Adenauer a social democrat??? US-British policy from 1945 had a central objective--keep Kurt Shumacher (the social-democratic leader who had barely survived the Camps) out of power, and therefor permit no free elections. Indeed, from before Munich (when Chamberlain knew that resistance to Hitler's ultimatum would result in his overthrow through a military coup organized by General Oster) to the end of the war Allied policy had as an absolute priority to keep Hitler in power until Germany could be occupied in order to prevent another 1918 revolution. Hence the "unconditional surrender" policy that cost millions of Allied, German, and Jewish lives. Hence the terror bombings of German proletarian cities like Hamburg and Essen (Churchill having learned in 1940 that terror bombing was an excellent means of propping up support for the ruling government among the victims). Hence the assassination targeting of Erwin Rommel, who was central to the "July 20th" conspiracy, of which Allied intelligence was informed by the plotters themselves. Hence the "denazification" farce (compare the treatment of Furtwängler, an anti-Nazi, to that accorded Parteigenoss Von Karajan). And that was under Truman and Atlee! How can anyone doubt that Bush and Blair would do even worse by their "liberated" Iraqi subjects?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64