IN reply to J Pilkington (Letters, June 25), the Third Reich was a complete sham.

This new Germany was financed on "tick" money obtained from all over the world with no intention of paying it back.

Hitler talked peace while he prepared for war. To him, the solution was simple - when the time came to pay back the debts, he would go to war.

The alternative would have been for Germany to go bankrupt. Germany could never be self-sufficient by utilising its own resources.

Hitler shamelessly stripped the wealth and the materials from the conquered countries to prop up Germany.

J P VERNON, Accrington Road, Blackburn.

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