The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.
Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.
Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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