"John Ringo - The Legacy of the Aldenata 7 - Watch On The Rhine" - читать интересную книгу автора (Ringo John)

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Annemarie Mai, Green and Socialist representative from Wiesbaden, had
been among those unutterably hostile to the Kanzler's idea. As the film
began to roll she was by no means displeased to see Washington, DC, in
ruins. American policies, from their cowboyish adventures in imperialism
to their wasteful and destructive energy and environmental policies toтАФ
most damningтАФtheir insistence on an outdated economic system that
had the infuriating habit of making her own preferred statist system
seem inefficient; all these made Washington a loathsome symbol of all
she despised about America.

Like many in the world, however, Annemarie liked Americans, as people,
just as much as she hated their country.

And so her reaction to much of the rest of the film was quite different.
Little children gone catatonic with fright at having seen their parents
butchered and eaten before their eyes made Annemarie weep. More
horrid still were the children not gone into oblivion, the ones shown who
screamed and cried continuously. These made the legislator quiver with
terror.

And then there were the soldiers, with their sick, dirty and weary faces.
They were white enough to seem no different from the boys and girls of
Germany. The shrieks of the wounded, especially, tore at Annemarie's
heart.

And then came the piles of meat-stripped bones, human bones, along
with separate piles of neatly split skulls, some of them very small indeed.
These sent Annemarie running for the ladies' room, unable even for a

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moment longer to keep down her gorge.

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"You must think very little of the strength of the democratic spirit in
German hearts to be so concerned about the dangers of rejuvenating
twenty or twenty-five thousand old men," the chancellor told a group of
hecklers, shouting slogans from the gallery.

If his words had any effect on the hecklers it was something less than
obvious. Their chants of "No more Nazis. No more Nazis," even seemed to
grow a bit in volume and ferocity.

"They were not always old men," answered one of the legislators. "When