World War II was the Greatest Moral Failure in Western History
World War II was the Greatest Moral Failure in Western History
There are quite a few other problems with the war too. Though the West appeased Hitler in the beginning, the Nazis’ monstrous behavior did provoke extreme anger toward them. As justified as it was to be angry with the Nazis for bombing civilians in London and the Japanese for massacring people in the Pacific, does that really justify exterminating entire populations of people with incendiary bombs and nuclear weapons? Why did delighted French mobs humiliate women and shave their heads? What was their crime, exactly? Falling in love with German soldiers? I guess when it came time to bully girls, people suddenly found their courage.
Furthermore, the West’s actions following the war are simply disgusting, and there is no other word for it. Churchill in particular decided to save as many Nazis he could from Eastern Europe. Stalin found out and bullied him into giving many of them back. Are we really expected to believe that West suddenly decided that the Nazis were their friends, and hadn’t considered them friends all along? Maybe the Nazis were simply pet attack dogs against the Untermensch, but made the mistake of biting the hand that fed them.
Not only is this propaganda and whitewashing disrespectful to the Soviets, it’s disrespectful to our own heroes from the war. Last June, everybody at the White House apparently forgot about D-Day, and the presidential Twitter account didn’t so much as mention it. That indifference makes sense, sadly. If the Nazis were beloved pets who lost their way and had to be put down, then it’s only natural that we wouldn’t celebrate their defeat.
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