It is a shame there are no liberals left here at Tidewater Forum. They will miss a moment of potential edification.
In the source article Ron Unz documents some of the “alternative” history that accounts for the origins of WW II and shows, after a fashion, that the alternative once was mainstream. He argues that prominent, even eminent, historians published their researches soon after the war, often to critical acclaim; then their findings were suppressed and displaced. The result in our time is a great historical imaginarium upon which so much of contemporary liberalism is based: The hoax that WW II was a “good war” in which fascism was utterly defeated.
It is breathtaking to contemplate that FDR may have engineered WW II to provide economic recovery from the U.S.’s Great Depression. It is similarly breathtaking to contemplate that the Holocaust may be largely if not entirely fictional. Yet Unz outlines precisely these views.
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I don’t know if I buy all of it, but the part about Hitler not wanting to invade Poland, and only wanted the 95% German Danzig region returned, as voted for by the inhabitants, has an uneasy echo today in Ukraine.
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Unz at least shows his work. I give him props for that.
More generally, I am particularly struck by his comments on the Nurenburg trials. They have always seemed a great travesty to me due to the absurd concept that anyone could be prosecuted for “crimes against humanity.” Humanity to my mind is simply an impossible plaintif.
I have been trying to figure out why the world today seems wrong, somehow. Unz may be right or wrong, but I agree that the war in Ukraine appears to be symptomatic of some recognizable error.
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Trying to rewrite World War II is too big a project for me. But I have been studying the major events in my own lifetime and finding many of them very murky. JFK was probably not murdered the way we’re told. 9/11 seems to have many discrepancies, at least that’s what thousands of architects and engineers claim in 9/11 Truth.. And Sandy Hook, which many people think of as a secret event you cannot question, seems to have many many discrepancies.
I think the CIA got good at tricks in World War II and did not want to give up those tricks.
Many people now know about Operation Northwoods “which involved the bombing of civilian targets, which was to be blamed on the Cuban government to paint a false image of Fidel Castro and misinform the American public,” according to Google.
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I meant to say “sacred event.”
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RE: “Trying to rewrite World War II is too big a project for me.”
For me, as well. Still, I think WW II was a turning point in history in many ways. Most important was the convergence of mass communications technology and propaganda. You could say that Hitler’s Germany demonstrated the potential, but in the same breath you’d have to admit that others have exploited it, right up to our own time.
I think the Unz article is helpful for its skepticism more than any rewrite of history.
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