In Defense of WW2 Part 1 of 5

Victor Davis Hanson and Christopher Hitchens take on the WWII revisionists, centering on Patrick J. Buchanan, the author, most recently, of Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. In terms of the origins of the conflict, Buchanan says essentially that Britain's guarantee to protect Poland in the event of a German invasion made the war inevitable. Hanson counters that Germany's invasion of Poland was not an isolated act. Hitchens says Buchanan is "consciously trying to deceive us."

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[PoetsLight]

best interviewer ever

[TKKTism]

Let's face it, like what's said by one commentator, Churchill continued war against Germany and sent British lives through hell because he loved playing war.

[spader49]

@qwertypoiu4321 your main error is that you think that Germans under foreign rule, 'enslaved' as you put it, is a justification for Germany invading that country. There were Germans in the Baltic, in Russia, in the UK etc, was germany entitled to all the world due to that? Under the BL treaty, the Russian Empire lost 1/4 of its entire population to German rule btw. And it was only the Nazis who made slaves out of Europeans: forced labour and murdered millions, 3000 per day in Poland 1939-45.

[spader49]

@qwertypoiu4321 you constantly point out how many germans became minorities in other countries after WWI, how does that justify putting millions of czechs under german rule? how does it explain the fascist imperialism? The subjugation of a non-german people. Its absurd to think that the allies would enable a 'greater germany' to emerge after 1918, a merger between austria and germany, given that they had not fought a war with them just to make them stronger.

[qwertypoiu4321]

Germany invaded the SU as the only possible war measure to take out the only potential west ally they were capable of. The mangled Munich policy was forced on Germany, still leaving millions of Germans under foreign rule, the main problem that if avoided would have dissolved Nazi's and WWII. The Versailles declaration of war was illegitimate, and this chopping up and putting under foreign rule millions of Germans was many *times* worse than unrelated BL from WWI.

[spader49]

@qwertypoiu4321 Hitler said that 'basically national-socialism and marxism are the same' in November 1939, and then invaded USSR in 1941. He also said in 1938 at Munich that he would make no further territorial claims after sudetenland, and then invaded prague etc. What he said what not always indicative of what he did or believed. Hitler had also broken most of the Versailles terms by 1936. Also Versailles was not as harsh as the 1917 treaty of Brest-litovsk the Germans imposed on the Russians.

[qwertypoiu4321]

@spader49 No British-US invasion, no genocide reaction; that is what Hitler said 1939-1-30.

The Versailles declaration of war enslaved millions of Germans to foreign rule; if Britain would have reversed that in the 1920s there would have been no Nazi/Hitler rule; if Britain would have reversed that in the 1930s there would have been no WWII.

[spader49]

@qwertypoiu4321 Everything you've written suggests you have a latent admiration for the world's worse dictator, Hitler, and want to try and distort history to put a moderate veneer on his legacy.If Hitler's Holocaust was a response to WWII, then why as they said jeopardize winning WWII on trying to kill them? why start killing jews from all parts of the world in the middle of a war in the first place? One law in 1933 said jews were 'pollution'. Its obvious you are very ignorant and mentally ill.

[spader49]

It is always sad to read so many derangements about Hitler, how the Holocaust was a response to the 'invasion' by Britain, or his Foreign policy was 'moderate'.

Hitler had by the mid 1930s violated the bulk of the terms under the Versailles treaty, militarized Germany, invaded Czechoslovakia, Austria, and then Poland. How is invading three countries moderate?And how does Germany's invasion of Poland amount to an invasion of Germany?Many idiots need to learn some history.