Politics and Churchill

When Jill said at the beginning of last class, “this political module expects to prepare you to understand how politicians operate by taking into account their principles or interests”, I immediately recalled Churchill’s hidden strategy against Hitler during WWII.

In the book “Churchill’s Deception”, Louis Kilzer gathered documents to affirm that millions of lives could have been saved if Churchill had agreed to sign a peace treaty with Germany.

Churchill had not only declined the Nazi proposal but had also not given any guarantee that would not take advantage of a possible civil war that would certainly emerge in case German generals ousted “der Führer” from power.

“Sir Prime Minister” had vivid remembrances of German troops controlling neighboring territories at the time of WWI armistice. Churchill reckoned that this “imaginary victory” made Germans believe they had actually defeated their adversaries and, therefore, a second one would be later necessary to prove that Germans should not have signed the unjust and excessive Treaty of Versailles.

Having this in mind, Churchill blatantly ignored Hitler’s efforts to sign a bilateral peace agreement expecting that Germany would become weaker by having no other option than fighting in two fronts. As a result of this strategy, belligerents extended WWII for few more years stealing millions more lives, especially in the former Soviet Union.

The ones who argue that Churchill made the right decision usually point out the end of a Nazi state and intolerance towards minorities whereas the ones against the English Prime Minister highlight that lives were unnecessarily lost and England, even being in the winner side, would no longer enjoy the prestige of a 19th century empire.

But my question considering this scenario is: How public administrators and everyone who deals with politicians on a regular basis can identify principles and interests that are deliberately disguised?

I believe that had Hitler been aware of the insights “Clearing the Past” and “Struggling for Power” elucidated by James Redfield on “The Celestine Prophecy” he would have quickly grasped the reason for Churchill’s blank responses and, more importantly, the dominating British Empire nostalgia.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1839087.Churchill_s_Deception

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13103.The_Celestine_Prophecy