Truth Is Gaining Ground on the Lies of World War II

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

Years ago concerned with Washington’s growing provocation of Russia, I made the remark in a column that Hitler, like Napoleon, destroyed himself by marching off into Russia. I suggested we not repeat the folly. Two readers corrected me.  They informed me that Hitler had no choice.  Hitler’s decision was not based on hubris or miscalculation. A former Russian KGB official with access to the documents had defected to the West and written a book that proved that Stalin was preparing to invade Germany and overrun all of Europe and that Hitler had no alternative but to strike first, even though Germany was unprepared for such a war, before Stalin completed his preparations.

I was too much under the influence of the WW II narrative to believe them.  I didn’t see how Stalin could attack when he had not that long before purged the ranks of the officers of the Red Army.  I also believed, as some historians taught, that Hitler was frustrated that the British government would not agree to sign a peace threaty favorable to the British that promised Germany’s military protection of the British Empire.  Hitler allegedly attributed the British refusal to end the war to the British belief that the Soviet Union could be brought in on the British side to replace defeated France.  Therefore, Hitler decided to remove this British hope by knocking out Russia.

All of this made sense to me, but it was wrong as I discovered when i read Viktor Suvorov’s book, The Chief Culprit (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2008). Suvorov blaimes Stalin for World War II.  He points out that Stalin used the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to lure Hitler into attacking Poland, which Stalin knew would cause Britain and France to declare war on Germany and begin a great conflict. Stalin thought it would last for years as WWI did and leave Europe and England exhausted.  In would walk the Red Army and the Communist world revolution would have made a huge advance.

Stalin was stunned by the rapidity with which Franch and England collapsed. Germany’s quick victory forced Stalin to move his plan forward.  According to Suvorov and other informed parties, Stalin was within two or three weeks of attacking Germany when Hitler struck.

Suvorov shattered the cafefully constructed and protected World War II narrative and became an instant pariah.  The Russians were the most infuriated as the defeat of Nazi aggression in the Great Patriotic War is a foundation of Russian unity.  As was David Irving whose histories disturbed the narrative, Suvorov was set upon and denounced, but no evidence was presented to refute him.

Now Sean McMeekin has written Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II which validates Suvorov’s book, only McMeekin somehow manages to get the credit for himself and without arousing the denunciations that were Suvorov’s reward.  Laurent Guyenot gives you the run-down here:

https://www.unz.com/article/barbarossa-suvorovs-revisionism-goes-mainstream/

I highly recommend Guyenot’s article to you.  The lies we have been told are even larger than the ones I exposed in my popular columns on the fake history of World War II.

We live in narratives made of lies.  To see truth peeking through here and there is hopeful.

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Just Sayin'
Just Sayin'
May 12, 2021 7:58 am

ALL War’s in the 20’th Century were Bankster wars, and it continues to this day.

Just Sayin’

Falco
Falco
  Just Sayin'
May 12, 2021 8:15 am

Them and freemasons, which are one at the same at the highest levels =Satanists

Georges S
Georges S
  Falco
May 12, 2021 8:31 am

Are you calling the Founding Fathers Satanists? Can I remind you that the White House was infiltrated by the communists in the early days of Stalin’s government. If they could have infiltrated the government, why couldn’t they just as easily have infiltrated the masons?

motley
motley
  Georges S
May 12, 2021 10:12 am

Numerous founding fathers were freemasons. So .. yeah.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  motley
May 12, 2021 12:35 pm
Ken31
Ken31
  Georges S
May 12, 2021 1:19 pm

If the founding fathers were moral God fearing patriots, we would have an Articles of Confederation. It turns out only a bit more than half were like that, and they had less money than the other half.

falconflight
falconflight
  Georges S
May 12, 2021 3:40 pm

And the Catholic Church…like Saul Alinsky.

gatsby1219
gatsby1219
May 12, 2021 8:46 am
TampaRed
TampaRed
May 12, 2021 8:57 am

“did hitler want war”
i was on pat buchanan’s site earlier & saw this on the sidebar–this column is from 2009–

Did Hitler Want War?

flash
flash
  TampaRed
May 12, 2021 9:21 am

He wrote the book… highly recommended reading.

Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War

https://archive.org/details/ChurchillHitlerAndTheUnnecessaryWar

flash
flash
May 12, 2021 9:19 am

The Soviet Union was a Western creation. Yes. We built that and the greatest generation did squat to stop it. Now the Bolsheviks own US too.

