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Originally Posted by Chris
Well yes they should. In this instance it’s jonbxx’s German friend who chose to characterise the UK’s current position by reference to “pre-1939”. Whether this is a widespread belief in Germany or just his own, it was his choice to liken today to the state of Europe in the 1930s. That being the case he really needs to drop any idea that there is any kind of equivalence between Germany then and the U.K. now.
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Apologies, I wasn’t clear. His point was that the UK was at its peak before 1939. Post war Britain was nowhere near what it was before the war. Within a few years of the end of the war we were nearly broke, the empire dissolved and the last gasp was the Suez crisis. The pre 1939 was the UK pre 1939, not Germany