The EU’s Architects: Nazis and Nazi Collaborators

‘There is an old adage that pertains to the founding of the European Union “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again”. And for the Nazis and Nazi collaborators of the Second World War, viewing the post-war European death and destruction brought about by Adolf Hitler and his “Third Reich” alliance of Italian fascists, French Vichy, and others, the immediate decision was to “try again” with a European Union that would establish the same European super-state envisaged by Hitler but with a decidedly “democratic” aura.
What eventually became the EU, the European Coal and Steel Community, was formed by six Western European countries in 1951. The organization was the brainchild of Robert Schuman, a French politician who swore allegiance to Marshal Philippe Petain, the French Vichy leader and ally of the mustachioed German ex-corporal. Schuman was later stripped of his political rights for his collaboration with the hated German bosche. However, Free French commander, General Charles De Gaulle, restored Schuman’s full citizenship, after which the old Vichy collaborator set about to create a modified version of the Third Reich, the European Union.’
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