From Major Jordans Diaries
by George Racey Jordan

My reason for writing this book is very simple: I would like to keep the record straight. I want to put in permanent form. the full story of my experiences as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russians during the war, when I served for two crucial years, from May 1942 to Lune 1944, both at Newark Airport and at the big air base at Great Falls, Montana.

I went into the Army as a businessman in my forties and a veteran of World War I. From the first, as my story shows, I worked wholeheartedly on behalf of the Russians because, like everyone else, I considered it my duty to do so. That they were satisfied with my efforts is indicated by the fact that it was Colonel Kotikov, head of the Russian mission at Great Falls, who requested my promotion to Major.

But the tremendous volume of Lend-Lease material going through under “diplomatic immunity,” the infiltration of SOviet agents through the Pipeline, the shipments of non- supplies and even military secrets, were more than I could stomach. I finally protested through proper channels, first in Great Falls, and then in Washington; nothing happened. This was in 1944, while I was still in the Army.

https://archive.org/details/FromMajorJordansDiaries1952Signed?q=from+major+jordan%27s+diaries

Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR My Exploited Father In Law
by Curtis B. Dall

Dedicated to young Americans-May you benefit from observing how certain shadowy forces contrive to ruthlessly advance their own financial and ideological objectives at your expense. They select, then groom, and ultimately control many of our highest government officials. They plan the wars and through “foreign policy” arrange to set the stage for incidents to initiate hostilities. They overwork the word “Peace” to mislead you and create a plausible smoke screen in order to conceal their real operations. You can recognize who “they” are.
Hence, I say, young Americans, be alerted-be more effective than my unsuspecting and bemused generation.. Sally-forth, defend and preserve for yourself and those who follow you our great heritage of freedom and liberty.

https://archive.org/details/DallCurtisB.FranklinDelanoRooseveltFDRMyExploitedFatherInLaw1970

flash
flash
May 12, 2021 9:26 am

Where’s the lie?

“I do not believe that this primal difference between gentile and Jew is reconcilable. There will be irritation between us as long as we are in intimate contact. For nature and constitution and vision divide us from all of you forever . . . I have no doubt that when Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or name or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours . . . We have joined your capitalistic world in deliberate emulation and rivalry: yet Jewish socialism and Jewish socialists are the banner bearers of the world’s “armies of liberation.” . . . But you feel our disruptive difference most keenly, most resentfully, in our deliberate efforts to change your social system. Seen in the dazzling lights of your desires and needs our ideal is repellently morose . . . Because your chief institution is the social structure itself, it is in this that we are most manifestly destroyers. We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands.”

You Gentiles
By Samuel, Maurice, 1895-1972
https://archive.org/details/YouGentiles

“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control. … Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
~ Larry P. McDonald
U.S. Congressman, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets
in “Introduction” to The Rockefeller File, by Gary Allen (1975)
https://archive.org/details/TheRockefellerFile

“ World War II ended the “depression.” The same Bankers who in the early 30’s had no loans for peacetime houses,food and clothing, suddenly had unlimited billions to lend for Army barracks, K-rations and uniforms! A nation that in 1934 couldn’t produce food for sale, suddenly could produce bombs to send free to Germany and Japan!… Germany issued debt-free and interest-free money from 1935 and on, accounting for its startling rise from the depression to a world power in 5 years. Germany financed its entire government and war operation from 1935 to 1945 without gold and without debt, and it took the whole Capitalist and Communist world to destroy the
German power over Europe and bring Europe back under the heel of the Bankers. Such history of money does not even appear in the textbooks of public (government) schools today. ”

Sheldon Emry
Billions For Bankers, Debts for the People
https://archive.org/details/Billions20for20the20bankers

“The Nazis came to power in Germany on 1933, at time when its economy was in total collapse, with ruinous war-reparation obligations and zero prospects for foreign investment or credit. Yet through an independent monetary policy of sovereign credit and a full-employment works program, the Third Reich was able to turn a bankrupt Germany, stripped of overseas colonies it could exploit, into the strongest economy in Europe within four years, even before armament spending began. “

Henry C K Liu
World Order, Failed States and Terrorism
PART 10: Nazism and the German economic miracle
http://henryckliu.com/page105.html

flash
flash
May 12, 2021 9:36 am

“For the Marxist reviled the man of faith and ideals as bitterly as he did the financial exploiter. It was his creed that nothing existed in the world but matter and that no motive
could animate and man but self-interest. The great-organized institutions and societies based on faith and love and maintained by self-sacrifice though which man had raised himself above the primeval slime were to be ruthlessly destroyed and their adherents liquidated. First, they were to be undermined by criticism repeated again and again until
the corrosive ate into the old State so thoroughly that finally crumbled to pieces. Mob violence was to finish the process. The world would then be ready for an international
order that admitted of neither separate race, nor tradition, nor religion and in which all men would be subordinated as unthinking automatons to a single ruling clique Marxist intellectuals and bureaucrats .

