A brutal alliance
Sir: With reference to Anne McElvoy's arti- cle (The consequences of a myth', 15 February) on the reparations charged to Germany after the first world war, the recent opening of the Russian state archives has revealed the extent of Ger- many's involvement in the Soviet Union before Hitler came to power. Not only did the Reichswehr regularly conduct joint military exercises with the Soviet army but the Germans assisted with the modernisation of the Soviet armaments industry and even helped Stalin with his agricultural collectivisation programme.
Knowledge of German help for Stalin in the late 1920s calls for a re-evaluation of German military and industrial muscle after the first world war and the moral right of the Allies to collect adequate reparations to prevent Germany returning to war.
Sara Moore
42 Victoria Road, London W8
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