Posted by
Mike on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:33:57 AM
http://westernperspective.blogspot.com/
Pat Buchanan's latest column is entitled "Did Hitler Want War?". Of
course Hitler did not want to go to war. Only a fool would want to
start a war that would cause great loss to one's own country. This
would better describe the attitude of American neo-conservatives who
wanted to start American wars that could not be won in Iraq.
What
Buchanan overlooks is that the victorious powers of the first World War
essentially boxed Germany into a corner by imposing unreasonable
demands on the German people and creating an untenable democratic
structure of the Weimar Republic. Hitler, who was somewhat of a war
hero, gave Germany a way out of the dilemma.
In the former
Austrian Crown lands including Bohemia, most of the people including
those who were German speaking resisted unification with Germany and
wanted to maintain the status quo. It was only after the Nazi Anschluss
in which there was a de facto annexation of Austria to greater Germany in 1938
that the German speaking people in the Slavic countries, who considered
themselves Austrians, went along with Hitler's takeover of the former
Czechoslovakia, although there had always been support for unification
among the more extreme factions.
Europe was always united
culturally. As far as France had strayed from its Christian roots
during the French Revolution, France had to stand for something against
the neo-paganism of the Nazi Reich. Britain, France and America went to
war not to save Poland, Russia and the Jews, but to save what was left
of Christianity in Germany.