Psychological enigma: Churchill and Eisenhower
Both Churchill and Eisenhower received a thorough secondary and higher education. Both were—and historically are—regarded as civilised 20th-century leaders, humanists, democrats; in short, ‘good people’. And the question arises: Why, then, once the war was over and Germany was disarmed, did they act so cruelly and unnecessarily? Ignoring the slaughter of civilians ordered by Churchill during the war, why did he continue to be so ruthless against the civilian population deprived of their land in eastern Germany? And as for Eisenhower, why did he violate all international treaties to have 900,000 German prisoners killed after the war?
Psychologically, it is very difficult to explain the behaviour of these two victorious leaders. In the remote past this was not the case with either Genghis Khan or Attila. Some speculation remains:
– Were Churchill and Eisenhower furious that a country like Germany, a quarter the size of Mexico and with only 80 million inhabitants, had come close to defeating all the Allied powers?
– Were they hurt that National Socialism had lifted a country out of misery in only four years and made it a military power in only six?
– Were they furious at all that they had almost lost and desperately seeking revenge?
– Or could they not forget that Germany had nearly defeated them, and that four centuries (since 1500) of fruitful progress towards the world dominion promised by Yahweh to the descendants of Abraham would have been lost? Even if that danger were averted, did the risk they had lived through drive them to the extremes of hatred to which they had been driven?
In short, it has so far not been possible to make a coherent psychological analysis of Churchill and Eisenhower. Paradoxically, very little is written about them and they are almost forgotten in their countries of origin.
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Remember that Borrego was the only journalist in Mexico who not only sympathised with the Third Reich, but also criticised Jewry.
This further proves that you can give a man education and suits, but not nobility. Both Churchill and Eisenhower were crooked men with no sense of honor or shame.
They were terrified that Hitler almost won the war and that he was going to shatter that system which created them, and thus also their comfortable lives and reputation.