Sunday, August 12, 2007

The Resurgence of NAZI GERMANY

Martin Lee, in his fascinating book, The Beast Reawakens, revealed that "there had never really been a clean break from the Nazi past, given that the original leadership of the West German Bundeswehr was recruited directly from the upper echelons of Hitler's army. (Only 3 out of 217 Bundeswehr generals in 1976 WERE NOT THIRD REICH VETERANS, and thirty-seven military bases in the Bonn Republic were named after soldiers who made their reputations during the Hitler years" (p. 286, emphasis mine).

The Resurgence of NAZI GERMANY

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