For Hitler was accurate enough to realize that the Marxists did not stand for the freedom they pretended, but for a despotic uniformity, enforced by terror and annihilation of all who opposed them. In this, they differed only in their superior violence from the international financiers and exploiters they professed to supplant. Like Belloc and other earlier modern socials philosophers, Hitler perceived the twin roads down which mankind was being herded toward the servile state. First came the economic development which changed the social structure of the nation and substituted for its old feudal rulers, who at least had a certain sense of responsibility and noblesse oblige, the financier and the middle man who had none. Under the joint-stock company system, the search for profits became the sole guiding principle for life. The small artisan class slowly disappeared and the factory worker, who took his place, had scarcely any chance establish an independent existence of his own, but soon sank to the proletariat level. His present and future passed into the sole power of the man of figures who, calling himself his employer or master, acknowledged no responsibility for his moral or physical wellbeing. The hungry sheep looked up and were not fed.

The member of the new social class so created were “disinherited “in a treble sense. They were deprived of their independence. They were herded together in vast factory towns under conditions of living and employment that not only ruined their health, but robbed them of all faith in their country and its system of justice. And they were made to feel that the manual labour by which they lived was degrading and inferior to other forms of work. The ancient Order of the Peasantry, as Disraeli had once called it, had been transformed into a herd of helot without privilege or status.

But the process of social leveling was not yet complete. The poor were enslaved, but the higher and middle orders-the last repositories of culture and national social tradition of the past- still remained independent. Their independence was the final barrier that stood between the architects of constructive chaos and their goal. To destroy it no effort could be too great, And here the archenemy of the nation and society, the eternal and denationalized Jew, whom Hitler in his strange obsession saw in all places working to destroy the living state, seized his opportunity. By a masterpiece of ingenuity -“one of the most infamous deceits ever practiced”- the Jew turned the bitterness of the poor, whom his own usurious and irresponsible capitalism had dispossessed, against those who had till now escaped enslavement. “At first he had used the bourgeois class as a battering-ram against the feudal order; now he used the worker against the strongholds of the bourgeois. Just as he had succeeded in obtaining civil rights by intrigue carried on under the protection of the middle class, so now he hoped that joining in the struggle which the workers were waging for their existence he would be able to gain absolute power over them….He kowtowed to the worker, hypocritically pretended to feel pity for him and his lot and even to be indignant at the misery and poverty he had to endure….He showed himself eager to study his hardships, real or imaginary. He strove to waken a longing in the masses to change the conditions under which they lived. Artfully the Jew enkindled that innate yearning for social justice which is a typical Aryan characteristic. Once that desire became conscious it was transformed into hatred against those in more fortunate circumstances of life. The next stage was to give a precise philosophical explanation of this struggle for the elimination of social wrongs. And thus the Marxist doctine was invented.

Yet, the ultimate objective of that sinister Movement was not, it appeared, the triumph of the proletariat, but the domination of those who by exploitation had created the Proletariat – the Jews.”Without knowing it the worker is placing himself at the service of the very power against which he believes he is fighting. In appearance he is made fight against capital, while all the while he is furthering capitalistic interests.” The ultimate aims of Marxism and international Capitalism were in Hitler’s eyes the same: the concentration of all power in the hands of a few, and the elimination of every independent agency that could resist the process. “

Arthur Bryant Unfinished Victory 1940

https://archive.org/details/ArthurBryantUnfinishedVictory1940V1/Arthur%20Bryant%20-%20Unfinished%20Victory%20%281940%29%20-%20v1

Martin
Martin
May 12, 2021 10:17 am

We have wars because they’re profitable. If you were not paying for wars and ‘defense’ with taxes you’d be working a 4-day week and living better too.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
May 12, 2021 10:45 am

