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Interesting. I never knew that.Originally posted by minestrone View Post
Now back to the topic.....See You Next TuesdayComment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostDe Valera didn’t have a book of condolence, he signed the German Embassy’s book. Perhaps that’s what you meant (I’m not sure if English is your first language?) but it didn’t sound that way.Originally posted by minestrone View Post
As for the rest of it, how is this relevant to the thread?
We could play tit-for-tat all day about all sides (Alan Turing was a war hero but was treated spectacularly badly by the British, for example), so what’s your point exactly?Comment
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No, “we” didn’t. We were one of the occupying powers that approved it, but we didn’t write it or ratify it.Originally posted by minestrone View Post
On 1 September 1948 the Parlamentarischer Rat assembled and began working on the exact wording of the Grundgesetz. The 65 members of the Parlamentarischer Rat were elected by the Parliaments of the German Länder with one deputy representing about 750.000 people. After being passed by the Parliamentary Council assembled at the Museum Koenig in Bonn on 8 May 1949—the Museum was the only intact building in Bonn large enough to house the assembly—and after being approved by the occupying powers on 12 May 1949, it was ratified by the parliaments of all the Trizonal Länder with the exception of Bavaria.Comment
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So in 1945 when we had got to Berlin and knew the full extent of the crimes, the Irish pollical leader thinks
"to be sure that Hitler chap was alright, can someone pop over to see the Germans and sign a book or something"Comment
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"and after being approved by the occupying powers"
As I said.
How many other countries have their constitution "approved" by "occupying powers" .Comment
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The Irish.
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Minnie conveniently forgets the assistance that the Free State gave to the Allies while his IRA chums were plotting with the Nazis.Comment
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