The Biggest, Most Wretched Lie Ever Told:
That World War 2 was a "Good War"
by Ralph C. Cinque
President Trump has been reviled by the media for many reasons, but one is that he has defiled U.S. wars. He has called the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq "mistakes." He, reportedly, called the young Americans who went off to fight in the Vietnam War "suckers." And, he refused to visit an American military cemetery in France interring our fallen soldiers from World War 1. And reportedly, he asked whether we were the "good guys" in that war.
We weren't. We had no business fighting it. The Luistania was just a pretext to get us into it, and it was an English ship, not American. The Germans didn't sink an American vessel. They sank a British ship, with whom they were at war, and they sank it in a war zone. It happened to have some Americans on it, but why? The Germans did everything they could to keep Americans off it. They took out full page ads in major American newspapers imploring Americans to stay off British ships. And the reason they sunk the Luistania was because it was loaded with armaments, ours, at a time when we were supposed to be neutral.
It was a catastrophe that the U.S. entered World War 1 because the war was about to sputter out. The Germans, who were winning, offered an armistice, calling for the fighting to end, and for everyone to go home. No winners, no losers, and no reparations. It would have been beautiful because it was the harsh, punitive, crushing terms of the Versailles Treaty that led to the rise of Hitler. But England and France said no because they were counting on the U.S. to enter the war on their side. We did, and our fresh troops and abundant resources turned the tide.
Germany did not want World War 1 and did not start it. It's true that she made the first tactical incursion, but the two largest armies in the world, the French and the Russians, were "mobilized" on her borders, poised to attack, and the Kaiser feared that a simultaneous attack would overwhelm Germany. So, he authorized the first move, but it was only because he thought that war was inevitable. There is a trove of documentary evidence that Kaiser Wilhelm tried hard to prevent World War 1, most famously his correspondence with his cousin, Tsar Nicholas of Russia. Germany had no war objectives that it was seeking except to survive. Germany was not trying to gain any territory. World War 1 was planned and plotted by British elites such as Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner who saw that Germany was rising fast: economically, scientifically, commercially, and militarily, and they wanted to crush her before she overtook England- for good. That, in a nutshell, is what World War 1 was about.
I won't even go into the Vietnam War. You'd have to be out of your mind to think that that was a good war. But, what about the Korean War? Was it a good one? Not even close. The U.S. dropped 655,000 tons of bombs on North Korea- more than it dropped in the whole Pacific theater of WW2. We bombed schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, etc. We killed 2.5 million civilians, and about as many military. And who started it? Professor John Quigley in Ruses for War maintained that our puppet government in South Korea started it. They invaded the North, not vice versa. Other scholars say the same thing, and China, Russia, and North Korea have been saying it all along.
What about our 19th century wars? The Mexican War was a land grab. We wanted the Southwest. We tried to buy it from Mexico, but they weren't selling. So, we conjured up a border incursion by Mexico, and then we attacked. And oh, was it bloody. You know of Henry David Thoreau and his Civil Disobedience, but you probably don't know that the war on Mexico was one of the things he railed about. He said that never before in the history of the world has such a large powerful country attacked such a weak one. John Riley, an American soldier of Irish descent, was so appalled that he switched sides and fought with the Mexicans. And he brought other American deserters with him. They had their own battalion in the Mexican Army called St. Patrick's Battalion.
The Spanish-American War was another land grab. Naval experts and military historians all agree that Spain did not blow up the Maine. Some say it was a spontaneous explosion, while others say it was false flag. I go with false flag because how many ships blow up spontaneously? Can you think of another? But, we got Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Philippines, and the Big Kahuna of course was Cuba. If Henry David Thoreau had been alive, he would have been appalled about that war too. So, if those 19th century wars were bad, were there any good wars in that century? And I won't discuss the Civil War except to say that I am an old Civil War buff, and the truth about that war is far different from the court history. But, there is also the War of 1812 in which England attacked us for continuing to trade with France after they said we couldn't. They crossed the ocean and attacked us, and we had every right to defend ourselves. Sad to say, that was the last legitimate U.S. war.
