Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Deutsche Welle, a German international broadcaster, financed by who they don’t say, reports that the German government is going to criminalize denying war crimes. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-criminalizes-denying-war-crimes-genocide/a-63834791?maca=en-newsletter_en_bulletin-2097-xml-newsletter&r=57279351345253404&lid=2353404&pm_ln=177220
Neither Deutsche Welle nor the German government reveals who it is who gets to determine the unchallengeable war crimes.
Germany gave in to the Jewish lobbies and long ago criminalized “Holocaust denial.” I have wondered why. If the Holocaust is true, it can stand on the facts and remain undamaged by unsupported denials. What the criminalization of inquiry and debate does is to prevent us from knowing the true dimension and history of the Holocaust. My understanding from reading is that Austria, some other European countries and Canada do not permit any examination of the Holocaust. We are simply told that it is true, but it can’t be examined, and that is the end of it.
The Germans have suffered substantially from declared and unexamined “truths.” In World War I Germany was accused of its soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies. (In the 21st century a version of this falsehood was repeated against Iraqi troops in Kuwait.) The propaganda created enormous hatred for Germany. These decades later after the normalization of mothers bayoneting their own babies, it might not have the same effect. But what if it had been legislated a criminal act to investigate whether German soldiers murdered Belgian babies? The propaganda would rule.
Germany also was blamed for decades as the government that caused WW I, a war that put Western civilization on an uninterrupted path of decline and collapse. In 1926 a distinguished American historian, Harry Elmer Barnes, put the lie to this false claim in his book, The Genesis of the World War. Marshaling enormous quantities of official documents and telegrams, he proved beyond all doubt that WW I was orchestrated by the President of France and ministers of the Russian Tsar.
Germany was caught off guard by the Russian mobilization, and Germany was the last country to mobilize. How can it be that the country accused of starting the war mobilized only after Russian troops were pouring or about to pour into Prussia? Barnes upset the court historians, who called him a “German agent” (the same ilk called me a “Russian agent” for giving a truthful account of the Ukraine/Russian conflict), but in the 21st century Cambridge University historian Christopher Clark reached Barnes’ conclusion in The Sleepwalkers.
(Briefly, The Russian Tsar was deceived by ministers on whom he relied who had been conspiring without the Tsar’s knowledge for years with France’s Poincare to start a war that would let Russia seize the straits that connect the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and France retake Alsace Lorraine from Germany. The British Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey, might had misled Parliament and the British king in favor of a war that would rid Britain of Germany as a rival. The Russian-French excuse was the Austrian-Hungarian Empire’s response to the assassination by Serbians of the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne.
The war was disastrous for all concerned. The Russian government was overthrown. The best government Germany ever had was destroyed. The Austrian-Hungarian Empire ceased to exist, the British were financially exhausted and lost a generation of leaders, the Versailles Treaty imposing war guilt on Germany was so shameful and impractical that it produced WW II which finished off the European powers.)
Suppose some dumbshit government had criminalized doubting German guilt for World War I. We would today have no idea of the true story. So what are we to make of the German government’s criminalization of skepticism of alleged war crimes.
What are we witnessing here? Is the German government enacting legislation to protect war propaganda from skepticism? Is the purpose of the law to make it impossible to understand the Ukraine conflict as anything but a Russian war crime? Is the German government determined, by preventing any examination and presentation of the evidence, to blame Russia, just as the German government blames Germany for World War II? More generally, throughout the Western world, white ethnicities are blamed for racism and slavery of people of color, charges they are not permitted to challenge. An assertion against a white ethnic is considered a conviction.
So we come back to the new German law against denying war crimes. The law provides no criteria for deciding who, and what process in whose hands, establishes the responsibility for declaring war crimes that are true by diktat. In other words, it is nothing but a propagandistic law to apply to whoever the West wants demonized, sanctioned, and overthrown.
The Western world in the past rested on open debate and presentation of evidence to decide truth. Those days are behind us. Today truth is declared from above and ensconced in official narratives that cannot be challenged. Truth is now “misinformation.”
