Before the war broke out, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler repeatedly opined that Jews posed a severe threat to Germany, including in his prophecy speech on 30 January 1939. He believed that the only way for the world to revert to its natural order was to eradicate the Jews. The myth of the Elders of Zion contributed to scapegoating and antisemitism toward Jews in the Weimar Republic. Hitler primarily viewed the Bolshevik Revolution as an usurpation of power from Nordic-Germanic elites by Jews.
Antisemitism accorded Jews massive power, wealth, and political power. One of the longest lasting conspiracy theories, even though it has been repeatedly proven false, is the narrative of a Jewish world conspiracy presented in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The evidence of Nazi wartime propaganda indicates that the legend of a murderous international Jewish conspiracy, more than the biological obsessions about Jews, played a major role in Adolf Hitler’s thinking and in the Nazi ideology.
After World War I, the new Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler, blamed Jews for Germany’s defeat. The international Jewish conspiracy or the world Jewish conspiracy has been described as “one of the most widespread and long-running conspiracy theories”. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) is unquestionably the central figure in the story of the Holocaust. It seems to me that persecuting Jews was something the Nazis really believed in and that it was not entirely opportunistic scapegoating. The claim that there was a Jewish war against Nazi Germany is an antisemitic conspiracy theory promoted in Nazi propaganda which asserts that the Jews, or the Jewish world, were responsible for all evil.
📹 The Real Reason for Hitler’s War – WW2 Documentary Special
The murder of the Jews of Europe is not simply conducted alongside the military and political war aims of the Third Reich.
📹 The Conspiracy Theory of World War II
Prof. Jeffrey Herf explores the place antisemitism held in Nazi propaganda, addressing the question of why this phenomenon …
One of my fellow college students, private liberal arts college upper Midwest in 1970’s, told of his father’s unique perspective on the German war effort gained through unusual circumstances His father had been born in America of German immigrants and raised in a predominately German speaking town in America, able to read and write in German before being taught English in elementary school. He went on to Annapolis and flag rank. The Navy had become aware of a portion of the captured German archives being about the fire suppression techniques developed by German firefighters to counter the firestorm bombings. This was info of great value to the Navy. His father could write and read German in print and cursive and of rank sufficient to obtain and hold access to the material and so was sent to Germany in 1945 to identify the portions of the archives pertinent to this research. While he was doing so he also came across the receipts of the German Railroad for payment of the use of and replacement of equipment broken out by type and priority of cargo and movement. What he found was that to even to the last days of the war, the SS trains to and from the death camps and labor camps had priority of movement and draw upon rolling stock over all other purposes, that over half of the logistical capacity of the German rail system was used by the SS in pursuit of the Nazi eugenics programs. He then realized why the Allies did not bomb the concentration or labor camps. Stopping their use would free logistical capacity to military traffic.
There are a couple of people in the comments accusing you of preaching and spreading an agenda… you know what I mean. That’s why it is important that these episodes and the exploration of the deeper, underlying logic that drove the various actions and goals of WW2 are presented. And you, Sparty and the rest of the Timeghost team, are doing a phenomenal job with that – Thank you!
Well I think Sparty and team explained it as best as neutral as they could here. Inevitably, there may be some that won’t agree with this view or that view, but at least this article does help to gain a bit of understanding on the more complex side or nature of the war like this one here. Thank you team and never forget.
It always shocked me that official German policy was to actively seek the physical extermination of the hews, even in the last months of WWII. When the Soviets were invading eastern Prussia. And the Allies the western Germany. Instead of gathering all his available military resources and directing them to the front, AH allocated a significant part of his last resources in killing jews…
This episode fits well with an episode of WW2TV I watched just an hour before, about the ideological reasons behind the atrocities of the Wehrmacht behind the frontline in the Soviet Union: “The Evolution of Vernichtungskrieg: The German Army and the Occupation of the Soviet Union” by Jeff Rutherford is discussed.