So, what's left? We're running out of wars. Surely, none of the 21st century wars have been good. Do you want to say that the 19 year war in Afghanistan that is still raging is good? Do you want to say that the Iraq War that killed over a million Iraqis was good? We need to find a good war; one that can justify all the Memorial Day and Veterans Day celebrations that bask in the courage, glory, valor and honor of our fighting men who fought for our freedom and that of others.
You know what war is left. And you know what role it plays in the lexicon and mythology of American military greatness: World War 2. It is the ultimate good war, isn't it? Sure, those other wars were bad, but World War 2? That had to be fought. We had to stop the Nazis; and war was the only way to do it.
World War 2 was the ultimate battle between Good and Evil, where we were good, and the other side was evil. Although, keep in mind that "we" included Joseph Stalin, a monster who killed tens of millions of his own people. and is considered, by many, to be the worst mass murderer who ever lived.
But, before going further into exactly what Joseph Stalin did in World War 2, and for that matter, what Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt did, I want to address what the Nazis did. I want to address the Holocaust. But just a little, because this article is not about the Holocaust. It is about the crimes and atrocities of the Allies during and after World War 2.
First, I think the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany was appalling. And I think anti-Semitism anywhere is appalling. I accept that millions of Jews lost their lives in Nazi concentration camps. How many of them died from outright murder as opposed to disease and starvation, I don't claim to know. Was the total really 6 million? I don't claim to know that either, and I am not here to dispute it. I really just want to make two points.
The first is that, had there been no war, there would have been no Holocaust. Hitler's solution to his "Jewish problem" before the war was emigration, not extermination. He sought to get the Jews out of Germany- alive. The Nazis worked closely and cooperatively with the German Zionist organization to send German Jews to Palestine.
Today, the term "Zionist" is considered derogatory, but it wasn't back then. It just meant that you were pursuing a Jewish homeland in the Middle East. So, the Nazis and the German Zionists worked together to get German Jews settled in Palestine. And it involved economic development for them as well, learning skills such as agriculture. This is a coin, issued jointly by the Nazis and the Zionists, with the Swastika on one side and the Star of David on the other.
As a result of this program, Germany's Jewish population fell from 528,000 at the time Hitler's chancellorship to 167,000 at the start of the war. Of course, some German Jews went to the United States instead. Hitler didn't care- so long as they got out of Germany. And if there had been no war, the number of Jews remaining in Germany would have continued to decline. It would never have gone to zero because there was plenty of intermarriage between ethnic Germans and German Jews. And I can understand why because I love Jewish women. They are often very beautiful, very feminine, and also very warm, personable, smart, and funny. Believe me, I would love to find a Jewish woman.
And of course, those mixed couples had children who were part- Jewish. And the Nazis weren't as draconian to part-Jews, whom they called mischlings. Quite a few part-Jews served in the Nazi Military, and there were even some full Jews. A Jewish researcher named Bryan Rigg wrote a book about it.
https://politicalnigeria.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/jewish-senior-officers-in-hitlers-army/
But, without a war, Jews would have continued leaving Germany, and Germany would have remained a pariah state to the world. But, there is no reason to think there would have been any death camps without World War 2.
So, what caused World War 2? It was caused when Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, and Britain and France declared war on Germany. But, Hitler did not want war with the West, and he had no territorial ambitions in the West.
So, why did Hitler invade Poland? He said he invaded Poland because of atrocities that were being committed against Germans in the city of Danzig, which was given to Poland after WW1, and along the German border.
Now, was there any truth to Hitler's claims? I am going to quote an esteemed Oxford professor, John D. Clare, who said, "there was some truth in this" referring to what Hitler said. And keep in mind: there was a long history of violent clashes between Poles and Germans along their border, even before the rise of Hitler.