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Abolish the state.
You CAN’T. Even Satan can’t abolish what GOD has Ordained.
Fallen Man rejected GOD’s Leadership, so GOD punished Man by making him govern himself.
You see how THAT worked out over the last few thousand years, don’t you?
Trying?
It passed in the Bundestag (~House) on 11/25 ago, was not blocked/vetoed by the Bundesrat (~Senate),
and now only needs the signature of the Bundespäsident to become German law.
It’s a done deal.
“Deutsche Welle, a German international broadcaster, financed by who they don’t say, …”
Ummmm ………. JOOS!!!!
All state sanctioned history is a lie, but not Bolshevik truths about burned bodies. They never lie.
Hitler wouldn’t have been the first.
The last chapter of Degrelle’s book, linked below, details his escape to Spain. It is a fascinating read.
Campaign In Russia: The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front
by Leon Degrelle
https://archive.org/details/Campaign-in-Russia-Leon-Degrelle
1914 was the pinnacle of Western civilization. Leave it up to the rotten toothed , sallow faced Brits , to fuck that up too, but it all began with their degenerate fat slob King , Henry the VIII, his bastard witch daughter and a money lender’s op masqueraded as Church Reformation. It’s been all downhill since then.
“Most of England’s appalling troubles today are due to a bad guess: she went into the war on the wrong side in 1914. The theory of her statesmen, in those days, was that, by joining France and Russia, she would give a death-blow to a dangerous rival, Germany, and so be free to run the world. But the scheme failed to work; moreover, it had unexpected and almost fatal results. Not only did Germany come out of the mess a dangerous rival still; France also became a rival, and a very formidable one. Worse, the United States was pumped up to immense proportions, and began to challenge England’s control of the world’s markets. The results are now visible: England has three competitors instead of one, and is steadily going downhill. If she had gone into the war on the German side she’d be in a much better situation today. The Germans would be grateful for the help and willing to pay for it (while the French are not); the French would be down and out, and hence unable to menace the peace of Europe; Germany would have Russia in Europe and there would be no Bolshevik [communist] nuisance; England would have all of Siberia and Central Asia, and there would be no Japanese threat and no Indian revolt; and the United States would still be a docile British colony, as it was in 1914. . . .
The United States made a similar mistake in 1917. Our real interests at the time were on the side of the Germans, whose general attitude of mind is far more American than that of any other people. If we had gone in on their side, England would be moribund today, and the dreadful job of pulling her down, which will now take us forty or filthy years, would be over. We’d have a free hand in the Pacific, and Germany would be running the whole [European] Continent like a house of correction. In return for our connivance there she’d be glad to give us whatever we wanted elsewhere. There would be no Bolshevism [communism] in Russia and no Fascism in Italy. Our debtors would all be able to pay us. The Japs would be docile, and we’d be reorganizing Canada and probably also Australia. But we succumbed to a college professor [Wilson] who read Matthew Arnold, just as the English succumbed to a gay old dog who couldn’t bear to think of Prussian MP’s shutting down the Paris night-clubs.
As for the mistake the Russians made, I leave it to history.”
– H.L. Mencken (Baltimore Evening Sun, Nov. 11, 1931, “A Bad Guess”
So sad to read.
They still have a long way to go to catch up with the Canadian laws.
Only the guilty try to hide the truth.
Paul Craig Roberts is dispensing his own untruths in this article. He is right the Russians and French wanted war, but so did the Germans. They were not the last to mobilize their military forces, and had done much to promote the war by giving Austria a blank cheque in their confrontation with Serbia. Above all they had the Schlieffen Plan ready for the conquest of France, and Germany. This revisionist history by Mister Roberts is counter productive to his more noble efforts of bringing attention to western aggression against Russia.
Some smart guy said
“Truth needs no defense. Set it free and it will defend itself”.
Can’t do that?
Lies are sure to follow.