I have studied the issue of Stalin´s plans to invade Western Europe for years. I have reached the conclusion that Suvorov ( A GRU officer, not a KGB officer – the GRU is Soviet/Russian military intelligence) hit the nail on the head. Stalin did indeed plan to attack Germany and then roll up the rest of Europe and was confident he could do it. A series of events and miscalculations upset his apple cart.
The “historians” who claim that Stalin had abandoned Communist plans for world conquest and that the Soviet Union´s military build up was to defend itself from a threatening “capitalist” world, are bunk mongers. They lie and they know they lie.
Stalin knew perfectly well that none of the major Western powers (UK, USA, France) had the slightest intention of attacking the USSR – his spies kept him well-informed and they swarmed in every Western government. As for Japan and Germany, Stalin´s military had given Japan a bad bloody nose in 1939 in a significant clash in a disputed region near Mongolia and China (Khalkhin Gol). The Japanese Army, while in some respects formidable, was utterly outclassed by Soviet armor formations, one of several reasons why Japan went south instead of north (which Hitler desperately wanted them to do). As for Germany, it was rearming as fast as it could but despite its advanced technology and the tactical superiority of the Wehrmacht, Germany was in no position to win a war of attrition with the USSR. Knowing that a clash with the Soviets was inevitable and that the Soviet forces were growing stronger by the month, Hitler rolled the dice, betting that his forces could knock the Soviets out in a short but massive campaign. He miscalculated, to say the least.
The court historians point to the rapid collapse of the Soviet forces in June and July of 1941 as evidence that they were unprepared, incompetent, and armed with obsolete equipment. Their humiliating drubbing in the 1939 Winter War with Finland supposedly adds weight to this position.
The facts are far different. The Soviet forces did suffer from some serious deficiencies, some of their equipment was obsolete, and the Soviet system did not lend itself to infusing initiative and imagination into the officer corps. However, the Soviet Union in June 1941 was a huge arsenal with unlimited potential for producing war material, thanks to a brutal program of industrialization financed with the blood of millions of Soviet citizens (and with much of the heavy industrial equipment, technology and know-how supplied by the USA). Stalin had spared no expense in preparing the Soviet Union for an offensive war. The Soviet forces were armed and deployed to attack, not defend. The idea that the Communist regime genuinely feared an attack by any country except Germany is absurd. Germany was a real threat and Hitler always hoped to destroy the Soviet regime but Stalin had cleverly moved the chess pieces to involve Germany in a war with the UK and France, one he thought would be long and drawn out.
Surprise, surprise. The French collapsed and the British had to run for their lives. Now Stalin had to deal with a victorious Germany which had all but rid itself of two of its main enemies. Stalin knew he had to act, and fast. it is likely Hitler beat him to the punch by only a month or two.
The Soviet armies facing the Germans were largely destroyed but the Germans paid a heavy price. Yes, they overran huge areas and took millions of prisoners but the Soviets inflicted terrible losses on them. The Russians were no pushovers, like the French, the British, and the Poles.
The primary reason for the early Soviet catastrophe was the fact that Hitler caught them right in the middle of their preparations to attack Germany. Imagine a powerful heavy weight boxer caught by a middle weight while his trunks are around his ankles. The smaller man will land some tough punches, but weight will eventually tell.
Western historians have covered for the Communist regime for decades, downplaying the importance and effectiveness of a massive world-wide campaign of espionage, sabotage, political subversion, treason, and violence, directed from Moscow.
The Communists never for one minute wavered in their ultimate goals. We have to ask ourselves if the formal disappearance of the Soviet Bloc really changed anything.
I am not a Russophobe. I do not believe Putin is a reincarnation of Stalin. That said, the rot and decay sown by the Soviets in the West in the period 1920-80 is finally coming into full flower, even as the architects of it passed from the scene long ago.

flash
flash
  Southern Sage
May 12, 2021 11:03 am

“know-how supplied by the USA”

Oh ? It was lot’s more than mere know how. Roosevelt allowed the Soviet Union to ass rape America , including the theft of entire mfg facilities , industrial plans and the raw materials to run them , up to and including the right to counterfeit US currency and the plates to make it. I thought you were in the intelligence business . How do you not know this.

The Soviet Union could not have defeated Germany sans the US Lend Lease program.

