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John Kornman's avatar

Make no mistake. This is a battle between good vs evil. If we allow evil to prevail we will all perish. We must excise this cancer now, and completely. There is no time to waste.

Gavriella Zahtz's avatar

Well done. Thank you.

Noah Otte's avatar

I want to educate Guerre & Shalom’s subscribers on Nazi Germany. So here are some great titles to learn more about the most evil regime in human history:

• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

• The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler by William L. Shirer

• Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis by Robert Gellately

• The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History by Laurence Rees

• Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche

• The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

• Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. Ryback

• The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power by Peter Ross Range

• The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett

• Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire by Sidney Kirkpatrick

• Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander

• Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer

• Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny

• The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze

• Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Götz Aly

• The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939 by Frank McDonough

• The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945 by Frank McDonough

Noah Otte's avatar

👏👏👏 A tremendous article from start to finish, Daniel! Everything you said in here is truth crushed to Earth! Your examples you use from history and today are spot on! The British protected their civilians by having them take shelter in the subways during the ruthless bombing by the Luftwaffe. They distributed food to them to make sure they didn’t go hungry. British children sent their children to the countryside for protection as German bombing never touched that part of the country. The British government protected their people and kept up their spirits in wartime. The Nazis used their people as cannon fodder to fight the allies for example in the last days of Berlin when the young boys of the Hitler Youth and the old men of the Volksstrum were sent to fight the Soviets as they attempted to capture the city. In the final weeks and months of the war, Hitler went scorched Earth and ordered Germany’s cities to be blown up. In the last days of the Third Reich it wasn’t the Allies who the German people feared, it was the SS. Hitler was determined that if he couldn’t have Germany, no one could! The British were a model for his civilians should be treated in wartime, the Germans were the model for how NOT to treat civilians in wartime! This also applies to how they treated enemy soldiers or civilians. The British treated German, Italian and Japanese POWs with great respect and humanity. The British also generally treated German and Italian civilians well and didn’t commit widespread atrocities against them. Let’s just say, the Germans were a different story. The Nazis made sport of waging brutal warfare on civilians, it was not only allowed, it was encouraged! The Nazis terrorized, murdered, enslaved, and tyrannized over the French, Dutch, Belgian, Greek, Danish, Norwegian, Soviet, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Yugoslavian, Austrian, and Italian peoples. Any groups considered to be “untermenschen” or subhuman such as Jews or Slavs were murdered in the Holocaust or were treated like animals. The Nazis sought to purge Germany itself of any non-Aryan or “undesirable elements.” Their primary concern was the Jews. But they also went after Slavs, Gypsies, gays and lesbians, disabled people, Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, black people, mixed-race people, labor unions, political dissenters, Communists, liberal democrats, feminists, Freemasons, criminals, alcoholics, the unemployed, and many others.

The Germans treated Allied POWs well-if they were considered Aryans. This why American, British and French POWs generally fared well in German POW camps but Soviet, Polish and Yugoslavian POWs? Not so much. Black POWs were also treated quite harshly and made to forced labor. Jewish POWs in the Allied armies were sometimes segregated into separate camps and also made to perform forced labor or outright sent to concentration camps. Such as the Jewish POWs who were sent to Berga slave labor camp. I could also mention the Malmedy Massacre on December 17, 1944 in which the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler massacred eighty-four American POWs from the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion on the orders of SS-Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper. Not to mention the severe torture and murder of eleven African-American soldiers from the segregated 333rd Field Artillery Battalion by Nazi SS troops in Wereth, Belgium. Sadly I’m not done, I’ve got several other examples. During the 1940 invasion of France, the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS massacred an estimated 1,500 to 3,000 Black French POWs. Another example, the infamous Dirlewanger Brigade an SS unit made up of criminals. Originally it included only those in prison for breaking Germany’s hunting laws. But it soon grew to include those convicted of the most serious crimes including murder, rape, burglary, and arson as well as mental asylum patients. The infamous unit served in Eastern Europe and committed some of the most horrific atrocities of the war. They were led by sadistic World War I veteran, drug addict, alcoholic, and child rapist Oskar Dirlewanger. The unit continuously committed sadistic acts of violence, torture, rape, and murder against civilians and plundered wherever they went. I could go on… The list of war crimes and atrocities committed by the Nazis and their allies is endless.

Daniel’s analogy applies just as much today as it did during World War II. Israel has the most humane military in human history. They go above and beyond to preserve human life. The IDF will personally call civilians on their cell phones, drop leaflets, do roof knocking, cancel airstrikes if there are civilians in the area especially children, do methodical, precise bombing campaigns to reduce civilian casualties, and broadcast warnings to civilians on the radio. Neither Hamas nor Hezbollah ever do anything like this. They do NOT value or care about human life! They use civilians as human shields as a matter of fact. Hamas executes Palestinians suspected of “collaborating” with Israel, executes LGBTQ+ people if they find them, brutally repress protests, arrest, jail and torture journalists who are critical of them, practice racial segregation against Afro-Palestinians, treat women as chattel, discriminate against Christians, allow marital rape, neglect and abuse disabled people, kidnap black Africans from their homeland and enslave them, use child labor to build their system of tunnels under Gaza, and fire rockets at Israeli civilians. Not to mention all the horrific things they did on October 7th. Don’t even get me start on all the horrific stuff and human rights abuses Hezbollah is guilty of! If the Palestinian and Lebanese people want a better future for them and their children, they need to rise up against Hamas and Hezbollah and reject evil!

Bethany S.B.'s avatar

Powerful piece, Daniel. Thank you.

ForeignLocal 🇺🇸❤️🧊's avatar

No civilization learns from the experiences of another. They don’t belong to the same civilization as we do. Their implants in the West are only carrying their war to us by different means. We may refuse to see it but reality is a bitch. It’s time to wake up to it.

Michael Koopman's avatar

I don’t believe you are correct. There are those who have learned from the mistakes of others. One of the things they have learned is not to proclaim that they have become a bastion of greatness because of it. They have learned that the sweat of the brow is the universal call and a sign of dignity.

You may never hear of them until you recognize them sitting in judgment on the last day. Then you will wish that you had also found a way to learn from the mistakes of others.

ForeignLocal 🇺🇸❤️🧊's avatar

You’re talking about individuals, I believe. If that’s the case, you’re partly right in your poetic apparent exercise to mix apples and oranges. I’m talking about civilizations. But then the apparent criticism of the “bastion of greatness” (a reference to MAGA?) in the invocation to the universal sweat of the brow is just too reminiscent of the stereotypical Marxist push that frankly I find just too fake and boring. It leads inexorably to misery and death once your fellow Marxists get to control the steering wheel. Thanks but no, thanks.

Michael Koopman's avatar

You should know the architect of the final solution. Do you need some of his journal articles to help your thesis?

JPM's avatar

That’s Himmler not Hemmer!

Michael Koopman's avatar

Hummler. the IED that didn’t. Driving around Afghanistan looking for Jews in boxcars.

The missing ‘l’ is more likely a call letter for good, good friends than a typo. But were you there when the Hummler was sold without the Kevlar?

Sometimes I wonder, I wonder how the WEF CEO boards don’t get the Chicago tower planned outage.