The 'Good War' Myth of World War Two.

[Larry Davis]

An interesting read, as long as one keeps an open mind and leaves the Jingoistic tendencies securely locked in the bottom drawer.


INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW

The 'Good War' Myth of World War Two

By Mark Weber


http://www.ihr.org/news/weber_ww2_may08.html

[Robert Shoaf]

The Institute for Historical Review is apparently known for being in the forefront of Holocaust denial, among other , ahem, controversial viewpoints.
The fact that Howard Zinn is quoted is enough for me.
Yet again, the same old tired attempts to equate Allied "atrocities" and "war crimes" as no different than those perpetrated by the Axis. Did they happen? Of course they did, and the Bombing of Dresden, for example, was a terrible tragedy, but we weren't making those real time decisions in 1945, were we?
Quoting Lindbergh and Lidell-Hart, whose opinions of Nazi Germany were, let's say. not in the mainstream, does not help the author's case.
Not a serious argument, IMHO.

Bob Shoaf

[pasoleati]

Why should someone's opinion be "mainstream" to make it credible? I have read Liddell-Hart's history of WW2 and I cannot fathom how anyone can make that book a pro-NS one.

As for IHR, it published e.g. Joachim Hoffman's "Stalin's War of Extermination", a book that is most objective and solidly researched and argued. Speaks volumes that one ADL-activist's review on amazon.com has no substance, just complaints about its publisher. That same reviewer, by the way, thrashes Jason Mark's "Death of the Leaping Horseman"...

[pasoleati]

I read Weber's text, and apart from an annoying overuse of adjectives he makes very solid points. Wolf Halsti, a Finnish officer of German heritage, a winner of the Mannerheim Cross and a very erudite observer, and definitely an anti-NS person and pro-democracy, wrote is his memoirs that once he and his friends realized that Britain and the U.S. are going to side with Stalin they were shocked. They had expected that the "Western democracies" would let the dictators exhaust each others and once the dictators had done so, the Allies would enter into fray. They could never understand Roosevelt's ideology.

[k9mike]

I read Weber's text, and apart from an annoying overuse of adjectives he makes very solid points. Wolf Halsti, a Finnish officer of German heritage, a winner of the Mannerheim Cross and a very erudite observer, and definitely an anti-NS person and pro-democracy, wrote is his memoirs that once he and his friends realized that Britain and the U.S. are going to side with Stalin they were shocked. They had expected that the "Western democracies" would let the dictators exhaust each others and once the dictators had done so, the Allies would enter into fray. They could never understand Roosevelt's ideology.

Good point Bro...I guess..."the enemy of my enemy is my friend"...even if he is REALLY F*cked up...lol

[PANZER332]

An interesting read, as long as one keeps an open mind and leaves the Jingoistic tendencies securely locked in the bottom drawer.


INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW

The 'Good War' Myth of World War Two

By Mark Weber


http://www.ihr.org/news/weber_ww2_may08.html

You will learn a lot from them ..., Recommended

[Josh Cowell]

I read Weber's text, and apart from an annoying overuse of adjectives he makes very solid points. Wolf Halsti, a Finnish officer of German heritage, a winner of the Mannerheim Cross and a very erudite observer, and definitely an anti-NS person and pro-democracy, wrote is his memoirs that once he and his friends realized that Britain and the U.S. are going to side with Stalin they were shocked. They had expected that the "Western democracies" would let the dictators exhaust each others and once the dictators had done so, the Allies would enter into fray. They could never understand Roosevelt's ideology.

According to the book "The war that had many fathers." Roosevelt wanted a war against both Germany and Japan and coerced his allies to do the same, while pushing Germany into a corner both politically, and economically. He also stepped up US naval shipping production while calling for Germany to whittle theirs down. In a private letter to his son, he said that in order to increase US military and economic might, Germany's economy had to be weakened and that he'd do anything to increase US imperialism. In order to protect the US Gold standard's world supremacy, he pressured the allies to ban Germany's barter and trade system which they established as a result of the allies' food and materials embargoes against Germany. Meanwhile, demanding heavy war reparations from Germany, which could not pay these as a result of said embargoes.