From Major Jordans Diaries
by George Racey Jordan

My reason for writing this book is very simple: I would like to keep the record straight. I want to put in permanent form. the full story of my experiences as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russians during the war, when I served for two crucial years, from May 1942 to Lune 1944, both at Newark Airport and at the big air base at Great Falls, Montana.

I went into the Army as a businessman in my forties and a veteran of World War I. From the first, as my story shows, I worked wholeheartedly on behalf of the Russians because, like everyone else, I considered it my duty to do so. That they were satisfied with my efforts is indicated by the fact that it was Colonel Kotikov, head of the Russian mission at Great Falls, who requested my promotion to Major.

But the tremendous volume of Lend-Lease material going through under “diplomatic immunity,” the infiltration of SOviet agents through the Pipeline, the shipments of non- supplies and even military secrets, were more than I could stomach. I finally protested through proper channels, first in Great Falls, and then in Washington; nothing happened. This was in 1944, while I was still in the Army.

https://archive.org/details/FromMajorJordansDiaries1952Signed?q=from+major+jordan%27s+diaries

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
  flash
May 12, 2021 1:01 pm

Uh, Flash, yeah I know all of that. Unfortunately I have a job and do not have time to scribble out the history of the 20th century. I attempted to point out that Stalin´s agents wormed into every part of the Western world before WWII, including our government at the highest level. Read the Haunted Wood and the Venona Papers. But more to the point, I was describing events leading up to June 1941, not what came after, which is what you are writing about.

flash
flash
  Southern Sage
May 12, 2021 2:42 pm

Soviet Union began receiving US aid in October 41 so it ain’t like they didn’t have US financial and military support almost from the beginning of the German invasion and the program ran to September 45 , so the US government had climbed into bed with the anti-Christian/Western commies from the jump and fueled their global death cult right up until the end . And that is not even the point. The point is the extent of the good’s, cash and classified documents given to the Soviets….very few, then or now have a clue.

Ken31
Ken31
  Southern Sage
May 12, 2021 2:01 pm

I didn’t even know this wasn’t common knowledge.

flash
flash
  Ken31
May 12, 2021 2:45 pm

The programs is common knowledge, but the extent of the shere volume and type of free shit given away by the US government is mind blowing. If you haven’t read Major Jordan’s book , you haven’t clue. We the People built that Gulag system.

m
m
  Southern Sage
May 12, 2021 2:17 pm

There was close to nothing “sown by the Soviets in the West in the period 1920-80” that lead to the current Western demise.

It was a -likely conscious- decision of Western (=US) “thought leaders” to not learn any moral lessons from WWII, but instead lay a course to beat the Communists at their own game: Materialism uber alles.

But in reality it was the plan to subvert the (at the time) last bastions of Christianity, effectively bribing the GI generation with “well-being” to ignore that ‘finding meaning by being part of people working towards a highest value, higher than themselves’ competing approach.

And it worked beautifully.

GDP, usually gruntled
GDP, usually gruntled
May 12, 2021 10:48 am

Stalin was “within two or three weeks of attacking Germany”? That implies a major offensive that would require massive amounts of men and materiel in place or very close to being in place that close to H-hour.
If that were true I would expect Russia to have had much more success in repelling Germany’s Barbarossa offensive. The Wehrmacht cut through Russian defenses like a hot knife through butter until the Russian winter intervened.
If Stalin really was that close to attacking Germany I don’t think much of his chances.

Lee Harvey Griswald
Lee Harvey Griswald
  GDP, usually gruntled
May 12, 2021 11:53 am

The set-up for offense is different than the set-up for defense… in depth.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
  Lee Harvey Griswald
May 12, 2021 1:15 pm

Indeed. That is exactly why the Germans were able to slice through the Soviet forces n the early days of the war. Also, Soviet command and control disintegrated in many areas when faced with German tactical superiority.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
  GDP, usually gruntled
May 12, 2021 1:13 pm

Perhaps you did not read what I wrote. The Soviets had huge numbers of troops, tanks and aircraft right on the border with German-occupied Polish territory. However, they were badly positioned for defense because that is not why they were there. While it is true the Germans quickly defeated the Soviet forces poorly positioned in these forward areas, it was largely because they were in the middle of setting up their own offensive preparations and were caught on their left feet. I suggest you read what the German generals actually said about the ferocious resistance of the Soviet forces, which caused the German armies enormous casualties. The Russian winter has been blamed for the failure of Barbarossa. In fact, the Russian winter is a rather well-known annual occurrence. The Germans expected the Soviets to fall apart – they did not, despite terrible losses. The Germans hoped to take Moscow and destroy the Soviet armies before the first snows. To their horror, they discovered that the Soviets had many more divisions, tanks and aircraft than even the most pessimistic German estimates made before the war. The German armies lacked the mobility and mass to defeat the Soviets. Why? Because Stalin had been preparing for a major offensive war for more than a decade and had built up a crushing military machine with overwhelming industrial potential. Had Stalin attacked first after completing his offensive preparations, the Germans would have been very hard-pressed to stop him. Hitler and his generals knew this.

