Victor Davis Hanson As far as terrorism and terrorist bombing, who exactly started the first systematic campaign of terror bombing? It was the Luftwaffe. Without provocation, German planes first indiscriminately bombed civilian targets in Poland to instill panic, terror, and mass death (150,000–200,000 Polish civilians killed in the actual invasion, perhaps the majority of them […]
Victor Davis Hanson He says, let’s not do this. We can’t do this. And of course, a year goes by, 1940 comes around, and they’re still at war. And so, he launches his invasion to the west, takes over France, and takes over western and northern Europe. Once that’s done, and the British have escaped
Victor Davis Hanson And I told him that. I think, and maybe I’m being a little hyperbolic, maybe, but I told him, maybe trying to provoke him a little bit, that I thought Churchill was the chief villain of the Second World War. Now, he didn’t kill the most people, he didn’t commit the most
Victor Davis Hanson That’s not what I’m saying. Germany, look, they put themselves into a position, and Adolf Hitler is chiefly responsible for this, but his whole regime is responsible for it, that when they went into the east in 1941, they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions
And so, when you do something like that with, I mean, again, like a historical event, like World War Two, where, I mean, the one rule is that you shall not do that. You shall not look at this topic and try to understand how the Germans saw the world: like how the whole thing
Victor Davis Hanson When we read the latest and now widely read denunciations of Churchill as a terrorist, drunk, psychopath, or warmonger, or accusations that the Allies fought a war of terror against their Axis enemies, we naturally expect those indictments more often emanate from the Left. So, what then drives this new rightist revisionism
Victor Davis Hanson Recently, remarks by one Darryl Cooper on a widely viewed Tucker Carlson interview ranged over a great number of topics. (see transcript). Among them, he offered a series of statements about World War II that more or less exonerated the Axis powers, and by extension contextualized the mass death of Russian POWS,
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