by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Seventy years ago this week, on Sept. 1, 1939, the Second World War broke out with the German invasion of Poland. Thousands of books have been written about the war. And by now revisionist historians of revisionist historians engage in an endless cycle of disagreement over why the war started, how it ended and what it all meant.
Here are a few more controversial thoughts on the horrific conflict that killed 60 million people, wrecked Europe and set the stage for an ensuing half-century Cold War.
Many blame Germany's aggressions on the supposedly harsh terms of the Versailles Treaty following the First World War, which stripped a defeated Germany of territory, required reparations and dismantled its military.
But Versailles was far more lenient than what the Germans had planned for Britain and France should they have won in 1918. And it was not nearly as harsh as the terms the Germans imposed on a defeated Russia under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in early 1918, before they lost the larger conflict.
A better reason there was a Second World War, but not a Third, is that Germany was occupied and monitored after 1945 — unlike following its previous defeat in 1918.
Most give the Red Army the most credit for wrecking the German army. That is absolutely true: Two of three German soldiers who died in the war were killed on the murderous Eastern Front, a larger theater of conflict than all others combined.
Yet despite the superhuman heroism of millions of brave Russian soldiers, Stalin's Soviet government was largely an amoral actor throughout the war. It, along with Hitler's Germany, invaded neutral Poland in September 1939. Three months later, it attacked tiny Finland.
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6 comments:
When the War ended, the media in America and Europe was much smaller than it is now. There was no internet. Public Education took their marching orders from the government and became (still is today) a propaganda tool of the government.
It is necessary to revise the history (story of events) because the story was not told correctly when it ocurred. Not many people knew of the 3rd Reich's involvement in the Occult. Not many people knew about the Balfour Declaration at the end of WWI to establish Israel as a country. Not many knew the Balfour Declarataion was done with the U.S. and Britian in exchange for the WWI victory. After the U.S. and Britian failed to follow through on the Balfour Declaration, the German Jews were left with no choice but to demand a 2nd war.
The American Jews boycott of German made goods were largely responsible for the demise of Germany's economy prior to WWII. Macy's, Bloomingdales, and others forced the hand of Germany.
Truth does not fear investigation. How many Jews were living in Europe just prior to the War? How many of the victims were Goyim (non-Jews)? Were people really gassed? There is no chemical evidence of gas being used. Was there an effort in the Occult to "thin the blood lines" of Jews? Were the perpetrators in fact Jews themselves? Did they have an eugenics agenda for reasons which are masked by their Occult affiliations?
All pertinent and fascinating questions to be answered. There are many Non-Zionist Jews who want these answers!
Wow. I have never heard these questions much less the answers. Where are the answers? How can we know?
It is hard to know the answers when you dont' know which questions to ask.
From what little knowledge I have of WW2,what Russia lacked in sophisticated weaponry they made up for in sheer numbers.
Pat Buchannon recently wrote about the War and how he thought Hitler had no intentions of world domination. He is a student of history. Much of what he writes is acurate.
Dont tell me who won I want to see the movie!
Seriously though-as Britain might have stood alone it was the US that fed them weapons and supplies early on in the conflict. The Lend Lease program in which we gave them 40 WW1 destroyers for concessions to bases around the world is well documented. Same goes for WW1-it is a known fact that when the Lusitania was sunk she was carrying tons of munitions for the Allied cause. Roosevelt knew it was coming and was sending as much over there as he could while placating the isolationists.
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