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"intends to use them [new weapons] first against Ville-France, then establish Germany's worldwide rule." from a novel written in 1879! Also interesting, that
by bsedlm 5y ago
"intends to use them [new weapons] first against Ville-France, then establish Germany's worldwide rule."
from a novel written in 1879!
Also interesting, that the main protagonists originate from an inherited fortune of a lost hindu prince
- handrous 5y agoThe Franco-Prussian/Franco-German war ended about eight years earlier, in which France lost territory to Germany (Alsace-Lorraine). Germany was very much ascendant at the time, unified and having recently besieged Paris itself, so that's not exactly a crystal-ball prediction Verne was making.
- yumraj 5y agoWho do you think had funded Britain's fight against Germany in WW-1 and WW-2?
- gerikson 5y agoApart from Britain and its empire itself, loans and leases on generous terms from the United States.
- yumraj 5y agoBy empire I'm assuming you mean all that they had stolen from India and elsewhere.
- gerikson 5y agoIt doesn't really matter how they had acquired it, they could draw on resources and manpower - Indian regiments, Malayan rubber, Indonesian oil (via the Dutch government in exile)... I'm convinced by reading "Britain's War Machine" by David Edgerton that Britain's darkest hour was not Dunkirk but Japan's entry into the war and its lightning capture of most of SE Asia.
- yumraj 5y agoMy comment was in response of the OP’s “an inherited fortune of a lost hindu prince”. I was making the point that the British gov also used the resources of a Hindu country.
- bsedlm 5y agoWhat I really want to know, is who funded the germans?