Re: Was Churchill overrated?
Hello Kruska, I agree with a lot of what you say in your last post but possibly for different reasons.
Churchill was immensley proud of his country and so would set it above all others.The British Empire had passed its zenith but Hitler did say GB could keep as part of the peace offers he made.
You believe that Churchill did the same as Germany did, demanded or displayed. After the WW1 Germany was disorganised and probably a bigger threat to itself than other countries.With the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis Churchill recognised the threat to Europe which proved correct. First by Annexation then by force of war Hitler set out to colonise both the west and the east.If he had succeeded there would be no free world as we know it.
I do not believe that GB won the war .The Allies together did that. GB was the first country not to fall to the Nazis and so became the worlds largest aircraft carrier and enabled the Normandy Invasion to take place.
Churchill bound our nation together and kept it free until the USA entered the war as an ally. Had it been left to other politicians all of us would now be speaking German. With the British Empire in Hitlers hands he would have had no need to attack Russia. All the imports he needed, fuel from Persia and the Gulf states. Which way would Canada, South Africa and Australia have gone.Germany's living space that Hitler demanded ?
Love him or hate him Churchill has had a great bearing on the lives of many of us today. We shall soon be gone from this world and who will speak our names in 50 years time?
Last edited by rhs; July 11th, 2009 at 11:07 AM.
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