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Friday, July 2, 2010
WORLD WAR TWO: THE GERMAN POINT OF VIEW
So much has been written (or more or less regurgitated) concerning World War II that the diligent researcher must be amazed by the comic-book discourse of Hitler and the Nazis as solely men in black whereas we, the good guys, are all decked out in white. This for the majority. A smaller amount of such 'history' is composed of equally farfetched Hitler worshippers, who go to the other extreme and merely switch colors. Nearly invisible among all this pulp is the one really satisfying perspective from a historical point of view: the art of objective appraisal.
The best way of doing so, this researcher has found, is to spend countless hours and a small fortune obtaining the memoirs, diaries and where that fails, biographies of the leading figures of the Third Reich. And while it is true that the Nazis have untold mounds of blood upon their hands, and major repsonsibility for causing a world war it is equally true for every other major power in this conflict, which really began in 1918. Or, as Hitler would say, with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here.
Come, journey into the lives, the loves and strategies of the leading figures of whom conventional 'history' does not want you to know, even though many have long been exploited by the military, intelligence and scientific communities of the two superpowers. Perhaps the ultimate irony of all is that Hitler got exactly what he wanted: a German alliance with England, France, the United States, Italy and Japan, fighting for its very existence against the Communist horde that was the Soviet Union. And, by George, he got it. For Hitler, alas, too late; barely had his ashes been dispersed than his dream alliance became the only reality the world would know for over four decades.
So in a very real sense Hitler was the forger of the the post-war order, strategy and policies which the West and the Japanese adhered to. His technicians became the scientists who made the means whereby the world became peopled by jets-planes, radar, the Volkswagen, and trips to the Moon. And so at last let us peer behind the minds of such men who, by learning what made them tick, shall teach us an awful lot about ourselves. For we are, in a very real sense, their successors.
- Marc Cohen, writing in the Americas, July 2010.
The best way of doing so, this researcher has found, is to spend countless hours and a small fortune obtaining the memoirs, diaries and where that fails, biographies of the leading figures of the Third Reich. And while it is true that the Nazis have untold mounds of blood upon their hands, and major repsonsibility for causing a world war it is equally true for every other major power in this conflict, which really began in 1918. Or, as Hitler would say, with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here.
Come, journey into the lives, the loves and strategies of the leading figures of whom conventional 'history' does not want you to know, even though many have long been exploited by the military, intelligence and scientific communities of the two superpowers. Perhaps the ultimate irony of all is that Hitler got exactly what he wanted: a German alliance with England, France, the United States, Italy and Japan, fighting for its very existence against the Communist horde that was the Soviet Union. And, by George, he got it. For Hitler, alas, too late; barely had his ashes been dispersed than his dream alliance became the only reality the world would know for over four decades.
So in a very real sense Hitler was the forger of the the post-war order, strategy and policies which the West and the Japanese adhered to. His technicians became the scientists who made the means whereby the world became peopled by jets-planes, radar, the Volkswagen, and trips to the Moon. And so at last let us peer behind the minds of such men who, by learning what made them tick, shall teach us an awful lot about ourselves. For we are, in a very real sense, their successors.
- Marc Cohen, writing in the Americas, July 2010.
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