I remember studying Nazism at university in 2003 and reading textbooks arguing that Hitler was just a ‘typical nationalist statemen’ and Germany was forced into war through ‘miscalculations’ by the Allied powers. These ideas played such a large part of my course that my final assessment question actually asked to what extent should they be seen as correct.
Another tremendous job. I grew up with grandparents who served in WWII. Holocaust survivors came every year in elementary school to share their stories. I always wondered who would tell this story in a way that the next generation will hear it and draw the important lessons we need to draw from it. This content is certainly part of the answer.
It is beyond a shadow of the doubt that the war was against Jews. The fact that people will still argue that it was in regards to “getting land back” it really wasn’t. That was part of it but not THE reason! It is the same as the Confederates in the US Civil War when people say it’s for “states rights” even though the deceleration of secession literally stated the reason was because of retaining slavery. Thank you as always Sparty.
Spartacus, you never fail to portray the psychotic Nazi worldview in the light of reason. The intricate connections between that worldview and the timeline of the war require not just research, but also a discerning eye. Many, many years have passed since these barely believable events occurred, enough to jeopardize the value of the very lesson they convey. We all owe a debt of gratitude to those willing to revisit and retell these stories (insane as they are), lest a most terrifying history find a way to repeat itself. Bravo, Sparty! Another masterpiece!
I’m glad you guys spell this out, as you say it is so often repeated things like “why didn’t the nazis just focus on the war instead of genocide” as if they just didn’t realise what they were doing, titling the series “war against humanity” I think is very good because that really is what it was, it was an integral part of the reason for the war and to them, they were fighting people, not just nations. I wish more people understood that today, it is very hard not to see fragments of those same ideas still present, and to fear where they may lead again.
2:06 what? 😂 It’s obvious though. Just look at the man in power at all levels. Came in to power by criminality and infiltration of the media, police forces, politics etc. If people didn’t had a Jewish problem back then, than why was Henry Ford’s book so popular back then? And why did so many millions resonate with what was said in that book?
The more atrocious and criminal violations of human rights Spartacus witnesses, the better his mustache becomes. Speaking seriously, I don’t have the stomach to keep up with WAH’s articles or Spartacus content. But the articles with him that I watch everyonce in a while are awesome and very illuminating. The specials are enough to start seeing those other shadowy sides of this war.
Thank you for this article and your comments at 2:25, Sparty. I am Jewish and can say that no one group of Jews controls anything, not even Judaism itself. We have healthy and sometimes heated debates about our faith, which rarely end in any agreement. So, it is helpful and appreciated when people who are not Jewish like yourself attack antisemitism and the various tropes connected therewith.
Sparti, your comments at the end are always so moving and I couldn‘t agree more. Especially your almost prophetic analysis and comparisions you draw between past and present reveal the immensely destructive power of delusion, fake news, and hatred. And without saying it out loud you remind me that a dystopic scenario of our future in the 21st century may be looming on the horizon if we give power ever again to dangerous populists with fanatic world views. Your and all the teams work for truth, an open society and human values in a democracy is so so important and it cannot be emphazised enough how outstandingly helpful and valuable everything you do is. Therefore I am really happy to annouce that I can finally financially afford to became timeghost army member after perusal all your episodes for over 4 years. Thank you so much!
Hitler’s fundamental reasons for war are actually quite mundane: to protect the German people and improve their quality of life via economic growth and security. Which is what any leader wants. But his twisted beliefs on what threatened the “volksgemeinschaft” and how to pursue economic growth (the Nazis had a weird fetishisation with peasant agriculture) were what set the regime apart.
I wish more history teacher can be as him. In german school history is think as burden and not important as sport or chemistry. But with no view of history always the same mistakes will happen again and again. Cause only little history is in school many people today in Germany belive its all fake not fact. Even our school ministres say its more important kids can horse vault and run 10km as they know our history. Maybe because history is thinking and remembering. That is dangerous for some.
