Thread: BNP Chairman´s statement on the Gaza incident

Originally Posted by Gregory Lauder-Frost

Wikipedia ("which anyone can edit"), articles on politics and 20th century history at least are firmly controlled by members of The Left, often citing as authoritative sources, newspapers. Give us a break. Those who try inserting the truth soon have their edits reverted. It is the newest and most damning source of disinformation of this age, hiding being neutral artiles on geography, plants etc. Please don't cite their **** to me, at least.

I have a copy of the Black Book of Communism. It has been "extensively criticised"? By whom? The Left? What a surprise!! I think the writer referred to is saying that there were no extermination camps like those the Nazis built from 1942 onwards. However, to say that the forcd labour camps in Russia, particularly those in the arctic circle, were not "Death Camps" when they murdered more people than any nazi camp is surely ridiculous.

I don't accept that wiki is particularly left wing, and if it is that can only reflect a left wing basis in the elite which is writing it and therefore the intellectual elite of the West itself. Wiki is the greatest assemblage of knowledge ever created, making even the most comprehensive of encyclopedias look like patchy and shallow pamphlets. A lot of people who have relied on access to private libraries and extensive eduction instinctively feel threatened by it as it undermines their advantages and democratizes knowledge.

Trying to dismiss wiki for being left wing is like trying to dismiss reality for being left wing, not that you would be the first to do that.

As for your argument about Russian labour camps Vs German death camps. Last year in Britain cars killed considerably more people than heroin, the difference being that cars were not designed to kill people and that they did was incidental to their otherwise useful purpose, heroin does not have the same justification. Which is why heroin is considered an evil and cars not. The same principle is why German atrocities, which were intrinsically senseless, are universally considered worse than Russian Communist ones which, while they might have been disgusting and abhorrent, at least had a useful purpose from some perspectives underlying them.

Originally Posted by Gregory Lauder-Frost

Hahaha. I had to laugh when I read his comments there. In the last twenty years it has been shown that McCarthy was right. Many obituaries have appeared wih the full stories and almost of all of those hauled before the Senate Committee and who lied to them were in fact secretly active and mostly card-carrying members of the Communist Party. Because The Liberal-Left have control of the media they have spent decades demonising Senator McCarthy. To me he was a great hero of the fight against communism. Pity we hadn't had that sort of committee in this counrty. We could have cleaned out the education service and Civil Service before they destoryed our young and our country with their subversion.

But of course McCarthy was right and the US elite is full of Commies, which would obviously explain why it is the Socialist country it is.

Originally Posted by British-Conservatism

It is interesting to see how you see critisism of Communism as some how being pro-nazi.
See how the left have you thinking?

It's more interesting to see how criticism of fascism is seen as being pro-communist by some.

Originally Posted by Wowbanger TIP

You presuppose that the cost of the war was known before hand. Hindsight is a historical crime.

It would have been entirely reasonable to suppose that the Second World War would have been a short lived affair. Based on the final stage of the Great War, the hundred days, and interwar conflicts a war of mobility fought by armored and motorized divisions backed by air power seemed likely to be intense but concluded quickly. Only the French believed in a war of attrition on the model of the last war. Moreover with Germany fighting on two fronts and on paper markedly inferior to the allies in terms of men and equipment and with a supposedly substantial anti-Nazi German socialist/communist population waiting for the chance to overthrow Hitler the prospects seemed promising.

It may seem to some that the determination to maintain the balance of
power in Europe was unreasonable. However this has to be seen in its historical context. The Congress of Vienna had been written on the basis of establishing a balance of power in Europe. From the perspective of 1939 it seemed to have successfully delivered a century of peace broken only by German aggression in 1861, 1866, 1870 and 1914. Remarkable given that peace was traditionally the exception and not the rule in Europe before 1815. It appeared self evident that a united Gross Deutsch nation was simply a disaster waiting to happen, as indeed it was, and if it could be tamed long term peace could be re-established.

Indeed the fear of German power was the central driving force of the establishment of the long succession of supra-national organizations which have culminated in the EU. When you hear the argument "the EU guarantees peace in Europe", which was the main argument in its favor for decades, the implicit subtext is "either we join and manage Germany or fight them again". Not that most of the dullards advancing such argument have the historical literacy to understand that.

The idea of allowing Germany, already showing an aggressive disregard for the authority of Versailles and the power of France and Britain, and already pumped up on Austria and the Sudetenland to add half of Poland to it's resource base would have seemed insanity to any historically literate person in 39'. Particularly with the Alacas-Lorraine question promising a reckoning in the near future anyway.

