For many years the most widely read articles on my website were the ones exposing the false history of World War II with which Americans are indoctrinated. Indeed, all of the tales of America’s wars fed to us are false, including the First World War and Lincoln’s invasion of the Confederacy, an independent country that had seceded from the United States.
When A.J.P. Taylor blew the whistle on the fake history of World War II, it cost him his position at Oxford University. David Irvin’s histories, Churchill’s War and Hitler’s War were best sellers and widely acknowledged as definitive histories, the first history of the war resting entirely on the complete documentary record. These histories are the facts and nothing other than the facts. Nevertheless, they cost David Irving persecutions that damaged his health, stole his home, and intimidated his publishers.
Decades of writing have taught me that it is very difficult to inform people that what they know is wrong. This is particularly the case with American conservatives if you inform them that they are mistaken about something such as a war to which their patriotism is attached. Invariably, the question is: “Why are you making excuses for the enemy?”
False histories, particularly about wars, get written because the interpretation of the war has been laid down by war propaganda. The historian who tells the story is inhibited by public beliefs created by years of propaganda that attributes all crimes to the defeated enemy. As has long been known, “the victors write the history.” Writing a favorable history of a glorious victory over evil assures the historian’s success. To be a successful historian, all you have to do is to overlook inconvenient truths and tell some lies.
It does not help the truthful historian that he has all the facts. The facts are not important. Upholding the righteousness of the victor is all that counts. The reason the court historians prevail is that they uphold “our side.” The truthful historians fail because they are are seen as apologists for “the other side.” This is true even in top academic institutions, such as Oxford University which deposed Taylor and Columbia University which deposed Harry Elmer Barnes for his truthful history of World War I, The Genesis of the World War. Today anyone who tells the truth about the so-called “Civil War” is dismissed as a racist. The term “Civil War” is itself a lie. A civil war is when two sides fight for control of the government. The southern states seceded and had their own government. The Confederate States of America fought because they were invaded.
To the extent that public opinion influences politics, falsified history results in dysfunctional democracy. The propagandistic explanation of 9/11 and consequent “War on Terror” turned Muslims into a threat, and, thus, the ease with which Americans went along with wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somolia, and Syria, and the ease with which Israel and its neoconservative allies have gained acceptance for war with Iran. The propaganda of the long Cold War made it easy to blame Russia for the war with Ukraine. And so on. So we have today American democracy conducting a foreign policy based entirely on lies and deceptions. This certainly indicates dysfunctional democracy.
Barnes’ book is 735 pages, and it is about events that happened prior to the births of those alive today. Irving’s World War II histories exceed 4,000 pages not counting the unpublished third volume of Churchill’s War, which we might never see as the Jews succeeded in intimidating Irving’s publishers who have made no attempt to collect the largely finished manuscript and publish it.
Obviously, a large task awaits any American who cares to bring his understanding in line with the facts. Moreover, few Americans are sufficiently educated to be able to associate the names, treaties, and events of a distant past with anything they know.
There is a short cut. The search engine on my website can be used to pull up my articles on the subject, or you can turn to Ron Unz’s latest offering — https://www.unz.com/runz/the-true-history-of-world-war-ii/ .
Unz’s article is very long for an American reader, but it brings together most everything including Hitler’s alliance with the Zionist Jews. It is a masterful presentation and much shorter than the 4,000 pages of Irving’s scholarship. For Americans who find reading a chore, Unz provides an auditory rendition of his article. It is difficult everywhere in the Western world today for anyone to be factual about World War II, but Unz doesn’t blink. Conservatives continue to push the rah-rah America version which is total bunkum, as Unz demonstrates.
World War II was long ago, ancient history to the young. So why is it important to know anything about it? The answer is that the false history continues to have adverse effects on our prospects today. Once we understand how thoroughly we have been deceived we will be open to doubts about the equally false explanations of today. In a world with nuclear weapons and engineered pandemics, false explanations can result in the termination of life on the planet.