There is a effort among history communicators to tell history as impartially as possible, so that people may form their opinions and beliefs totally of their own accord, which is nearly always a good thing. However, when it comes to topics like the Holocaust I think it is more responsible for that communicator to affirm that something is totally amoral. It should go without saying that antisemitism and the Holocaust are definitely bad, but considering the world we live in, I think it is nessisary. This website and Time Ghost are not afraid to say when something in history is objectively amoral, which is commendable. You guys do great work!
Well… I still do not understand the “why”. I know it was Hitler’s reason, but why? When antisemitism was born and why? Why? Why? Why? I feel like people are afraid to tell that antisemitism was a common thing back in the day(Why!? I don’t know.). An article, a book, a movie, or anything else that explain the reason of this specific hate would be great. It looks like everybody understand it, almost like they were born with this knowledge. I think whoever programed me forgot to add this part. Sorry for my frustration. Humans are hard to understand!
Last month on PBS they featured a Ken Burns three-part film on America and the Holocaust. I’m perusal it now and finished episode two of three which ended with Pearl harbor and America’s entry into the war. As you mentioned in this article antisemitism was rampant everywhere and the US had become so isolationist that it pretty much rejected every opportunity to increase immigration to save lives, even hearing about the Nazi atrocities toward the Jewish people in their news. While the majority Americans supported these measures due to lack of jobs brought out by the Depression, others clearly used anti-Semitism to justify it and others believed that letting anybody in from Germany or Europe was inviting spies into the country.
I tried to explain this to my German-descent grandpa years ago—who was a kid in America during WW2-–but he never could comprehend Germany’s eugenics and genocide. He’d make comments like “Why didn’t the German Army just enlist their Jewish citizens?” I tried to explain that without their hatred for the Jews there would not have been a war… But that never got through.
Thank you for this article. It is beyond my understanding and maybe most others, at the level and intensity of hatred that the Nazis had for the Jews. I can only understand it with a spiritual perspective. Only Evil can hate so intentionally. That it why these articles are so very important. Never again!
Walking round the Jewish Museum in Berlin was quite the eye opener. There is a section with a timeline walkaround . I remember seeing sinister anti-semitism signs beginning in the decade of 1890s – even when Hitler is a child. As you tread through the decades you can see it becoming more orchestrated and insistent – and deadly. You wanted to shout to the people’s stories being relayed on the reading panels – “get out while you can!” . Sadly for many they never did or could.
Spot-on, as always. Great work, Spartacus! Your complement to the intersting, but at times somewhat too – let’s say, enthusiastic – coverage by Indie is great in its own right and much needed. (I know full well that you are both researching all of it and just narrate different parts of it – still it is very fitting to have a more somber sub-series to a very real-time report strongly focused on the “normal war” part of it.) I keep having the impression that even calling the worshippers of a specific religion an “ethnicity”, or a “race” to use that poisoned term, is already one part of the misconception, just like assuming they would necessarily form a monolithic bloc and all cooperate towards one goal…
Love these documentaries. Before formally studying this subject in Middle School and High School, I remember thinking in lower grade school that the Holocaust must’ve been something that was perpetrated in the interim period between Hitler taking power and the actual start of WW2 in 1939. Learning that the Nazi regime allocated massive amount of resources in their most desperate times of the War (literally fighting two fronts) to the industrialized mass murder of an entire ethnic group blew my mind and still does. Like even from a logistical standpoint, why not give your armed forces a fighting chance in a two front war by stopping the mass genocide for a few years and reallocating the resources to your front lines? It just goes to show that all of the Eugenics/Jewish conspiracy non sense that was regurgitated by Hitler over and over again really was taken as absolute fact and held to the highest importance.
