THE FOURTH REICH IS ANTI-NATIONALIST AND ANTI-SOCIALIST:

The German Plot to Reinvent Greece and Europe (Jacob Heilbrunn, September 30, 2011, New Republic)

A conspiratorially minded observer would be hard pressed not to conclude that the European financial crisis is a German plot. Southern Europe, indebted beyond its means and facing impoverishment as the bond trading vultures detect easy prey, is now looking to Germany as its savior. The financial mess has completed Germany's redemption from pariah to the leader of Europe. Indeed, it may not be too much to assert that Germany has again become a great power peacefully dictating the European future, this time with Euros rather than bullets. It's trying to end state socialism across the continent and replace it with the austerity of market economics, something that Greece would never have assented to a few year ago.

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