Winston Churchill Caused The Holocaust
This is an interesting hypothesis but I can't say I buy it.
Okay ... he's just crazy. Pat needs to get over his fixation on the illusion of a utopian "western civilization" that never really existed. If he's such a historian, he'd know that civilizations and empires rise and fall/come and go. For someone who is an Irish Catholic, he certainly worshipped the folks who treated his people like dirty dogs. I wish he'd come to grips with the fact that he is not now and will never be a WASP!
Politics makes strange bedfellows, as the old saying goes. Former presidential candidate and current professional Republican pundit Pat Buchanan is one of the few voices on the right that agrees with us on the left about the uselessness of the Iraq invasion and occupation. Unfortunately, to arrive at the same conclusion we have, Buchanan has to hop on the bus to CrazyTown, by way of Isolationist-Ville via the Godwin Express.
Buchanan has written a new book: Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War where he places blame for the Holocaust and WWII at an unconventional target: Winston Churchill. Though I can’t claim to be a history buff to say definitively, Buchanan’s reasoning is a little shaky at best. All this time, I thought it was Hitler that caused the Holocaust. Who knew?
Somehow, Buchanan manages to pull from this Godwin nightmare that had England not promised to save Poland, Hitler would not have exterminated 6 million Jews, and like that unnecessary World War II, the lesson that we should take from that is that Bush is making similar imperialistic entries and taking us into an unnecessary war in Iraq.
Okay ... he's just crazy. Pat needs to get over his fixation on the illusion of a utopian "western civilization" that never really existed. If he's such a historian, he'd know that civilizations and empires rise and fall/come and go. For someone who is an Irish Catholic, he certainly worshipped the folks who treated his people like dirty dogs. I wish he'd come to grips with the fact that he is not now and will never be a WASP!
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Have you read Pat's book or WWII strategic history? I haven't read Pat's book, but extensively on the latter. A fundamental issue many historians are frustrated with in the standardized, sanitized, "victor's version" of WWII is Churchill's blockade of Germany and German occupied France and Poland. The Madagascar Plan- the deportation of Jewry to Germany's annexed French colony of Madagascar was the original anti Semitic strategy of Nazism. Jews were to be stripped of the vast majority of their wealth, and isolated with their own detached economy. They were also to be used as hostages to be used as leverage should Jewish financial institutions in England and the U.S. not compromise with German requests. Immediately following Germany's invasion of Poland, Churchill deliberatly and ruthlessly bombed civilian targets in Germany. This happened long before the Germans retaliated with similar air raids on England or the Holocaust that ultimately transpired. Churchill was also adamant about preventing U.S. food aid or any other food aid from getting through the British naval blockade of German occupied Europe. He was fixed on a strategy of causing the entire population to starve to death. His premise was that eventually the remaining survivors would take all risks to overthrow German occupiers. If they did not, everyone would eventually die of starvation anyway, reaching the objective of eliminating Nazi power. The radicalism of Churchill's strategy is ommited from standardized education, and has been simplified to a depiction of Nazis bent on prosecuting a Holocaust before the war ever began. Hopefully this refresher clarifies revised, standardized history a bit.
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