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> KORSCHING: "I would rather take Swedish nationality than stay in GERMANY and wait for the next war. On the other hand I would not make any effort to become Br
by hh3k0 3y ago
> KORSCHING: "I would rather take Swedish nationality than stay in GERMANY and wait for the next war. On the other hand I would not make any effort to become British. If there is nothing more to be made out of GERMANY, one should at anyrate get away from RUSSIA."
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- shpx 3y agoCould you spell out what specifically you find significant about this quote?
- daliusd 3y agoMaybe it is note that situation has not changed since then and how Merkel has failed with her foreign politics with Russia and how Germany is paying now because of it. Or maybe it is proof how insightful this is.
- shpx 3y agoHe's a Nazi that worked on uranium enrichment saying he wants to stay away from the country his bomb would've presumably been used to ethnically cleanse with unprecedented efficiency. What "situation" are you hoping will change?
- coldtea 3y agoYeah, if anything united Nazis and western allies, was their anti-USSR hating [1]. Which was the common ground for the western financial and infrastructure support and tolerance for Hitler before the war. [1] Which was not about the situation in USSR itself (they could not care less, they supported worse attrocities before and after the war), but about losing their colonial and geopolitical influence, and about their own workers being "tempted" into socialism and demanding more rights, unions, and such.
- agapon 3y agoIf anything united Nazis and Soviets it was their anti-democracy hating. Which was the ground for Soviets providing material support to Germany, training to German officers, etc. Right?
- coldtea 3y agoNo, the ground was stalling for time to prepare for war, with a German Nazi establishment who was openly anti-communist and anti-USSR. The "anti-democracy" communists did more to get rid of Nazis and fascism than all of Europe and US combined (the latter, especially, came late to the party, with token gestures like Normandy, and have since used movie after movie to instill in popular culture the idea they "won the war"). And had a much bigger toll.
- hh3k0 3y agoPlease don’t spread historical revisionism, the Soviets were perfectly fine with Nazism until it has turned against them. They teamed up with Nazi Germany to invade Poland together and even held talks to formally join the Axis, ffs. And if it weren’t for the monumental material support in form of the US-provided lend-lease arrangement, the Nazis would’ve conquered the Soviet Union and carried out a genocide that’d have dwarfed the Holocaust.
- shizzy0 3y agoIt's a prescient statement with regard to the cold war.
- nl 3y agoThe context here is that the German scientists thought it likely that Germany would be completely taken over by Russia (because the Western advance has stalled).