Morality and the Camps had almost zero impact on the decision to fight in 39' that was all geo-politics. Dozens of Eastern European regimes used similar methods and no-one cared then and no-one cares now. Moreover since the Holocaust was in the future it is far from certain that the French and British might not have done something similar in the near future in order to contain socialist radicalism themselves.

You may argue that "It will all be over by Christmas" seems ludicrous given the recent experience of the Great War, but that's the Progressive mentality for you, things are different now, it cant happen to us because we are special.

You may argue that it is unfair to characterize everyone who questions the declaration of war in 39' as Nazis but you must know that if you unload on anyone doing so you will hit a Nazi 99% of the time. None of my argument have appealed to any great morality anyway and the only criticism on this score I'm leveling at the Nazis is that they knew their actions must result in a general European conflict.

Perhaps it would have been entirely reasonable to suppose the Second World War might have been a short lived affair. But is there any indication that any British politician or military commander of significance actually thought so.

The evidence would appear to point in the other direction. Prime Minister Chamberlain understood what it might actually cost Britain to become involved in another war against Germany - hence his preferred policy of appeasement.

On returning from one meeting with Hitler, he was said to have looked down from his aircraft at the River Thames below, which would always provide aerial guidance to any future German bomber, even if blackout precautions were imposed.

He believed - as many others did - that ´the bomber would always get through´.

Fear of the bomber aircraft was nearly as great as the fear of nuclear weapons now.

The general public watched the movie Things to Come in cinemas in 1937, with its predictive sci-fi portrayals of bombing raids. My mother said it terrified her (although in practice she actually enjoyed the war and being in the WAAFs..).

Germany was not of course ´fighting on two fronts´in 1939. Moreover, the Nazi-Soviet pact of that year would surely have put paid to any expectation that it was likely to do so.

´A war of mobility fought by armoured and motorised divisions backed by air power´ does indeed sound rather like the short, swift German campaigns of the time - especially the rapid progress German divisions made towards Paris once they had broken through in the Ardennes.

Surely, though, this calculation would not have applied to quite the same extent to any British forces dispatched to the Continent, who, after all, had to make the journey there, with all the logistical problems involved. The British would mainly have had to rely on the French army in their land war stage, and the French - as you say - were planning for a war of attrition along WWI lines.

And is there any evidence at all that the British expected resistance inside Germany from the ´supposedly substantial anti-Nazi German socialist/communist population´. Surely these troublemakers (trade unions, socialists & the like) had all been dealt with in 1933, during Hitler´s first few months in power.

They had certainly not shown any active signs of resistance from 1933 to 1939. Therefore the chances of them doing so after 1939 would have seemed pretty minimal, I would have thought.

I strongly doubt if the British expected any active resistance to come from the left that would have weakened Hitler´s position inside Germany.

I take your points about the balance of power in Europe having largely brought peace since 1815.

However there seemed to be no great enthusiasm for containing potential German power from 1919 to 1939, apart from the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which even Britain and France seemed ultimately unwilling to defend at various times during the 1930s when its terms were being overturned by Germany.

What supra-national organisations existed then to contain Germany. I was under the impression that Germany was even excluded from The League of Nations.

Germany may have been showing an aggressive disregard for the authority of Versailles, but they were surely assisted by the former allies who failed to enforce its terms. When Germany remilitarised the Rhineland in 1936, plenty of British people suggested that it was pointless to try and stop the Germans marching into their own backyard.

This cannot be rationalised by calling all those who did so Nazi sympathisers or the like.

The fact is that by the mid-1930s the clauses of Versailles meant next to nothing - even to the British, incuding those who were ´historically literate´.

If they had meant anything, the Brits and French would not have allowed (from 1936 to 1938) the occupation of the Rhineland, the Sudetenland, the rest of Czechoslavakia, and then Austria.

Poland proved to be a tipping point, but it had no special significance. By 1939 the British, at least, no longer cared about Versailles.

I don´t recall anyone - politician or military leader - saying it would all be over by Christmas either. After 1939 the British seemed prepared to do whatever was necessary to win - regardless of how long it took. I just think they were wrong to have done so.

By the way, would it have been correct to have declared war on Germany in 1861 or 1866. Or perhaps the Franco-Prussian war should have developed into a wider European conflict involving Britain.

I mean, I wonder exactly how large Germany was permitted to become before the British decided it had grown large enough. In fact this position actually makes no sense. We ought to have been able to live with a more powerful Germany. We are forced to now, after all, despite our membership of the European Union.