Ken31
Ken31
  GDP, usually gruntled
May 12, 2021 2:04 pm

The readings referenced addressed that. Defensive and offensive posture are completely different. 3 weeks short of logistical staging completion is huge. Germany would have broken like a wave on the shore if they were even interested in digging in. Getting those supplies off the trains also would have made a huge difference.

Russia was posturing for a surprise offensive and that is a very vulnerable position.

flash
flash
May 12, 2021 11:22 am

For anyone interested in the war experience of the Waffen soldier on the Eastern Front. This is a fascinating read for any history buff.

Campaign In Russia: The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front
by Leon Degrelle

Campaign In Russia: The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front
The Epic of the Volunteer Wallonian Legion, A Unit of the Pan-European Waffen SS, as Told by Its Leader, Leon Degrelle
The Russians came at dawn, the better part of two regiments, men and tanks silhouetted against the blood-red sun as they moved forward across the steppe. Huddled among the peasants’ huts of Gromovaya-Balka, the men of the Wallonian Legion awaited them, silently cursing the frozen earth, which had offered implacable resistance to their entrenching tools.
Against the oncoming Soviet troops—4,000 of them—and the 14 tanks which accompanied them, the 500 Belgian volunteers who held the village disposed of no weapons heavier than machine guns. Their only hope was to hold on until the German command, hard pressed all along the Samara front, could rush them reinforcements badly needed in other sectors.
Corporal Leon Degrelle crouched behind the frozen carcass of a horse, sighting down the barrel of his MG34. He gave no heed to the bitter cold or to his injured foot, painfully broken two weeks before.
The Russian artillery shells were already landing in the village, inflicting terrible casualties when they were on target. Now the Soviet infantry broke into a run, their blood-curdling battle cry, “Ourrah pobieda!,” “Hurrah for victory!,” ringing in the ears of the French-speaking Walloons, drowning out the cries of the wounded and dying. Degrelle and his comrades began to fire, tearing big gaps in the ranks of the advancing Russians…

https://archive.org/details/Campaign-in-Russia-Leon-Degrelle

flash
flash
  flash
May 12, 2021 12:16 pm

Yes, I’ve read his books. The escape made from Germany to Spain ( barely made it and survived the crash) The dude was an alpha dawg fer’ shure’ .

…another great one here.

Hitler: Born At Versailles
by Léon Degrelle

Léon Degrelle (15 June 1906 – 31 March 1994) was a Walloon Belgian politician who founded Rexism and later joined the Waffen SS (becoming a leader of its Walloon contingent) which were front line troops in the fight against the Soviet Union. After World War II, Degrelle became a prominent figure in national conservative movements throughout the world.

https://archive.org/details/BornAtVersailles

Yahsure
Yahsure
May 12, 2021 11:32 am

That was some incredible BS.

m
m
  Yahsure
May 12, 2021 2:25 pm

Always remember the self-test if you’re stuck in an ideology:
“What would it need, to make you change your mind?”

Thersites
Thersites
  Yahsure
May 12, 2021 2:50 pm

While my skepticism meter bounced up after reading the article, your “incredible BS” allegation did little to resolve the issue. Even a little bit of contrary evidence would be helpful.

Lee Harvey Griswald
Lee Harvey Griswald
May 12, 2021 12:09 pm

Good to see more coverage, but it’s old news for those who’ve been reading outside of the mainstream approved texts. Even before David Irving, AJP Taylor’s “Origins of the 2nd World War” was 1st published in 1961 with an amended edition in 1964. He didn’t quite pay the price Irving did, but…

The old man, who was involved in the unpleasantness, called it horseshit in the 70s. He changed his mind over the years before he died a decade ago.