But, shortly after Hitler invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east. And there were no claims of atrocities against Russians. So, Stalin had no reason to invade Poland; and not even an excuse. Then, he attacked Finland, and that was a brutal, bloody campaign because the Finns fought back much harder than the Poles.
So, England and France denounced Germany and declared war on her, but to the Soviet Union, which did the same thing, and more, they offered friendship, support, and alliance. And so did the United States.
The Soviet Union was an "evil empire." Isn't that what Ronald Reagan told us? Well, they didn't morph into an evil empire. They were an evil empire from the start and all along. They were evil before they slaughtered Tsar Nicholas and his family in Yekaterinburg in 1918. So, why did we ever align with them? Were we nuts?
Do you have any idea of all Franklin Roosevelt did for "Uncle Joe"? All the food, fiber, steel, oil, bombs, tanks, and planes he sent him, even before the U.S. entered the war? And remember that the Great Depression was still raging in the U.S. So, FDR sent off tons of food to feed the Soviet Army that could have gone to feed hungry Americans.
I want to make just one more point about the Holocaust before we move on to the war crimes of the Allies. After the war, we tried and executed 11 Nazis for crimes against humanity. One, Hermann Goring, committed suicide. He requested to be killed by firing squad instead of short-drop hanging, but we said no. So, he chomped down on a potassium cyanide pill in his possession.
But, after we killed 11 Nazis, do you know how many Nazis we brought into this country via Operation Paperclip to begin cushy new jobs and lives? Officially, it was about 1800, but Craig Roberts found documents which proved that it was at least 2400. It's in his book The Medussa File.
So, those 2400 Nazis knew nothing about the death camps? Ironically, many of them were chemical weapons experts, and we wanted their know-how for ourselves. There was also Reinhard Gehlen, the head of German Intelligence. He was like their CIA chief. And yet, he didn't know anything about the death camps? He went on to some high and well-paid positions, both in West Germany and the United States. He was a close friend of Allen Dulles, and years later, Dulles threw him a retirement party in Washington D.C.
So, what do you think? Are you buying it that the head of Nazi Intelligence didn't know a thing about the Holocaust? Note that as the head of "Intelligence" it was his job to learn things that others were trying to keep secret.
Here is a Nazi sitting between the current and future President. He is Kurt Debus, the head of NASA and a former Nazi, the head of their V2 rocket program.
Let's just grant that the Nazis killed millions of Jews and others. If someone is committing atrocities, where they are killing innocent people, does it give you the right to do the same? Did we have the right to kill German civilians, including men, women, children, the aged, the infirmed, just for being German, on the grounds that the Nazi government was killing Jews?
My opinion is that we did not, that we had a moral obligation not to harm or kill civilians. Now, I realize that every war harms and kills civilians, and that's why I say that no one has the right to start a war- ever. But, I am talking now about directly targeting and attacking civilians, i.e. non-combatants; non-soldiers. I am not talking about collateral damage but the targeted destruction of civilians. Some have tried to defend it by saying that these were workers who had jobs; that anyone who worked in Germany at anything was supporting their war effort. But, what about German children? What about German mothers taking care of those children? What about old people? What about sick people? What about doctors and nurses? We killed randomly and indiscriminately, and as you are about to find out, it was monstrous.
Let's start with the UK. The Royal Air Force decided early-on that it would largely forego attacking military targets and instead target civilians. I can name the guy who came up with this plan: Sir Arthur Harris.
"For a long time, the government, for excellent reasons, has preferred the world to think that we still held some scruples and attacked only what the humanitarians are pleased to call military targets. I can assure you that we tolerate no scruples." Sir Arthur Harris
Harris' objective was to kill Germans, any and all Germans, Germans of any age, gender, or walk in life; and as efficiently as possible. It involved nighttime raids using big B-52 bombers flying at high altitude. It was variously called carpet bombing, area bombing, saturation bombing, and terror bombing, which is what the Germans called it.
