Cyrpus is not Kursk. Still!

German TV station ZDF is showing a three-part series this week, 'Our mothers, Our Fathers'.

It is about what 'ordinary' German men and women did in World War ll. The good and the bad.

It is a shocking film and is being much discussed in the German media.

This evening's episode showed the stupidity/madness/badness of German soldiers killing deserters when every sensible person knew it was over.

It showed coverage of the battle of Kursk and how soldiers had been so brainwashed to believe Hitler would send relief troops to support them. Madness.

At one stage a voiceover said: "When the Wehrmacht was winning we were fighitng for Germany. From there it moved to fight for our comrades and then in the end we were figthing for our own survival".

Watching the film one is forced to realise how evil and mad all war is. Also it surely must confirm how important the EU is for all of us.

Later in a news programme on RTE in a clip on the crisis in Cyrpus a woman carrying a placard reading 'Fuck Europe' was to be seen.

Who and what institutions in Europe have caused and allowed the present crisis to happen?