Berlin, 2009
“Unfortunately for the West, because their fates are crossed, Stalin, Rosa Luxemburg and Adolf Hitler have made Berlin the capital of the pain.
Since its proclamation November 9, 1918 in Berlin, Weimar has been a random existence, as the adverse reactions were numerous and violent, from the inside but also outside: Revolution (Spartacus), coups (W. Kapp, A. Hitler), inflation (1923), war debts (Treaty of Versailles).
Devastated by the defeat, these events precipitated Germany into a nightmare that lasted 71 years.
But the elite, confused in its analysis and often complicit, failed to anticipate the hell Nazi or Communist following, and despite the quality of his thought, the German nation has become the laboratory of his own demons. The 1st system, brutal, lasted 12 years (1933-1945) and has destroyed the ethical foundations of Western civilization.
In response, the second regime (1949-1989), full of good intentions, could not ultimately hold its totalitarian impulses. He ruined the socialist utopia in 40 years.
This German tragedy had its epilogue November 9, 1989 with the fall of the Wall “.
Stephane Duroy (New York, July 2009)
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