Buchanan Defends the Nazis Again

According to Pat Buchanan WW2 was the allies fault and was an unnecessary war. In other words hitler should just have been allowed to conquer countries and slaughter millions, especially Jews, at will. This is the same mindset of those who defend muslims today. Those who fight back against muslim aggression are the ones accused of waging war, not the jihadists. This is a perverse way of looking at the world. Buchanan must engage in historical revisionism, painting Germany as the victim and hitler misunderstood, to justify his abominable defense of nazi Germany. I don't understand why this guy is accepted in mainstream media circles instead of being treated as a lunatic and shunned.

Pat Buchanan: Knave and Fool

Why is the conservative iconoclast defending Adolf Hitler?
September 4, 2009
- by Rick Moran
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September 1 marked the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II. The day was marked with solemn remembrances from governments and survivors. They recalled the unprovoked German invasion of Poland that led to Britain and France honoring their defense guarantees, which plunged the planet into its second great conflict in as many generations.

Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan acknowledged the day a little differently.

“Pitchfork Pat” wrote a column in which he reiterated his long-held contention that Adolf Hitler did not want to start a general war, that he was only trying to unite the German-speaking peoples of Europe, and that he was generally misunderstood in his intentions toward France and Great Britain.

He has also insisted over the years that we’re missing something about the Holocaust. What we’re missing is that the whole thing was just a big mistake. The Nazis didn’t mean to kill millions of Jews; it just kinda happened accidental-like:

The Holocaust was not a cause of the war, but a consequence of the war. No war, no Holocaust.

And then there’s this monumental dishonesty about the Final Solution:

Not until midwinter 1942 was the Wannsee Conference held, where the Final Solution was on the table. That conference was not convened until Hitler had been halted in Russia, was at war with America and sensed doom was inevitable. Then the trains began to roll.

What Buchanan fails to mention — or more likely is just plain ignorant of — was that the SS was already all over Poland and eastern Russia by the fall of 1941, with death squads (the dreaded Einsatzgruppen) who were conducting mass executions of Jews. They had even been inventing a special truck that would direct the exhaust into the rear of the vehicle that the SS would stuff to overflowing with Jews. The means of genocide had not been perfected yet, as it took too long for the victims to die and it wasted precious fuel in the process. The poison Zyklon B, which was used to gas death camp inmates, was a few years down the road from being suggested.

The simple point: the Holocaust may not have been a “cause” of World War II, but Hitler’s obsession with Lebensraum was. His plans were to enslave the Slavs and murder the Jews. This was proven at Nuremberg as the “big fish” Nazis were convicted of coldly planning “aggressive war” against humanity in the 1930s.

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