An interesting but controversial view. It seems that Spartacus is very much a follower of the ‘intentionalist’ interpretation of the Holocaust, which pins the decision to exterminate the Jews of Europe entirely and solely on Hitler himself, as opposed to the ‘functionalist’ school of thought, which explains the Holocaust as a set of actions that followed from Hitler’s statements and vague directives. I see valid arguments on both sides of debate but I have not fully made my mind up. There is no doubt that Hitler was the most fanatical of anti-Semites but to view the entire war as simply a mechanism to enable the mass extermination of Jews seem rather naive to me. Hitler had geopolitical objectives and the crushing of his opponents, Britain and France, was a significant objective, as was the defeat of the USSR, not merely because it was communist and allegedly dominated by Jews, but because it was the last major power left in Europe capable of challenging Germany and her dominance over the continent. The extermination of the Jews was made possible by the war and gave Hitler the opportunity, but I would not agree that it was the overriding aim. If it had been, why did the Holocaust not start earlier, almost as soon as Hitler seized power in 1933? Jews were persecuted by anti-Semitic laws but there were no mass murders of Jews in Germany before the war.
An excellent article, yet again, shame for the absence of the quote of inflicting upon Poland that of Armenians, a quote that at the time made little or no sense. Retrospectively it was a comment on the destruction on a percentage of the population of Poland, who were Jewish. Of course anti-semitism goes further than that, I met many people in the Middle East who thought that Hitler must have been good as their enemy’s enemy, without knowing how close the Arabs were on his deathlist, the “descendants of Shem” were listed closely. Never Forget!
Thank you very much for doing what you are doing. Educating the world to understand how hatred can grow in those who think they are saving us and surround themselves with the image of fighting a noble cause. It helps us read between the lines and with some luck, enables us to make better choices for our children. I noticed your bottom lip quivering at the very end…know that the world is a better place with you in it.
best analysis of the nazi absurdity ever…excellent!…however, the greatest and most sinister manifestation of absolute power are human sacrifices…i guess that were it not the jews, it would be another etniticy…as long as there is a divine sacrifice for their pagan Eagle God..like islamic State recently, the nazi’s threw humanity back to a 2000 years…
Fantastic episode. Is there a transcript I could access somewhere? Your final speech was exceptional and I think should be published far and wide. Also, at ~10:00, did you mean the logical fallacy of begging the question, or are you simply raising that question? I suspect it’s “raising” as you offer the negative answer, but if not it seems to add a much deeper layer to the question.
As usual you are amazing and have hit the point perfectly. My ex father in law was German and mist definitely subscribed to Hitler’s view point. The information you bring would be great to be taught in both college and secondary schools here in the US. We don’t teach or understand history. Thank you for your show.
We have to remember it was Europeans doing in Europe to other Europeans what was done by Europeans to indigenous peoples in the rest of the world. The Germans were just more technologically efficient than the earlier genociders. It is 450 years from 1492, the year of “discovery” to 1942, the Wannsee conference.
What truly saddens me as I watch these articles is how I hear the echos of hate in my conversations with neighbors here in rural America from people who have never left their homes, never walked in another’s shoes but OH Boy are they so sure what is the problems with America are. 😢😢😢. I am ashamed to be a rural farm boy 😢😢😢
So well narrated by Spartacus, and researched, presented, and supported by the team in the background. With such a wealth of information this (as some other episodes) requires a number of viewings/listenings to get some of the points and the support arguments. As ever “never forget” and well done to time ghost team.
Unfortunately I can’t recall where I got this from, but I remember hearing something about how in Mein Kampf Hitler talks about how he wants to take America’s example of building a modern nation on the back of a “slave race” and allegedly specifically points out the Ukrainians as a good candidate for this. Only tangentially related to the article, but do you know anything about this, or did someone over-interpret something in light of current events. Not too sure if I feel like digging through the primary source to double check this, apparently it’s written very poorly.
