly argued. The "Financial Times", Sebastian Mallaby show that Germany is the country that has benefited most from the Euro-whether it's common currency or expenditures made by neighboring states immeasurable - and now it should all help the euro save consistently.
"The second occupation" of Greece
Since last year, reminded the Greek press that Germany should not teach how to save Athens, especially since it still has debts to Greece. And the nomination, in November, a German task force's head of the European Union - Horst Reuchenbach - was not the happiest choice, in any case in the eyes of the Greeks, who still remember the horrors of Nazi occupation clearly. Horst was quickly nicknamed Reuchenbach "third Reichenbach," was designed (and Angela Merkel) to suit Nazi officer and his office was called "the new headquarters of the Gestapo."
Other analysts agree that this rule is unintentional and due to its strong economy. And now that France began to have problems and that other European countries depend on the decisions of Berlin, Germany found itself at the helm of Europe and not using gloves to impose other remedies or national: austerity. Angela Merkel also said that "Germany does not want to dominate Europe." No longer believed, especially since other members of his own party, Volker Kauder and says, candidly, that "Europe speaks German."
Even the German press has serious doubts. "We can speak of a democratic, egalitarian and diverse when, under the whip Germany are required countries in the South, as if it would not have chosen austerity policies designed to Berlin and implemented by governments alleged expert?" , asks "Berliner Zeitung". The same newspaper leaves a note of doubt: "How to reconcile the political pressure exerted by Berlin on the ECB (not print money and buy bonds Spanish, Italian, Greek) which insists that independence would be an ECB?".
"Der Spiegel" is even harder: "Germany won World War II last week. Oops! I said something that did not have? A so we have Angela Merkel, the German owner of Europe's unique and we do not know nothing but that Italians do not have to be Italian. "
France speaks of "Bismarck", "diktat" and "Schlag"
In France, Sarkozy is criticized Angela Merkel became the poodle and German ambitions to dominate Europe. References used by French politicians ranging from World War II until the Franco-Prussian War.
François Hollande, the Socialist Party presidential candidate next year, explained, for example, in an interview that "Merkel and Sarkozy is the one who decides who is subject to" negotiations on the future of the euro. Another socialist leader, Arnaud Montebourg, accused Merkel of that applies a "style Bismarck" in an allusion to the humiliation of France by Otto von Bismarck in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871).
Communist MP Jean-Marie Le Guen to Edouard Daladier compared with Sarkozy, who went in 1938 to sign the Munich agreement with Hitler, which was ceded to Czechoslovakia.
At the other end of the political spectrum, Marine Le Pen (National Front, far right) denounced "Schlag's Europe, ie Europe, which means loss of our sovereignty."
Germany reopens investigation of a Nazi massacre
In a strange timing, Germany reopened the investigation into the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glan. On June 10, 1044, 642 people (of which over 200 children) were massacred in the small French SS. Now, after 67 years, six floors of Dortmund identifiat still alive former SS members who were at Oradour-sur-Glan when the massacre. Six homes were searched recently wrote "Le Figaro". Most likely, the six SS men, now aged between 85 and 86, were then very young and does not occupy any control function. Currently, they live in Hanover, Berlin, Cologne, Bielefeld and Darmstadt and documents were found with the former East German political police, the Stasi. Two of them have already denied that he participated in the massacre, and four are unable to speak or remember. And the search was not found any documents that relate to what happened in the French town.
Then, 200 SS members were sent to the French town to discourage through Rezsistenţa French massacre, four days after landing in Normandy.
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