WHY do newspapers, yours included, insist on referring to our armed forces fighting the Nazis in the Second World War? It’s a nonsense. We, and our Allies, fought Germany and the Axis powers. Neville Chamberlain’s famous announcement of war in September 1939 included the memorable line: “I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.”
He didn’t say that a state of war existed between our people and the Nazi Party. I’m sure the Germans didn’t think they were fightng our Conservative Party.
Not every German was a member of the Nazi Party. Far from it. Early regulations required that all Wehrmacht members should be non-political and any Nazi member joining in the 1930s was required to resign from the party, a regulation that was eventually relaxed.
The Telegraph was at it again in the report of the shocking attack on war veteran Bob Schofield of Salterforth. Brave Bob had been “fighting Nazi troops” during the war, apparently. I’m sure he always thought he’d been fighting the Germans.
It’s not “political correctness gone mad”, it’s an insult. Stop it.
HAROLD HEYS, Darwen.
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