WITH reference to Giuseppe Enrico Bignardi’s letter (HAS, May 1), does he realise that Walter Hallstein, the German academic, diplomat and politician, was one of Adolf Hitler’s closest deputies.
He was given the responsibility for finding an alternative to maintain Germany’s dominance in Europe after the country's defeat in the Second World War.
He was a member of the Nazi party throughout the war and developed the idea of a Federal States of Europe, which is the blueprint for the present EU.
He was elected to the post of First President of the Commission of the European Economic Community in 1958, which he held until 1967, and was a founding father of the present EU.
His doctrine, developed in 1944, is almost an exact version of the present EU structure - a Federal States of Europe - with an extra and unnecessary level of government for the countries involved.
All of these facts can be easily verified.
My response is simple: do we really want to be controlled the German economic machine?
Brian Sutherland, Sedgefield
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