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September 11, 2009 (LPAC) — British Empire media the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and The Times of London, on Thursday, published reports, as did Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung today and Süddeutsche Zeitung already six days ago, which document the details of how in 1989 and 1990, then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterrand ganged up to impose the supranational Euro currency on German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, as a condition for the unification of the two Germanys in 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Some 500 pages of secret documents will be released today, Sept. 11, by the British Foreign Office, after only 20 years, despite the fact that such declassification of documents normally occurs only after 30 years. The FT today writes: "The FCO's decision to publish the papers, after a year of deliberation by Whitehall officials, is being seen as an attempt by Britain to set the record straight and show that its diplomats were positive about reunification early on—in spite of Mrs. Thatcher's personal misgivings."

This is a flat-out lie, Lyndon LaRouche stated today. "To my knowledge, from very high-level British sources, in the relevant decade Mitterand was a creature of the British Empire—sort of a parody of Napoleon III, a completely British puppet. Kohl had something to say about this, which we had on record in Germany.

"None of this is new; it's just being said now. All of it was said before; it was said by Kohl himself, in his memoranda on this. So this is not new, this is a rewarming, a re-utterance of facts which coincide with the facts which were well known immediately during that period, and during the aftermath, as in Kohl's remarks on this subject at a later point. Kohl described the situation: this was a reign of terror.

"And George H.W. Bush was in the middle of it—there were no innocent parties in this. That son-of-a-bitch did not support reunification; he totally backed up the British, as he always does. His father had all the brains; he got a dribble of the remainder, and his son got none," LaRouche said.

The newly-released documents report that then Chancellor Kohl's 10-point plan for unification on Nov 28th, 1989, "triggered several private meetings between Mrs., now Lady, Thatcher and Mr. Mitterrand to discuss the German question. Memos detailing those discussions, written by Charles, now Lord, Powell, the then foreign affairs adviser to Mrs. Thatcher, are among the most striking of the documents to be released." Powell reported from a lunch at France's Presidential mansion, the Elysee Palace, on January 20 1990, "that Mr. Mitterrand talked about how reunification would see the re-emergence of the 'bad' Germans who had once dominated Europe. According to the memo, Mr. Mitterrand at one point said that if Chancellor Kohl were to get his way, Germany could win more ground than Hitler ever did and that Europe would have to bear the consequences. Mr. Mitterrand goes on to warn Mrs. Thatcher that if Germany were to expand territorially in Europe, the continent would be back to where it had been one year before the First World War."

The documents show that Thatcher reacted to her own ambassador in Bonn, Christopher Mallaby, whom she considered to be "too soft on reunification and had an 'alarming' view of it."