This critique of the Nazi party is spot on. However, we live in a world where words like: racism, hate, conspiracy and fascism are thrown around as cheap political attacks to try to silence opposition. Therefore, I was taken aback by the article and really had to re-calibrate my perspective. You are absolutely correct in your analysis that members of the Western Alliance (and their descendants) tend to view World War II as a political-national-economical-militaristic struggle for regional and global influence/dominance. For example; the United States imposed an embargo on Japan as a result of military expansionism which directly/indirectly led to their attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States’ invasion of North Africa, Italy, various Pacific Islands and Western Europe was seen as a war of liberation against despotism. It’s easy to compartmentalize all of that in that box and set on a shelf to gather dust. I mean, that it happened 80 years ago. I realize I am way over-generalizing. Getting back to the Nazis, sure, it is easy for us to say the Nazis were anti-Semitic. But, it is really difficult to comprehend the depths of hatred as you have described in this article. And I admit, I had to really think about this (as evidenced by this post) and consider just how much HATRED the Nazis had. As if killing six million Jews was not enough. However, I think the Holocaust has become such a part of ingrained history that it is really easy to forget the humanity of individuals who were in the action of giving or receiving the Holocaust.
This article would be a good part of a comprehensive series of lessons for school children: How to spot political evil, why it exists (because it works on people who have no prior knowledge) and where it leads (could just be corrupt government, could be world war and mass murder) and how not to get used by it. (It’s not enough to just not be sucked in, it is critical that when someone starts shouting, “All those people with orange socks are…..” to feel it’s necessary to stand with the people in orange socks.)
I have to say that the analysis presented in this article was rather superficial. By applying the same arguments, same selection of evidence and same interpretation of public justifications for the war, you could argue that the War in Ukraine is caused by Putin’s hatred of “Nazism”. We all know there is no Nazi government in Ukraine, and even if Putin in his deepest delusions might believe so, and while Russian war engine may be fueled by the idea of destroying Nazism, there are a lot more underlying reasons to the war. This same applies to 2nd world war as well. Yes, Hitler’s antisemitism had a major impact on the course of the war. Yes, German war effort was fueled by strong antisemitism. Yes, the Nazi regime spent an irrational amount of resources in the destruction of Jews thus creating a war of terror. But there were still other underlying factors that played a major role in the outbreak of the war. It would be more correct to say that the war was caused by grievances resulting from the Great War, long lasting sentiment of oppression of Germany by the surrounding nations and imaginary races, fear of other political ideologies like socialism; and greatly fueled by the antisemitism. Antisemitism also shaped the war to be what it was, i.e. total inhumane destruction of innocent people.
Thanks Sparty. Looks like plenty people still need educating. I still cannot comprehend how facts based on irrefutable evidence can be disputed. Perhaps it’s fear that the truth might be too uncomfortable to digest. Perhaps something else. Either way, I don’t really give a crap if people choose to be ignorant when the truth stares them between their eyes. I can only focus on educating myself and passing on that knowledge to my children, to help them become decent human beings. Thank you for doing the hard stuff. Respect.
Spectacular concluding comment! “That is what a belief in conspiracy theories, and racial exceptionalism does. It creates cracks in the stonework of the dams we have built with concrete facts, and hard truth to hold back the forces of hateful falsehoods. These cracks eventually widen and allow the followers of mythology and manifest destiny to unleash a flood of death, and destruction on all of us. Never Forget.”
Very thorough. However, it should be mentioned that antisemitic sentiment was widespread and well established in Europe long before the NS’s came along. It was Karl Marx, himself, who first coined the phrase “the Jewish question.” I think it would also be a little remiss to completely ignore the socialistic economic belief structure of the NS’s, the complete lack of natural resources of Germany, and yes, as much as people want to deny this now, the treaty of Versailles (not that the Weimar was making many payments anyway). But, all of these factors combined with conspiratorial racial beliefs and a delusional hatred of Jews propelled this war forward. It’s not just one factor, and never was.
The war goal(s) were ultimately the mean to achieve the ultimate goal – the establishment of a huge, strong and secure Greater Germanic Reich. Had the Axis won the war, Hitler and his successors might want to change the target to Imperial Japan and wage a WW3. That is, if a cold war scenario fails to happen, or if his successors decided that Hitler was too radical and decided to strengthen the alliance with Japan. If deportation to Madagascar really happened, that wouldn’t be the end of it.