Remo
Remo
May 12, 2021 12:36 pm

That was very interesting. Many thanks to the author.

bc
bc
May 12, 2021 12:56 pm

3 worthwhile books that are different from the false conventional historical belief taught in American schools as truth.

1st) “Freedom Betrayed” by ex-President Herbert Hoover. Hoover saw that the Roosevelt administration was strangely working hard to get American into an unnecessary war and it was literally Hoover’s life’s work to document it. Nothing was put into the book that was not double sourced, and he had a full time team working on gathering facts, reworking and re-editing the manuscript for years.

2nd) Operation Snow”. Hoover suspected something like this occurred, but the facts did not come out until 1995 after the USSR fell and we got first hand accounts and documentation from Former Soviet NKVD agents that they had a Jewish agent high up in the Roosevelt administration which they had charged with getting the US into war with Japan. That traitor, Harry Dexter White (original name Weiss) was wildly successful as he and a few fellow travelers literally brought about Pearl Harbor and the millions of deaths and horrors that followed.

3rd) As you noted – “The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II” by Viktor Suvorov. One of only 2 USSR GRU agents who defected to the west, Suvorov explains in minute and factual detail why Germany had to attack USSR as a defensive move. At the end you’ll say: “Ahaahaha! THAT EXPLAINS IT!”

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
  bc
May 12, 2021 1:18 pm

All excellent books that help make my points. And yes, I have read Degrelle´s books as well. You have to study the subject seriously to get a realistic view of what WWII was really about. Enough said.

flash
flash
  bc
May 12, 2021 3:16 pm

This book is by FDR’s son-in-law . He saw it all. The Bolshevik infiltration of the FDR household and subsequently his administration. Bolsheviks put FDR in the Whitehouse and like Wilson he repaid in kind.

Bolsheviks were in the WH from the beginning of the Roosevelt administration. Louse Howe not only lived with FDR but was a top advisor under the official title of Secretary to the President.

Howe looks like what I would imagine slimy opportunist Wesley Mouch of the Ayn Rand novel to look like.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR My Exploited Father In Law
by Curtis B. Dall

https://archive.org/details/DallCurtisB.FranklinDelanoRooseveltFDRMyExploitedFatherInLaw1970

ln my rather limited comings and goings around the White House, I had not seen much of the enigmatic
Louis Howe. He was there, however, having moved his sphere of operations from Albany to Washington, D.C. He had not wasted his time while sojourning in New York City, enroute, during the
period from election day in November to March 4th, sometimes referred to as the “lame duck” period.

However, out of the comer of my eye, by chance, on two occasions, I noticed Louis was receiving small
groups of men, shepherding them to a rather inconspicuous side room for a Conference. One morning after breakfast, as I was going upstairs, I saw several men being shown to that side room by a White House usher. Louis was Standing there, ready to greet them. The men seemed to be rather overawed by the surroundings and scurried along behind the usher, looking neither to the right or left. Several of them had what appeared to be a ten days growth of beard on their faces. All in all, they seemed to be a rather unusual looking group to be very early morning White House callers.

They appeared glad to see Louis awaiting them. He received them cordially; they entered the room; the door was closed. I asked the usher who the men were. He replied that he did not know who they were, but that Mr. Howe was expecting callers at 9.00. They were right on time. That brief little scene, including the furtive manner displayed by the callers, plus their over-all appearance, seemed to me vaguely inappropriate in the White House at that hour.

Although I didn’t realize it that morning, from the brief glimpse I had of Louis from a distance, my White House “Valedictory Address” was not far from its presentation. Sometimes “weather” is unpredictable and storms blow up very suddenly without much warning.

About 9:30 that evening, 1 decided to retire early. I stopped at a large room in the middle of the second
floor, as I recall it, to say good night to Mama. She was sitting there conversing with Louis. The President was out attending a dinner, and the second floor appeared to be quite empty.

I always gave Louis great credit for a wonderfully effective political effort in helping FDR to reach the
Presidency. Actually, it appears doubtful to me that he could have made it without Louis’ sustained effort, combined with that of several others. I had heartily congratulated Louis to that effect on inauguration day, whereupon he seemed pleased and also rather surprised.

In any event, the brief evening conversation among the three of us on that final occasion started out very quietly and normally, about unimportant matters. Then I exchanged comments with Mama about some reported public Statements that Jesse Jones had just made, in connection with the banking

Situation, suggesting to her a constructive thought of my own, one which might have been well received in New York.