When America entered the war, we were quite aghast at how Britain was fighting it- by killing German civilians. But, we got in the spirit of it, and before long, the Brits and the Yanks were at it together. Take for example, the destruction of Hamburg in July 1943. Hundreds of British planes filled the skies and dropped tons of high explosives on the city center, hitting schools, churches, hospitals, and homes. It reduced the city to rubble. But, the next day, as aid workers tried to rescue survivors who were trapped in the rubble, American bombers showed up targeting the emergency workers and the fleeing refugees. It was a massacre. But then, on the third night, the RAF came back with phosphorus and other incendiary bombs to create firestorms. And it continued for a week until the city was practically leveled. The British called it Operation Gomorrah, and later, it became known as the Hiroshima of Germany.
You can read orthodox reports and watch orthodox videos about it, and they don't deny any of it. They will mention oil refineries and other things that were hit that can be considered military- as if that's what it was about. It's a lie. It was about killing people. Read Inferno: The Fiery Destruction of Hamburg by Keith Lowe who tells of 10 ten days of relentless bombing, dropping over 9,000 tons of bombs indiscriminately. It wasn't about targeting; it was about wiping Hamburg, Germany's second most populous city, off the map and killing its population.
Of course, the most infamous war crime of the Allies, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was the destruction of Dresden. The very word "Dresden" has becoming synonymous with real-life Armageddon. This was late in the war, February 13, 1945.
The first British wave dropped thousands of high explosive bombs and hundreds of thousands of incendiary bombs, also known as firebombs. The high explosive bombs blew off the roofs, then the incendiary bombs started the firestorms, which sucked the air out of raid shelters. The intense heat created a strong updraft of air that literally sucked people into the flames, melting them, turning them into goop, and that's men, women, and children. That was followed by a second wave of British bombing that stoked the center of the fire to keep it going, as well as the periphery of it to expand is coverage, making the firestorm visible for a distance of 200 miles. The next day, Valentine's Day, the Americans arrived in low-flying Mustang planes, shooting at anything that moved. As people and families fled, they were strafed with machine gun fire, and it went on for days.
Dresden was an art city, a hospital city, and also a refugee city. Hundreds of thousands of undocumented refugees were there, fleeing the Soviet Army. What Dresden had in war production was minimal; practically nothing. To this day, Officialdom lists the death toll as 25,000. which is absurd. It was much more than that, and the History Channel used to say so. But, they were pressured to change it to 25,000, and they did. But, there is still this blurb about it on Google which has the old number.
How many people died in Dresden?
- Firebombing of Dresden On the evening of February 13, 1945, a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, reducing the “Florence of the Elbe ” to rubble and flames, and killing as many as 135,000 people.
This was very late in the war. Germany would go on to surrender just three months later in May. The German Army had had it; reduced to small bands of guerrilla fighters; and the Soviet Army was just 70 miles away- raping their way across Prussia, which I'll get to. There was absolutely no need to commit this genocide, just as there was no need to drop nuclear bombs on Japan which was already in surrender talks with the U.S. And by the way: the U.S. bombed civilian population centers in Japan throughout the war. In March 1945, we firebombed and napalmed the entire city of Tokyo, killing well over 100,000 people.
Again, I want to point out that there is an "other world" quality to World War 2 lore because people will discuss these monstrous acts as if they were OK- for World War 2. In World War 2, it was all right to do these things because it was World War 2. Anything was OK in World War 2.
But, what about the German attacks on London and Coventry? Wasn't that just as bad? First, there is no comparison in death toll, but more important: those attacks were in response to the British attacks. The British started it, not Hitler, and he waited 4 months before responding in kind. The British, not the Germans, started the aerial bombing of civilians in World War 2. And the British people were appalled by it, so much so that a government official, JM Spaight, wrote a book for public consumption that was surprisingly honest, in which he explained why killing German civilians, including women and children, was a good thing. It's called Bombing Vindicated, and you can buy it on Amazon.
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