“Manifest destiny.” “National exceptionalism.” “A belief in conspiracy theories.” You clearly pointing to the overlap in Nazism and today’s political discourse–both in the United States and abroad. Your use of history to shine on a mirror to today is so deeply, deeply important. I am honored to be a small part of your Ghost Army. Keep fighting the good fight of righteous justice. Thank you for your courage, hard work and keen intelligence.
In my opinion, this is one of the most important articles anyone will ever watch. The formula pursued by the Nazis — racial exceptionalism coupled with belief in a conspiracy to victimize a favored race or group — is in key respects the same formula now being pursued by Putin and Xi. The most important difference is that Hitler did not have nuclear weapons, while Putin and Xi both have enough nuclear weapons to bring on Armageddon by themselves, regardless of what the West does,
I have a follow-up question though, why did people back in 20th and 19th century hated Jews so bad? It goes even further down the line in history but that always felt like it was mainly for the religious reason. Which is something I can kind of understand as people fight over religion to this day. However once we entered the 20th century, this particular part of hatred wasn’t prevelant anymore and it turned somewhat mysterious. As if it was a paranoid way to frame your enemies into something specific to control masses and website their hatred on your conquest of insanity.
Normally, I agree with and enjoy these articles for their historical content. However, I have to say that on this occasion there is too much contentious and debatable content that is then presented as ‘fact’. The premise of this article states that “the chief war goal of Nazi Germany has been the destruction of the Jews”. I would humbly suggest that this is incorrect. The overriding aim of German National Socialism and Hitler were the betterment of Germany and the German People – Das Volk – and all the many things that they believed that would entail and that would ultimately only be achieved through war e.g. Lebensraum, the subjugation of Slavs, the elimination of Bolshevism, the annihilation of the European Jews and the ultimate supremacy of the Herrenrasse. Yes, the war itself and the elimination of European Jewry (for reasons of the Nazis various warped rationales and notions of revenge etc.) are part of that process or ‘means’ of the former but they are not, in themselves, the ‘ends’.
The YouTube TiK has articles stretching past six hours that spells it all out. People only talking about military campaigns while ignoring ideology and economics miss the forest for the trees and only after recognizing how dedicated Hitler was to annihilating Jews (and why) does everything fall into place. Why he distrusted his generals, why he invaded in 41, why he enacted autarky and a self-embargo, so on, so on.
An interesting question, but the reasons are less complex than they seem. Ultimately, the Germans wanted world power, but they did not have the people, the resources or broad popular support for this. So you need a scapegoat who is mainly financially important. As in all historical events, the truth lies closer to the path of money.
Hitler inverted the idea of ethics. Humanity in its natural form was a social darwinian animal, where the strong conquered and destroyed the weak. But the Jews, according to Hitler, supplanted this natural state of affairs with the abstractions of philosophy, and brought law and order. Hitler was a romantic, a radical anarchist, that was repelled by these abstractions, and he constantly referred to the Jews as “unnatur” (unnatural). Fascism in its purest forms always call for the elimination of all forms of civility, a dark manifestation of the Romantic “noble savage”.
I have friends who play wargames. I have to wonder, when one of them chooses to play Germany in such a game, if they really understand the ramifications of this. I have other friends who speak of Rommel and the Afrika Korps as being faultless and “clean” when it comes to the Jewish genocide. Of course they were not. Those who forget history are, eventually, doomed to repeat it. Thank you again, Sparty and crew, for shining a light into the dark recesses.
Sadly, in the fullness of time, these events, while perhaps not forgotten, might recede in collective memory and diminish in importance, such that they no longer speak to us when making societal decisions. One can only hope that it joins that small subset of ancient events that still influence us today. The last stand of the Spartans, or the revolt of the slave Spartacus. Hey, kind of a trend there.
My Father and Grandmother fled Germany during ww2 because the war destroyed most of Germany. My Grandfather fought for the Germans and died during War. My Grandmother use to cry talking about the war. Most Germans fled to South America because of the climate and Argentina and Chile both Supported Germany during that time. My Grandmother decided to come to America instead and my father grew up in Brooklyn, Ny.
