From:   "John Hurst.", [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The London Telegraph

European army and political union were planned by Nazis
By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent


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THE idea of a pan-European economic and political union with its own
defence force was conceived by SS officers according to documents released
today to the Public Record Office in Kew.

Maj Gen Ellersiek and Brig Mueller, Hitler's chief of staff during the
Battle of the Bulge, came up with the idea as a means of keeping Nazism
alive following the expected Allied victory in the Second World War.

By March 1946, Ellersiek was in charge of an underground political party
called Organisation Suddeutschland. It believed in the establishment of a
fully-armed United Europe, Ellersiek told a British intelligence official
masquerading as a Foreign Office representative.

"What was important was that Britain should realise that if Europe was to
survive, we should all think 'as Europeans'," the ex-SS man was quoted as
saying. The party's manifesto called for "a pan-Europe as a balance between
Russia and the USA". Although the European nations would remain
"independent", finance and defence matters would be decided centrally.

"The good which was in Nazism still lives in the German heart," Ellersiek
said. His party offered "a new revolution for Germany which will set the
pattern for Europe". This revolution is to be the work of the new elite,
the German prototype of the future rulers of Europe . . . which has emerged
purified from Nazism and the trials of war."

The British official noted that German generals seemed likely to be in
charge. "Germany must lead this New Europe with the cooperation of
Britain," he quoted Ellersiek as saying, adding his own view that: "So
little else of Britain is mentioned that it is evident she is to be the
junior partner."

The proposed European force has echoes of the current attempts to form
European Rapid Reaction Force, controlled by Gen Rainer Schuwirth of
Germany. Gen Sir Charles Guthrie, Britain's Chief of the Defence Staff, has
implicitly criticised the Germans for not backing their promised
contributions with cash, leaving much of the manpower and equipment to be
provided by the UK.
--
Er, excuse me, but wasn't this the same paper that reported last
year that the EU was in fact an operation of the OSS, to prevent
further European conflicts or something like that?

It appears the EU was the idea of everyone except the people who
actually formed it!

Steve.


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