For some reason unknown to me, Louis decided to brashly inject himself into our conversation at that
point, commenting that my Observation sounded quite typical of Wall Street. The mannerin which he said it stung me. The bridge for those of us in Wall Street had been a long one to travel across, from October, 1929 to March, 1933, and the new politicos and their henchmen apparently hadn’t much use for anyone or anything in Wall Street. I was really stung by Louis’ remark and arose to depart.

The three of us were Standing at the entrance to the large room. Looking straight at Louis, I said, “Louis, who were those men, or should I say characters, that came in here to see you early this morning? Have you been giving them some big jobs? Where do they come from?”

There was a pause. Louis’ dwarf-like face flushed, took on a very angry look, and started to twitch.

He glared, and shot back at me, “Curtis, you had better not talk like that around here.” So, gathering my
forces, 1 thought to myself. “This is it.” I then opened the throttle all the way. “Louis”, I said firmly, “since when have you been appointed a Committee of One to tell me what I am to say, or do, around here? Since when? You watch your Step! For your Information, every one of your early morning callers looked like they came here straight out of Soviet Russia!”

Louis swayed and looked as though he was going to have a heart attack. Mama also became pale at my
words. My question remained unanswered by Louis. The silence became staccato— not a further word was spoken. The time, March, 1933. That was “it!”

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
May 12, 2021 1:16 pm

That was the prime motivating factor for most Germans fighting on the Eastern Front.

falconflight
falconflight
May 12, 2021 3:17 pm

Germany has always had a queer soft spot for the Mohammedans and supports them today over those pesky Jewish interlopers. Immigrant births account for about 25% of all births in Germany. I say that the great bastardization of Germany is well earned. Your protestations regarding the poor Nazis of WWII is the wind beneath my wings.
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https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/immigrants-could-solve-germany-s-birth-rate-crisis-121051000411_1.html

The government of Angela Merkel, in 2015 and 2016, accepted over a million refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. Germany now has the fifth largest population of refugees in the world (after Turkey, Colombia, Pakistan, and Uganda).

This headline-grabbing decision, five years later, has been a remarkable success. The million refugees have prospered, reports the Center for Global Development.

TampaRed
TampaRed
May 12, 2021 3:51 pm

current day america,not ww2 period–
liz traitor cheney was ousted from her leadership position today–

falconflight
falconflight
  TampaRed
May 12, 2021 4:04 pm

Only to be replaced by the gal that voted against Trump’s entire agenda; Elise Stefanik. The GOP base thinks with their BrainStems.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  falconflight
May 12, 2021 4:10 pm

i haven’t checked her out but i thought that she was a trump loyalist–is she a rino or does she have to pretend to not like trump b/c her district leans left?

falconflight
falconflight
  TampaRed
May 12, 2021 7:00 pm

Oh she certainly publicly trumpeted Trump, but her voting record is one of the most leftist in the GOP. She even voted for the Equality Act. It proves to me for the millionth time that the GOProgs… now, then, and forever in the future. No such thing as a RINO. only about 10% of the GOP in both federal chambers are even remotely ‘conservative.’

falconflight
falconflight
  TampaRed
May 12, 2021 7:00 pm

Who ever heard of a politician saying one thing for an election and voting differently. Hmmmm

les online
les online
May 12, 2021 6:11 pm

“War is a fight over who’s gonna be THE BOSS… War is a fight over who’s gonna be YOUR BOSS>”

Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf
May 12, 2021 6:26 pm

“War has its own laws” is abso-fucken-lutely correct in any language and culture. The idiocy of intellectuals feigning to put rules on life and death combat is about as absurd as intellectualism can get and it serves no purpose other than to hamstring a fighting, conquering force as has been done for decades now.

I have a staunch belief in no holds barred warfighting and that will be the difference in the upcoming global/regional conflicts. This communist horseshit was inbred in the 19 teens and really went full tilt with FDR and his commie fucken regime. Now they have come back to roost in the twilight of the empire.

Only good commies are dead and bloated ones.

falconflight
falconflight
May 12, 2021 7:33 pm

Thank goodness that someone is carrying on the legacy and name in Gaza
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Old School Counselor
Old School Counselor
May 13, 2021 6:08 am

This is why the Left is in full-on assault now. They had to censor social media and steal the election, or the gig was up. The lies were being revealed in 2016/17 on the internet because it was the first real opportunity to get past the information gatekeepers. The Overton Window was moving.