Looks like Mac was right, Germany has turned the EU into the Fourth Reich. You
Brexit BOMBSHELL: Harold MacMillan's CHILLING EU warning revealed
HAROLD MACMILLAN issued a chilling warning about the EEC – the precursor to the EU – before Britain joined the bloc, claiming that Germany was using it as an instrument to assert its supremacy across the continent once more, it can be revealed.
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Wages, exports and investment were all up, particularly compared to the austerity of the war years.
Despite the good sentiment, suspicions of Germany remained strong in the post-war era, particularly when, by the late Fifties, West Germany’s economy appeared to challenge Britain’s.
In 1958, Harold Macmillan issued a chilling warning about the EEC, a year after its creation. He said: “Western Europe dominated in fact by Germany and used as an instrument for the revival of power through economic means… is really giving them on a plate what we fought two wars to prevent.”
Mr Macmillan was not the only one who feared Berlin.
According to 2017 report “Euroscepticism and Opposition to British Entry into the EEC” by the French Journal of British studies, a British official similarly warned that the EEC would provide “a means of re-establishing the hegemony of Germany”.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1...rbyn-soft-brexit-harold-macmillan-germany-spt