Teutonophopbia

Published
by
Friedrich Braun
on June 24, 2008
in Germany and History
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Without wishing to talk to death certain issues raised by Churchill, Hitler and “The Unnecessary War,” I have been noticing the obsession of Buchanan’s critics with German blame for World War One. This fixation has recently come up with particular force in one truly egregious article in Newsweek that global democratic atheist and part-time Teutonophobe Christopher Hitchens prepared in response to Pat’s blockbuster. Hitchens counterfactually ascribes to the Germans exclusive blame for the “odious” Franco-Prussian War. But, curiously, he produces no proof for this blanket assertion. He then claims that the German government merely pretended that the Franco-Russian alliance (a development to which Hitchens vaguely alludes) was an attempt to “encircle” Germany. If that alliance was not intended to have this effect, I’d like to know what sources Hitchens could cite for his opinion. And so would George Kennan, if he were still alive, who wrote the authoritative study of the Franco-Russian alliance. Hitchens also castigates the Kaiser for having sided with the South African Dutch against the English aggressors in the Boer War. But that was also the position taken with some justification by other European government leaders at the time.

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