Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The Schlieffen Plan.

We are suffering from a dangerous, historical revisionism with regard to World War One.
The blame must be laid firmly at the likes of the Fabian Society whose core belief was, and remains, the abolition of the nation state. They have allowed their ideas to trickle, as 'fact', into relatively mainstream history. Any and all possible propaganda was fed into a heavily misinterpreted history designed to limit or even remove all blame from Germany for the outbreak of The Great War.

The Schlieffen Plan is a case in point. Examine it carefully and try to spot precisely where it can be seen as 'defensive planning'. It was purely and simply a plan for future German aggression.

Yes, Catherine!

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