I guess the madness of Hitler, raises the question of whether or not WWII would have come about if that British soldier had shot and killed Hitler when he had him in his sights during WWI? The only reason for him not shooting Hitler is because Hitler was unarmed at at point and the soldier had sworn to never shoot an unarmed man! Certainly if he had shot Hitler then the Nazis would have had to have found someone different to lead them and would that someone have possessed the various skill sets necessary to replicate those of Hitler in order to rise up in prominence to firstly lead the Nazi Party and to then sieze control of Germany?+
As you already foresaw, I disagree. The plan was to go East, the idea of exploiting antisemitism and use it as an excuse (judebolshevism) for the war was an excuse. It was an antisemitic ideology focused on finding semitic aspects on their enemies, to justify the fighting ideologically. Similarly, the revanchist sentiment against France was exploited to knock them out of the war as well. It was realpolitik all the way down as to why the war started, why they attacked some countries, and so on.
If you read older material you’ll find that, like discussions you find on the ‘net today, the discussions are about the negative role of international finance. These are expressed in a number of ways, with the discussion often blaming seemingly irrelevant events on their machinations. The undercurrent — and the logical fallacy — is that because these international banking cartels are largely Jewish origin or owned that “the Jews” are somehow responsible for the world’s misfortunes. The logical fallacy is obvious, its like saying that because all cats have fur that anything with fur must be a cat, but the consequences were grave beyond belief — millions suffered and died, unspeakable horrors were unleashed (and the irony is that “the bankers” were not just unaffected, they did very well out of the chaos and horror since war is always very good for the right sorts of businesses). Another snippet is that the Nazi hierarchy firmly believed that Russian Communism was the embodiment of Jewish domination of the world. This may have arisen because a number of leading Bolsheviks of the revolutionary era, including many of their intellectual base, were of Jewish origin.
There’s the ironic fact that the Jews of Europe failed to unite in the face of this aggression in a defensive – much less offensive – way. Can anyone explain why so many Jews were seemingly caught unaware when the Nazis were so open with their intentions? Was it simply par for the course in rhetoric? Was it more hidden in the beginning?
Of course the Nazi regime had a pathological obsession with racial superiority, and scapegoated Jews in Europe! But in a lot of cases, the fact that the allies ALSO had similar systems of aggression with large parts of the world based on racial aggression at that time is usually glossed over. The unique thing about Nazi Germany was just that the aggression and feeling of racial superiority was aimed against fellow European Caucasians. Britain, France, Netherland all held HUNDREDS of millions of brown people at the time as colonial subjects to be exploited at their will! Movements for independence were crushed routinely with extreme force. Belgium was just a few decades removed from their mass atrocities and slave like exploitation of the Congos. Britain was administering the Bengal famine that killed millions of Indians. The US had colonial holdings in the Philippines, couldn’t even have desecrated military units without general mutiny, insubordination and violence from it’s military units stationed throughout the world, and primary US opposition to a League of Nations statement asserting the equality of races in the world led to Japan’s withdrawal!
This sort of hyper-focused take ignores all the other victims of Nazism. The Roma were basically wiped out as a people and nobody ever mentions them. Millions of Soviet POWs were worked to death and thousands upon thousands of homosexuals, communists, pacifists, and others summarily executed. It makes it hard to take Sparty seriously.
Thank you, Spartacus, for this article of the real reason that Hitler started the war in Europe. The Nazis used it as a front to hide a plot to murder all the Jews of Europe. However, by engaging in this sort of barbarity instead of focusing more on fighting eny soldiers, the Germans foolish squandered their precious resources and weakened their own nation,. Consequently, they brought not only defeat but reproach and shame upon themselves as well once the crimes of the Nazi regime came to light in the eyes of the world. This is an informative article, and I also like what you say at the end of your documentaries and that is “Never forget”.
