Don’t forget price of appeasement

Sir, The question that William Rees-Mogg poses in his Opinion (“Does appeasement look so bad, 70 years on?”, Aug 31) is obviously not without relevance to current events. The media is conditioning the public to the view that whichever party wins the forthcoming election, we are left with little option but to pull out of Afghanistan. It is a war that we cannot win owing to an insufficient number of troops and an incompetent Government that supplies them with inadequate and inefficient tools with which to do their job, and ensuring that they fight the war with one hand tied behind their backs.

Rees-Mogg made no mention of the racial hatred and anti-Semitic activities already being perpetrated under Hitler’s direction from 1936 onwards and his loudly shouted intention to rid Germany and Europe of its Jewish, Gypsy and gay population; anyone, in fact, who he did not consider an Aryan. This, of course, resulted in millions being led to their deaths in the gas chambers or being rounded up by the thousands in the Ukraine, where, having dug their own mass pits for graves, they were stripped naked, shot and their bodies bulldozed into the pits for burial.