More than a little irony

Frank the tank

That less than 70years after the end of the second war europe (well eurozone) is basically looking to Germany as it's savior.

Jehannum

Maybe it was the inter-war German recession that put Hitler off the idea of simply buying the rest of europe? :-D

To be fair, although the poor b4stards are going to be paying for it this time, they won't get actual ownership. Again. History repeating itself?

J.

DavidBelcher

Jehannum wrote:

Maybe it was the inter-war German recession that put Hitler off the idea of simply buying the rest of europe? :-D

To be fair, although the poor b4stards are going to be paying for it this time, they won't get actual ownership. Again. History repeating itself?

J.

At the risk of sounding like a Hitler, erm, sorry, History Channel addict, didn't the Nazis plan to undermine the UK economy at one point by flooding it with forged banknotes? Strange to think that the Bank of England is now doing similar (without the forgery bit, obviously) in the form of QE in order to prop the economy up!

David

ooermissus

Frank the tank wrote:

That less than 70years after the end of the second war europe (well eurozone) is basically looking to Germany as it's savior.

Just the tax Germany has to pay for keeping interest rates far too high for the European periphery.

Bobbinogs

It is not at all like the start of a european war, the french haven't surrendered yet.

Gizmodo

I'm sure the Americans will get involved, 5 years late of course.

markos1963

The Italians are struggling to decide which side to back atm

Peddle Up!

For you Costas, ze war is over.

Stewie Griffin

Peddle Up! wrote:

For you Costas, ze war is over.

He died in the 80's but his Family are still claiming his pension.

Richard_D

Europe paid for German reunification so I have no issue with Germany paying to keep the Eurozone unified

mark63

we should have taken the hint back in the 60's when De Gaulle wouldn't let us join in.
(there's gratitude for you)

if things had happened the way they wanted the cold war would have been the yanks & probably us trying to stop the French, Germans, Italians from gaining control of europe & kicking off again, you only have to look at the Treaty of Rome to see what was possibly going through their minds

from another angle you only have to check out the list of manufacturers who not only got through the Nazi period but came out smelling of roses,
BMW, BASF, Hugo Boss, Channel, Ford (of the good ol' usa) there are loads of them spread all over the world, wasn't the third reich supposed to last a 1000 years