From Versailles to Damascus: A German Historian’s Parallel

An anniversary of Mourning – However a Coronary heart Nonetheless Beating

A letter to the editor.

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
December 8, 2025

Pricey buddy, Arabi Souri.

I clearly keep in mind the morning of December 8, 2024. It was a Sunday and subsequently the weekend for us. I had gotten up early, began up my pc, and was searching the same old information websites.

On that December day, Damascus fell into the fingers of the allegedly “reasonable rebels” of Al Qaeda, below the present cowl identify “HTS”, generously supported by the US, France, Nice Britain, and others. A “wished terrorist” with the stage identify Al-Jolani, who was even sought by the terrorist godfather USA with a bounty on his head, moved into the presidential palace and henceforth known as himself “transitional president.”

Since then, we have now needed to witness actually weird scenes of Western politicians brazenly currying favor with their head-chopping companions of Al Qaeda (and all her licensees).

Nothing is simply too embarrassing for the psychopaths and narcissists of the evil empire:

The perversity of all these scenes is breathtaking!

The occasions because the fall of Syria show that every one those that had been reporting on the arsonists and their backers since 2011 (you and Miri Wooden with Syria Information and lots of others), had all the time reported the reality, opposite to all of the mendacious claims of the media whores: The alleged “civil conflict in Syria” had been a rigorously and cold-bloodily deliberate conflict in opposition to Syria and its sovereign management from the very starting.

At the very least, the vermin along with its masters did expose their mind-set and soul, celebrating essentially the most vile and brutal destiny that they imposed on a civilized nation. By that, they uncovered the whole lot to those that wish to see and perceive (while the bulk, the all the time intentionally ignorant plenty and the smug psychopaths, as regular, don’t care).

Syria seems as if being put below a curse. However I’m very positive that this destiny just isn’t everlasting. I’m positive that the struggling will finish and that the demons will fall. Simply because the Imperial Knight Ulrich von Hutten again within the sixteenth century instructed us Germans: “No distress is endlessly”.
Presumably, the demons will fall because of what they’re and much more what they can not obtain or turn into.

Please enable me to inform you a narrative. I’m positive you’ll perceive the message.

In 1918, by a deception on the a part of American President Wilson (“honorable peace”), Germany was persuaded to hunt an armistice to finish World Battle I. However as a substitute of an honorable peace, the peace-seeking German nation was confronted by its enemies, the vengeful French and the opportunistic English, with boundlessly brutal, merciless, and dishonorable situations for a “peace” that by no means was meant to be one, however moderately to turn into the shroud of a murdered nation.

For 4 years, the German military had been victorious in any respect fronts, preventing within the west in opposition to the French, British, and American forces, and within the east in opposition to the Russians. No enemy soldier ever crossed borders into Germany.

As a result of British starvation blockade (1914-1919), Germany was incapable to import sufficient meals to feed her inhabitants that had grown quickly to vital numbers because of the rich occasions after the muse of the Empire in 1871 (ending centuries of political weak spot, empowering a then following monumental outburst of financial, cultural and social developments which made imperial Germany the financial, social and cultural lighthouse of Europe).

The British provoked conflict began in 1914 with Russia declaring conflict on Austria, and, by that, forcing Germany to stay to its obligations from a German-Austrian treaty of bilateral assist.

When the truce was agreed, because of the blockade, about 763,000 German civilians had already died of starvation and chilly – a conflict crime by no means put to court docket – and an finish to the distress was out of sight.

In that state of affairs, in November 1918, supported by the enemies, the socialists began a mutiny, decapitated the Empire by faking a resignation of the Emperor, and illegally put in a regime of Marxist, liberal, and centrist politicians who had been eagerly keen to sacrifice the whole lot to meet the enemies’ calls for. The individuals named these traitors “achievement politicians”.

The enemies wished Germany to give up unconditionally. The tough situations for peace pressured upon Germany had been a monstrous slap within the face of a nation of 65 million hungry and determined individuals, taking away all means for constructing a affluent and self-reliant future.