I applaud you guys for sticking straight to the facts! I sometimes have friends who use Nazism as a scapegoat to denounce a political ideology or something they hold a bias against, and it hurts my head when they do. I think in the back of my head “if you guys even know what Nazism was all about, you’d shut your mouths!” This article encapsulates perfectly what they’re all about, but I fear it’s not enough to humble them because they’ll just say “fake news” or whatever. That being said, keep up the good work Time Ghost! Hopefully those guys will come around and listen to you!
This episodode is particular hard to hear and see, as it does not make logical sence that anyone would be declare total war towards one particular ideelogy, race, belifes or whatnot. But then, we see it again in today’s war in Ukraine. To think we see parrelles today in RussUkraine war, where Russia have decleared war because of Nazism, and conduct war crimes due to denazisim of Ukriane. Russia has continously in their media said that everyone that is against them in this war is manipulated, cohersered, alined or whatnot to nazisim.
I’ve had the misfortune to encounter some of these theories and am left to wonder whether the many plainly documented instances where Communist and/or American Jews from 1900-1945 repeatedly stated their intent and ability to throw the world into Communism for various ends are mere delusion on their part or purposeful illusion for others to see. For all the ink spilt on it by those with belief in the spiel or fear of the return – I feel like researching the answer to a definitive point would be hopeless. If anyone has resources on that, I might be interested. (no links, YT deletes)
i dont think we will ever know the complete truth on why and for what reason ww1 and ww2 played out in the early stages the alliances and overall wishful plans …its like a game of risk with like 8 players and like 21 smaller players all playing at once i feel like ww2 is bassically ww1.5 just continue on from the first world war its like why was it germany both times …???? why did UKand france and russia ally with each other both times or was it germanys turn it seems like every nation from europe tried to expand in europe at one time or another UK France Austria-hungry poland the ottomans u can name them all really Italy russia Sweeden spain the greeks the romans
One major inaccuracy, not the first time presented on this site. There was never an alliance between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. A reading of the Non-Aggression Pact (simply a promise not to attack each other and recognize spheres of influence) including the secret accords, and the full text of Nazi Germany’s Declaration of War on the Soviet Union in 1941 fully establishes that there was no alliance. Further, there were other countries that had non-aggression agreements with the Nazis, including Poland in 1934, which even went so far as to collaborate with Nazi Germany in the final partition of Czechoslovakia. If such agreements are alliances, then how come nobody talks about the “alliance” between Poland and Nazi Germany between 1934 and 1939?
I don’t know how everything I learn about nazis makes me despise them even more than I already did. The only people I like that could even be considered nazis were all people who were nazis in name only and betrayed the party in order to save people from the genocide. Schindler and people like him shouldn’t be considered nazis imo, but I guess it’s just a technicality.
Im finding this a bit hard to swallow 🙂 ofc ratzis had these ideas about genocide, no argument .. but it wasnt just against folks of semitic heritage. And I just flat out dont agree it was the PRIMARY causus belli of ww2. Dont forget the rather massive 4 way war in china, its half the bloody war isnt it, despite there being few english-speaking films about it .. and that most certainly was NOT about anti semitism (tho the intent to exterminate other ethnic types is clearly going on at a massive scale). I think you got this pretty wrong spart
17:12 better preach that to the Biologists. They declare more strongly than any, based on physiology, that races are not all equal in all things. Some races have innate advantages in certain areas that others do not, while the other have it in different areas. Nevertheless, their argument is overwhelmingly convincing. Sorry, but you are wrong in this case. The best that you can say is that if one race has greater superiority in greater things required for the propagation of life, that you hope that race will not brutalize the other races out of existence.
This is purely my view. I do not impute it to this website, nor will I be surprised, let alone hurt, if anyone ridicules me for it: The Holocaust, specifically, the elimination of world Jewry, can’t be understood unless one comes at it with a spiritual framework, in my case, a Christian one. It seems to me that the role of diabolism should never be sloughed off. Hitler and the leading Nazis wanted to kill the world’s Jews so intensely they were willing to devote manpower and materiel which could have been engaged in fighting the actual war to the murder of as many Jews as quickly as possible. What could possibly explain such cosmic lunacy if not the influence of the demonic?