I was meaning to post this tomorrow but decided to go ahead and post this today. Tomorrow is the 73rd anniversary of the German army crossing into Poland, causing Britain to declare war on September 3rd. The last words in this column are definitely true. World War II: the war that will be a mortal blow to our civilization.

"On Sept. 1, 1939, 70 years ago, the German Army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, Britain declared war.

Six years later, 50 million Christians and Jєωs had perished. Britain was broken and bankrupt, Germany a smoldering ruin. Europe had served as the site of the most murderous combat known to man, and civilians had suffered worse horrors than the soldiers.

By May 1945, Red Army hordes occupied all the great capitals of Central Europe: Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Berlin. A hundred million Christians were under the heel of the most barbarous tyranny in history: the Bolshevik regime of the greatest terrorist of them all, Joseph Stalin."



"The Sudeten Germans were returned to German rule, as they wished. Poland had annexed the tiny disputed region of Teschen, where thousands of Poles lived. Hungary’s ancestral lands in the south of Slovakia had been returned to her. The Slovaks had their full independence guaranteed by Germany. As for the Czechs, they came to Berlin for the same deal as the Slovaks, but Hitler insisted they accept a protectorate.

Now one may despise what was done, but how did this partition of Czechoslovakia manifest a Hitlerian drive for world conquest?

Comes the reply: If Britain had not given the war guarantee and gone to war, after Czechoslovakia would have come Poland’s turn, then Russia’s, then France’s, then Britain’s, then the United States."



"Indeed, why would he want war when, by 1939, he was surrounded by allied, friendly, or neutral neighbors, save France? And he had written off Alsace, because reconquering Alsace meant war with France, and that meant war with Britain, whose empire he admired and whom he had always sought as an ally.

As of March 1939, Hitler did not even have a border with Russia. How then could he invade Russia?

Winston Churchill was right when he called it 'The Unnecessary War' – the war that may yet prove the mortal blow to our civilization."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan115.html

One thing that I find sickening is all of the talk one hears about "the good war", .

Good as the idea is America=never does anything bad and is always just.because....well, we say so.......and destroy oppositional voices......

You've got that right Belloc, if Germans, Russians, what have you, massacre an entire village, or perpetrate some other atrocity, they deserve to be punished with the utmost severity (which I don't deny, evil is evil, regardless of who is carrying it out), but if the U.S. does the exact same thing, killing hundreds of people at a wedding in Afghanistan, because a bogeyman, oh I mean "terrorist" was supposedly there, well then, that's perfectly all right. All of the ball-game watching hooligans that like to scream "yeah!!!! get them dirty A-rabs" will be singing a different tune when their loving government starts doing to them, what they've been doing to the unfortunates in other countries.

You've got that right Belloc, if Germans, Russians, what have you, massacre an entire village, or perpetrate some other atrocity, they deserve to be punished with the utmost severity (which I don't deny, evil is evil, regardless of who is carrying it out), but if the U.S. does the exact same thing, killing hundreds of people at a wedding in Afghanistan, because a bogeyman, oh I mean "terrorist" was supposedly there, well then, that's perfectly all right. All of the ball-game watching hooligans that like to scream "yeah!!!! get them dirty A-rabs" will be singing a different tune when their loving government starts doing to them, what they've been doing to the unfortunates in other countries.

Well I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been utter castrophes and I never supported them but if you want to talk about some terrorism from World War II well...

The French maquis and Italian partisans committed terrorism; when Churchill ordered his agents to "set Europe ablaze" which meant the assasination of German pilots and military officers, execution of collaborators, and bombing of buildings, that was terrorism; the firebombing of Dresden, Hamburg and Tokyo was terrorism; the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was terrorism.

World War II really reverted Western Man back to methods of barbarism that earlier generations would have recoiled in horror over and Churchill was responsible for that.

Another thing I find ironic: Chamberlain is considered naive, evil, and a fool for trying to negotiate with Hitler in Munich, but FDR and Churchill signed over all of Eastern Europe and half of Germany to Stalin, and yet they supposedly had 'statesmanlike wisdom.' Speaking of the Russians committing massacres...it is well known that the Soviets ethnically cleansed 15 million Germans from their homeland and raped and murdered 2 million.

And so in regards to strategy the Allies (Britain and America) could stand as equals among Ghenghis Khan, Tamerlane, Sennacherib, and the Red Army.

It was a completely unnecessary war and, no matter how you look at it, this war pitted evil against evil.  

It was a completely unnecessary war and, no matter how you look at it, this war pitted evil against evil.

Yeah I find it funny (not really) that Churchill said how "nαzι tyranny" and "Prussian militarism" was "the root cause of all of our evils" and then several years later would call for arming those same Germans who he castigated as "Huns" to defend Western civilization. Stalin always had in mind what Europe would look like after the war. Churchill seemed not to think too hardly or deep about it if Germany, Europe's ancient barrier to Oriental barbarism and despotism, was taken out.