From Versailles to Damascus: A German Historian’s Parallel

An anniversary of Mourning – But a Heart Still Beating

A letter to the editor.

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
December 8, 2025

Dear friend, Arabi Souri.

I clearly remember the morning of December 8, 2024. It was a Sunday and therefore the weekend for us. I had gotten up early, started up my computer, and was browsing the usual news sites.

On that December day, Damascus fell into the hands of the allegedly “moderate rebels” of Al Qaeda, under the current cover name “HTS”, generously supported by the US, France, Great Britain, and others. A “wanted terrorist” with the stage name Al-Jolani, who was even sought by the terrorist godfather USA with a bounty on his head, moved into the presidential palace and henceforth called himself “transitional president.”

Since then, we have had to witness truly bizarre scenes of Western politicians openly currying favor with their head-chopping companions of Al Qaeda (and all her licensees).

Nothing is too embarrassing for the psychopaths and narcissists of the evil empire:

• In Brussels, the EU stuffed millions into the pockets of its terrorist brood.
• At the UN, Jolani behaved as if he owned the place.
• In Washington, Donald Trump sprayed him with perfume (what a scene), perhaps to cover up the smell of blood,
• and US Army commanders played basketball with him in a relaxed manner.

The perversity of all these scenes is breathtaking!

The events since the fall of Syria prove that all those who had been reporting on the arsonists and their backers since 2011 (you and Miri Wood with Syria News and many others), had always reported the truth, contrary to all the mendacious claims of the media whores: The alleged “civil war in Syria” had been a carefully and cold-bloodily planned war against Syria and its sovereign leadership from the very beginning.

At least, the vermin together with its masters did expose their state of mind and soul, celebrating the most vile and brutal fate that they imposed on a civilized nation. By that, they exposed everything to those who want to see and understand (whilst the majority, the always deliberately ignorant masses and the arrogant psychopaths, as usual, do not care).

Syria appears as if being put under a curse. But I am very sure that this fate is not eternal. I am sure that the suffering will end and that the demons will fall. Just as the Imperial Knight Ulrich von Hutten back in the 16th century told us Germans: “No misery is forever”.
Presumably, the demons will fall due to what they are and even more what they cannot achieve or become.

Please allow me to tell you a story. I am sure you will understand the message.

In 1918, by a deception on the part of American President Wilson (“honorable peace”), Germany was persuaded to seek an armistice to end World War I. But instead of an honorable peace, the peace-seeking German nation was confronted by its enemies, the vengeful French and the opportunistic English, with boundlessly brutal, cruel, and dishonorable conditions for a “peace” that never was meant to be one, but rather to become the shroud of a murdered nation.

For 4 years, the German army had been victorious at all fronts, fighting in the west against the French, British, and American forces, and in the east against the Russians. No enemy soldier ever crossed borders into Germany.

Due to the British hunger blockade (1914-1919), Germany was incapable to import enough food to feed her population that had grown rapidly to significant numbers due to the wealthy times after the foundation of the Empire in 1871 (ending centuries of political weakness, empowering a then following enormous outburst of economic, cultural and social advancements which made imperial Germany the economic, social and cultural lighthouse of Europe).

The British provoked war started in 1914 with Russia declaring war on Austria, and, by that, forcing Germany to stick to its obligations from a German-Austrian treaty of bilateral support.

When the truce was agreed, due to the blockade, about 763,000 German civilians had already died of hunger and cold – a war crime never put to court – and an end to the misery was out of sight.

In that situation, in November 1918, supported by the enemies, the socialists started a mutiny, decapitated the Empire by faking a resignation of the Emperor, and illegally installed a regime of Marxist, liberal, and centrist politicians who were eagerly willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill the enemies’ demands. The people named these traitors “fulfillment politicians”.

The enemies wanted Germany to surrender unconditionally. The harsh conditions for peace forced upon Germany were a monstrous slap in the face of a nation of 65 million hungry and desperate people, taking away all means for building a prosperous and self-reliant future.

The anger and despair in a nation horrified by the dishonesty and hatred of its enemies surged like a stormy sea, but Germany, which had already withdrawn its troops from France and Belgium to demonstrate its honest desire for peace, was no longer militarily capable of resisting the combined Allied forces. Germany had not been occupied at any point; German troops had victoriously occupied parts of France and all of Belgium before a long and bloody war of attrition had exhausted her forces.

In order to put pressure on Germany to fulfill the Allied list of conditions, including surrendering literally all of Germany’s industrial, military, and engineering capacities and an enormous amount of debt to be paid in gold, the French and British threatened to occupy the industrial hub of Germany, the Rhineland and Ruhr area.

The treacherous regime in Berlin (the contemporary term given by its patriotic opponents was “Novemberverbrecher” i.e., November Criminals – referring to the coup d’etat in November) wanted to surrender to the deadly conditions, when some of the highest ranking officers of the army stated they would rather provoke the enemy to occupy parts of Germany, even swallowing more than he could possibly chew, to then fight back with a guerrilla tactic warfare from the retreat in the East and letting the enemy bleed and pay and, by that, finally lose.

This concept, of course, was disputed and put down by the regime. Finally, forced by imposed Allied pressure, Germany signed the “peace” treaty of Versailles with its monstrous burdens put on Germany’s shoulders for at least 3 generations. This treaty was “one of the most outrageous and predatory treaties in history. It was a blatant act of plunder perpetrated by a gang of robbers against a helpless, prostrate, and bleeding Germany”.

The regime lived until 1933, pushing the once independent Germans into the poverty of debt-enslaved peasants, enforcing alien laws and plundering their wealth gained by hard labour and successful enterprise.

This regime finally fell due to its own inability to build a German state that suited the people. Instead, it pushed the German people into the hell of poverty, cultural decline, sexual perversity, and amorality. These years, for good reason, were remembered as the time of despair and dishonor.

After the enemies of Germany, by their warfare, in 1945 once again ended a German regime that had successfully brought prosperity and security to the greatest nation in Europe, Germany was completely occupied, divided, stripped of more than 100,000 square kilometers of its eastern territories, with 16.5 million German civilians brutally expelled from their homes, of whom at least 2 million died, and put under Allied control that lasts to this very day, with the implementation of a fake state-like regime that reigns over the German people for the sake of alien interests similar to the regime of the Novemberverbrecher from 1918 to 1933.

Today, there appears to be not much of a chance that the majority of Germans would soon become patriotic, leave the status of a bent slave, and finally fight for the liberation of Germany from occupation and, by that, fight for a real future for their children in peace, prosperity, and freedom. As I often told my children, I work for the future that your children would not know oppression but freedom.

I told you this history for this reason. I suppose you will understand the similarities, and I am sure you would not be astonished to see that the culprits are the very same in the case of Syria as they were in the case of Germany.

To the future!

Syria has lost a battle. She will prevail and win the war, as long as there are still Syrians who are willing to prevail. As Safaa Syria wrote, “minds” have to be “liberated before geography.”

This work can be done only by you, the Syrian people.

This liberation, however, will be supported and greatly admired by all your friends around the globe. We are not loud. We are not present in the streets, not present on TV screens. But we are still here, each one of us in our place.

As a sign of companionship, the Syrian flag has been placed in my study since 2011.

God bless Syria.

Sincerely yours,
Stefan

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
Historian, born in 1964, has worked as a lecturer in adult education and, among others, in Human resources development for a US-American company in Germany.

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