Jack Albrecht
1 min readDec 1, 2023

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The first sentence of the first paragraph I knew already. With the second sentence I disagree.

The second paragraph is (maybe) something that appears true in hindsight, but at the time maybe was not. Germany was utterly destroyed at the end of WWII, as was much of Austria. Germany has been occupied by US armed forces to this day, Austria for 10 years after the war.

It was absolutely NOT a foregone conclusion in 1945 that Germany would rise again to become a major European power.

The last paragraph is what I have learned through Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza is one of those "shock doctrine" solutions happened after WWII.

England was waning a former empire trying to hand over assets to the rising US empire. One of those was the "mandate" - read: violent colonial conquest - in Palestine. England had been looking since 1917 to push the Balfour Declaration into reality, and the Holocaust was the "shock" used for that purpose.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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