HUMAN NATURE?

Adolf Hitler led Germany into a fateful war that left Germany with a loss of a third of its territory, to this day, as well as dividing its nation, in half, for 50 years in addition to lowering its status among nations which has lasted to this day.  Hitler had made the mistake of arousing two sleeping Giants, the Soviet Union by waging a war of genocide, and the U.S. by declaring war on her.

Yet, not too long after that war, I had the occasion to run across a class of German new building vessels which I found particularly suitable for the transport of high explosives, two of which I arranged to charter.  One of the captains was from a part of Germany, which was his family's ancestral home, now a part of Poland for the better part of a century.  In my discussions with the Captain, I learned that despite this he held Hitler in high regard for having, he said, re-established order to Germany.  What he could not understand, however, what right American warplanes had to appear over his homeland when he, personally, had never done anything to the U.S.

I have, since those conversations, despaired of our species ever learning from history. 
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