The anger and despair in a nation horrified by the dishonesty and hatred of its enemies surged like a stormy sea, however Germany, which had already withdrawn its troops from France and Belgium to exhibit its sincere want for peace, was now not militarily able to resisting the mixed Allied forces. Germany had not been occupied at any level; German troops had victoriously occupied components of France and all of Belgium earlier than a protracted and bloody conflict of attrition had exhausted her forces.

As a way to put stress on Germany to meet the Allied record of situations, together with surrendering actually all of Germany’s industrial, navy, and engineering capacities and an unlimited quantity of debt to be paid in gold, the French and British threatened to occupy the economic hub of Germany, the Rhineland and Ruhr space.

The treacherous regime in Berlin (the up to date time period given by its patriotic opponents was “Novemberverbrecher” i.e., November Criminals – referring to the coup d’etat in November) wished to give up to the lethal situations, when a few of the highest rating officers of the military said they might moderately provoke the enemy to occupy components of Germany, even swallowing greater than he may probably chew, to then combat again with a guerrilla tactic warfare from the retreat within the East and letting the enemy bleed and pay and, by that, lastly lose.

This idea, in fact, was disputed and put down by the regime. Lastly, pressured by imposed Allied stress, Germany signed the “peace” treaty of Versailles with its monstrous burdens placed on Germany’s shoulders for no less than 3 generations. This treaty was “one of the crucial outrageous and predatory treaties in historical past. It was a blatant act of plunder perpetrated by a gang of robbers in opposition to a helpless, prostrate, and bleeding Germany”.

The regime lived till 1933, pushing the as soon as unbiased Germans into the poverty of debt-enslaved peasants, imposing alien legal guidelines and plundering their wealth gained by onerous labour and profitable enterprise.

This regime lastly fell because of its personal incapability to construct a German state that suited the individuals. As a substitute, it pushed the German individuals into the hell of poverty, cultural decline, sexual perversity, and amorality. These years, for good cause, had been remembered because the time of despair and dishonor.

After the enemies of Germany, by their warfare, in 1945 as soon as once more ended a German regime that had efficiently introduced prosperity and safety to the best nation in Europe, Germany was fully occupied, divided, stripped of greater than 100,000 sq. kilometers of its jap territories, with 16.5 million German civilians brutally expelled from their houses, of whom no less than 2 million died, and put below Allied management that lasts to this very day, with the implementation of a faux state-like regime that reigns over the German individuals for the sake of alien pursuits just like the regime of the Novemberverbrecher from 1918 to 1933.

Right this moment, there seems to be not a lot of an opportunity that almost all of Germans would quickly turn into patriotic, go away the standing of a bent slave, and eventually combat for the liberation of Germany from occupation and, by that, combat for an actual future for his or her youngsters in peace, prosperity, and freedom. As I typically instructed my youngsters, I work for the long run that your youngsters wouldn’t know oppression however freedom.

I instructed you this historical past for that reason. I suppose you’ll perceive the similarities, and I’m positive you wouldn’t be astonished to see that the culprits are the exact same within the case of Syria as they had been within the case of Germany.

To the long run!

Syria has misplaced a battle. She’s going to prevail and win the conflict, so long as there are nonetheless Syrians who’re keen to prevail. As Safaa Syria wrote, “minds” need to be “liberated earlier than geography.”

This work might be accomplished solely by you, the Syrian individuals.

This liberation, nonetheless, shall be supported and significantly admired by all your folks across the globe. We’re not loud. We’re not current within the streets, not current on TV screens. However we’re nonetheless right here, every one in every of us in our place.

As an indication of companionship, the Syrian flag has been positioned in my research since 2011.

God bless Syria.

Sincerely yours,
Stefan

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
Historian, born in 1964, has labored as a lecturer in grownup schooling and, amongst others, in Human assets growth for a US-American firm in Germany.

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