Unconditional Hatred

Written by a highly respected military historian, this book was one of the first to undo the decades of irrational anti-German hate which had led up to the Second World War—and to openly state the reality that the Allies who sat in judgement of Nazi Germany at Nuremberg had been equally, if not more so, guilty of plunging Europe into its most destructive war.By showing the actual progression of events in Europe from the time of the defeat of Napoleon to the early 20th Century, Grenfell demolishes the myth of the Germans being "the Butcher Bird" of European history, citing the fact that Prussia and Germany had only been involved in three conflicts—two of them minor—during the entire 19th Century, with the aim of creating a united Germany. In contrast, the author points out, there is a large list of conflicts waged by France, Britain, and Russia, all of whom engaged in numerous wars of imperialism in which Germany never featured.Captain Grenfell delves into British and European history to show how Prussia—and then a united Germany—had in fact never been the aggressors, even though they were painted as “Huns” (the Asiatic invaders of Europe of 1,800 years earlier who had been driven off by Germans defending Europe). In spite of this fact, the author shows, the propaganda mill continually incited hatred against Germany over a period of more than a century.It was this propaganda and incitement which, the author shows, led directly to the First World War. That conflict, started by the British and French against Germany, ended with the Versailles Treaty, which tore Germany apart, destroyed the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and blamed Germans for the war—even though the Allies had started it.This treaty, the author shows, was the penultimate act of irrational and hypocritical hatred toward Germany, and used by the Allied Powers to once again plunge Europe into an entirely avoidable Second World War when Germany sought