Hi folks. Yesterday, or today as I am writing this, was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I don’t know why people are so obsessed with round numbers. I mean for me the 79th anniversary of the 81st anniversary is no less important, but that’s neither here nor there. Of course, it was the Red Army that pretty much ended the Holocaust, yet they’ve not really been given much of any recognition for this, and I gather that this is at least partly due to the Cold War and also that the Americans and the British like to play up their own parts, which wasn’t insignificant, but not as big as the Soviets. Of course, Stalin in particular can be blamed for the Holocaust because he did align himself with Hitler to conspire against Poland in 1939, which curiously is also often overlooked. Did you know that the Soviet Union also invaded Poland in September 1939? The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact actually helped fuel the German war machine and to that extent Stalin has to be blamed. Stalin can also be blamed for refusing to believe his own intelligence telling him that the Germans are going to invade, yet he remained defiant up until the day of the invasion. So, Stalin fueled his own demise and the demise of the Soviet Union, and in turn the Holocaust. Also, it’s not like Stalin cared about the victims of the Holocaust. But to be fair, I really don’t think Winston Churchill cared either, and as far as I can tell Franklin Roosevelt seemed pretty aloof and indifferent about the situation. Again, do remember that WWII wasn’t really fought over the Holocaust, and racism and xenophobia was very common in this time. For all I can tell, Churchill didn’t even seem to have disagreed with Hitlers racist views. I’ve also been pretty good at blaming the French as well, because, as I’ve pointed out obsessively on this blog, the French should have been able to defeat this menace, yet they didn’t. I understand why the French spread the lie that the French Armed Forces were too weak to defeat the Manstein plan, because the awful implications of the idea that they could have defeated the Germans are too much to bear, and it just becomes easier to tell yourself and your people this pretty little lie. But if anyone was the villain amongst the Allies in WWII, on par with the Soviets, it must be said that it was the French commanders in 1940, in particular General Gamelin and General Huntziger, who single handedly screwed up the French war effort, because of incompetence and maybe in the case of Huntziger because he was in cahoots with the Germans. But the case of Huntziger will likely always be shrouded in mystery. It might just be as simple as Huntziger having tunnel vision, which due to the inefficient and confusing command structure of the French army in 1940, wasn’t that unusual. See, the fall of France was the key to not only the Holocaust, but the entirety of WWII, the way it turned out that is. So do forgive me if you think I’m hard on the French, because they really screwed this one up. But obviously, the French can’t be blamed for the actions of the Germans. Is the Holocaust the darkest chapter in human history? Likely no, but it is one of the darkest chapters in human history, and the idea that it’s a good idea to kill people for no reason, racism is in my mind no reason, just underscores the insanity and irrationality of the menace that Nazi Germany posed. I know that a lot of people like to point out that the Germans hampered their own war effort to continue the mass murder of Jews and others such as Roma and Homosexuals. I think this is an important point, but I will be honest in saying that the Holocaust was – in material terms – a fairly cheap effort, and I can almost assure you that no Holocaust wouldn’t have made much of a difference in the overall German war effort; Germany would still lose WWII. I’ve never been of the mind that there was much of a real possibility for Germany to actually have won WWII. The simple fact is that Germany was incredibly lucky early on in WWII, something I’ve demonstrated on this blog many times, and furthermore Germany had no resources to sustain a long term war against multiple great powers. Germany was in fact, much weaker in WWII, than they have been popularly depicted as, and again this is also due to the fact that the Allies didn’t really want to admit that they were partly to blame for screwing up the war effort early on. Checking Germany in Norway and in France in 1940 should have been a fairly easy thing to have done, requiring fairly minimal improvements. Even invading Germany in September 1939 could have checked them right there and then, at least on paper. So, in a lot of ways the Allies did allow this situation, that culminated with the Holocaust, to develop, and to that extent they have to be blamed also. I mean, if you’re going to go to war then go to war. What the fuck where they waiting on? I don’t know, and no-one else knows either. Well, I do know, the Allies believed in winning the long war, but in the end they did win the long war, but lost the short war, and it had very dire consequences, which could have been avoided. Look, I am against war, and it would be pretty rich of me to sit here in hindsight and criticize people without admitting that I had obviously been against entering any war had I lived in any Allied country at that time, but I am principally opposed to war, not a Nazi sympathizer who actively supported the other side and should not be labeled as anti-war proponents. But once there was a war on, I don’t understand being passive anymore; at that point you’re kinda past that stage. This is my comment to the late General Maurice Gamelin: look general, either you have a damn war or you don’t, but for God's sake make up your mind already or resign man. Well, this is what I would have said to him in September 1939 had I been able to go back in time, and not only to him to Chamberlain as well. But this lassitude seems characteristic of the Allies in the early stage of WWII; this kinda I want to eat but have my cookie mentality. At least I can admit that I would have resigned as PM of France or Britain once Germany marched across the Polish frontier; at that point my role as a peacekeeper would have been finished and I sure as hell would want no part in leading the country through war and imposing conscription on the flower of the youth. I don’t believe in an army, but if there’s to be an army it should be a professional army, made up by people that want to be there and that are well paid, but I don’t need to rail against conscription today, because I’ve done that so much in the past. Of course, the idea of a volunteer army is also democratic, since if people want to defend their country they’re going to sign up, and if they don’t then they’re not going to sign up. It would seem to be in line with democratic principles to be democratic, even if that means the collapse of the country. I don’t object to Sweden being occupied if the army can’t repel the invasion, and I am not going to be helping out; in that event I would be fleeing to Colombia. The logical conclusion is what it is, and that’s not my fault; I am just the messenger. But I am, as usual, getting way ahead of myself; this was supposed to be about the Holocaust, but it turned into this. Well, I don’t have much to say about the Holocaust; I think the Holocaust speaks for itself. Honestly, I don’t have anything that intelligent to add, and if you don’t get that, then go read a history book. Well, I've usually used the Holocaust as an example of why I am strongly opposed to the state and the concept of the rule of law, but you can go back and read about that if you want; I don't have time to rehash that in this post. Signing out.
Reginald Drax – January 28, 2025.
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