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...mein Gott," said Erhard in mock terror. "I hope with me you will work faster. What will you paint...
...linden and oak symbolized Old Germany, the emblem today is the Gummibaum (rubber plant), whose leaves luxuriate in the central heating of millions of spanking-new apartments. The nation has no motto; Gott mit Uns went the way of the spiked helmet, and the closest thing to a watchword in a devoutly neat country is "Vorsicht! Frisch Gebohnert" (Careful! Freshly Waxed). Well-to-do Germans are drinking more heavily, apparently to fight the frustrations of wealth; sociologists speak of Wohlstandsalkoholismus-prosperity alcoholism...
Chamberlain and Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer before the War, are especially castigated for their economic appeasement of Germany; Simon constantly negotiated for expansion of trade with the Germans from 1937 on. Gilbert and Gott cite this as an insidious and unnecessary aid to Hitler...
Gilbert and Gott find Britain's political advances to Hitler much more annoying than her economic connections. At the time, however, these approaches seemed somewhat understandable. Chamberlain had been a careful student of pre-World War I diplomacy, and he hoped to avoid the basic mistake made by both the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente--both systems were so inflexible that war could not be avoided once the first shot had been fired. Chamberlain wanted to preserve to the last minute the flexibility that Loyd George had lacked. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister went too far, as the authors...
...about The Appeasers is that it fails to discuss the most important issue of England's appeasement. If Great Britain had restricted Hitler at any point along his path of conquest, would he have stopped? Taylor insists that he would have, but Alan Bullock is not sure. Gilbert and Gott don't venture an opinion...