The EU has Nazi roots
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer
The EU has Nazi roots because Walter Hallstein, the first president of the Commission of the European Economic Community, was a prominent Nazi and a member of the SA
The Nazis' vision of the future was actually not a glorified German nation-state but something bigger.
By 1941, the Nazis found themselves in control of Europe, to misuse de Gaulle’s phrase, “from the Atlantic to the Urals”. At the time, they developed a number of projects for the reorganisation of Europe under Nazi control. A typical example is the plan for a “European Confederation”, drafted in 1943 under Foreign Minister Ribbentrop. As John Laughland (one of the more eloquent proponents of the Nazi-EU argument) describes it, the scheme spoke of the “common destiny of European peoples”, aimed “to ensure that wars never break out among them”, and foresaw “trade based on the principle of European preference vis-à-vis non-European countries”. Such a description clearly resonates with any reader used to hearing similar phrases from the European Commission. On the surface, it would appear that there must be something to the argument that Nazi plans for Europe have quite a bit in common with today’s EU.
The enduring appeal of this myth in Britain is in large part due to that fact that it plays on public perceptions of the country’s experience in the Second World War. Flickr/EU Exposed. Some rights reserved.
Talk of Hitler harks back to Britain’s finest hour, when Britain, so the national narrative goes, was able to defeat the Nazis that had overrun Britain’s continental allies, thanks to the strength of Britain’s national character, its empire, and its special relationship with the US. This rhetorical flourish concludes that today Britain ought to stand outside of Europe, as it did during the Second World War, and is accompanied by appeals to the “special relationship” – and even the Commonwealth – to prop up Britain’s power.
Such proposals are anachronistic and unrealistic. While its empire and its navy once gave Britain the status of a superpower, the political reality today is that Britain’s voice on the international stage is significantly amplified by its membership of the EU. Labelling the EU as the fruit of Nazi projects may be a roundabout way of stoking up national pride, but the actual desired outcome – opposing the EU from the outside – would be disastrous for Britain.
There are indeed many legitimate grounds for criticising the EU. The EU’s policies since the eruption of the Eurozone crisis have often lacked vision and have weakened support for the EU in many member states. There is a troubling disconnect between the seemingly distant and arcane institutions of the EU and the everyday concerns of its 500 million citizens.
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