Notes on Introduction to HITLER'S WAR by David Irving

http://www.unz.com/article/introduction-to-hitlers-war/

I also think your use of sneer quotes in describing Holocaust denial — which Irving no longer engages in but certainly did at the same he very stupidly sued Deborah Lipstadt — is troubling... I can also demonstrate that Irving is, at the very least, a full-blown anti-Semite, although I suspect you know that.

I don't like the term 'Holocaust Denial' because it sounds like a religious concept. We are expected to worship Holocaust as some kind of faith. But when it comes to actual history, we either know or don't know, believe or disbelieve what we are told. It's not a matter of Denying.
If someone knows little or nothing about the Ukraine Famine, he can't be a called a Famine Denier. He just doesn't know. Also, if his understanding of the Event runs counter to the account of the Ukrainian government, he is less a denier than a disbeliever of the Official Narrative. The current Ukrainian Narrative says 8 million died in the 'Holodomor'. But there are studies that show the numbers were more likely 3.5 million. So, if one chooses the latter number, is he a 'denier'?

There are two kinds of people who muck up the Holocaust debate:

Those who insist on Faith and Worship. So, we are to never question the 6 million figure. Never ask why there was such hostility toward Jews. Just believe that pure-as-snow 6 million Jews were killed for totally irrational reasons. This is a cult or neo-religion, not history.

Then, you got those who have a hardon for Hitler Cult and Nazis OR hate Jewish Power so much that they are willing to believe that the Holocaust was just a big hoax. Hitler was just a misunderstood Nice Guy and if some Jews died, it was all an accident or due to typhus... or Hitler's henchmen did it behind his back. These people are not interested in history. They just want to desecrate what has become holy to Jews. It's all a quasi-religious battle between Holocaust iconographers and Holocaust iconoclasts.

But then, same is true of some on the Left. Godfree Robert's apologies for Mao are incredible, and they were actually commonplace prior to revelations of Mao's true record under Deng. This sort of thing is more a psychological phenomenon, the need to worship something in our godless age. Maybe if Godfree became Godfull, he wouldn't need false idols to worship. If Godfree Roberts believed as he did before the revelations of Mao's monstrosities, it'd be somewhat understandable. But the fact that he continues to apologize for Mao even after so much of the truth has come out shows that some people have a certain psychological condition that must BELIEVE in something. I don't think Godfree Roberts is evil. He is just 'possessed'.

David Irving was a sly kind of Holocaust Desecrator. He didn't outright reject historical accounts or facts. He just played dumb or feigned ignorance on certain matters. Or, his standards for historical veracity on the subject became impossibly high. So, even though he was more than willing to accept the standard statistics on Stalin's mass-killing, he demanded absolute proof on Nazi mass-killings. His double-standard readily accepted stats on leftist violence but insisted on absolute veracity when it came to Nazi mayhem. Irving could believe Stalin ordered all those mass-killings but played 'where's the beef?' on Nazi mass-killings, i.e. unless some document connecting Hitler to the Holocaust could be unearthed, we were to remain skeptical of the Fuhrer's responsibility. But this kind of moral logic is ridiculous. Hitler was the top dog and set the tone for Nazi Germany. Even if he didn't give a directive for the mass killing, he was still responsible in the way that Mao was responsible for the mass deaths of Great Leap and Cultural Revolution. He set in the motion the terrible events and created a climate of total fanaticism.

As for Lipstadt, she is a monster. When the Irving trial was unfolding, I sympathized with her because MSM gave the impression that Irving was against free speech, i.e. she opined about Irving and was sued for defamation. I figured no one should be sued for an opinion. But more recently, I learned that it was Lipstadt and her ilk who used muscle to prevent Irving's work from being published. So, Irving was acting to defend his career as an important historian.

Lipstadt is one of those monsters who toss the term 'denier' as a smear campaign against any counter-narrative thought-criminal. She even used the term against Ernest Nolte even though he never discounted the Holocaust Narrative. Nolte said the Nazis, though evil and destructive, were reacting to comparably evil and destructive forces of communism. But that made him a 'denier' according to Lipstadt. And given all the ludicrous antipathy toward Putin, Russia, Assad, Syria, and Iran from Jewish globalist power, I think more people are waking up the fact that MSM is full of crap.

The recent Hollywood movie about Churchill has him being friendly with a Negro on a London subway. In fact, Churchill had very low opinion of dark folks and was a total imperialist who believed in British mastery over non-white subjects. Also, it's funny that a historian can write awful things AS LONG AS they suck up to Jewish Power. Take Andrew Roberts who is favored by MSM. This guy wrote about how it was justified for the British Imperialists to mow down people in India to maintain order. But he gets a pass because he's always sucking up to Zionists and so weepy-poo about the Holocaust. And consider all the academic hacks who are favored because they favor 'new cold war' with Russia and destruction of Syria and Libya.

https://newrepublic.com/article/61052/white-man-the-job-bushs-imperial-historian

As for Irving's 'antisemitism', I don't find that to be a problem. Where does it say that anyone must like a certain people? Many American scare-monger about Chinese, Russians, Iranians, Muslims, Mexicans, and etc. And many Jews express hostility toward Russians, White Evangelicals, Muslims, Palestinians, Iranians, Mormons, and etc. Who says anyone has to like anyone or any people? Plenty of people dislike Gypsies. Plenty of people are put off by Hindus. And plenty of Hindus are put off by Muslims. Mexicans love to bash gringos. So, why is it some kind of sin to not like Jews? Jews don't have to like all peoples, and no people should be expected to like Jews as a cosmic law. But in the West, three peoples -- Jews, blacks, and homos -- MUST be liked. Why? It sounds supremacist to me. If blacks can dislike any people, any people should be free to dislike blacks.

So, if Irving doesn't like Jews, that's okay... just like it's okay if Jews don't like Iranians or Russians. (Just read what Ann Applebaum has written on Russian people and culture.) With Irving, the problem is he let his personal feelings get in the way of assessing history, and that's been a big minus. Eric Hobsbawm had a similar blindspot with Stalin even though he finally admitted that Stalin killed a lot of people.

https://newrepublic.com/article/107966/eugene-genovese-eric-hobsbawm-age-of-extremes

I think Irving's worldview is, at the root, similar to that of Paul Johnson. Both are romantics of British Imperialism. They see it as mostly glorious than wicked. They believe the world benefited greatly as the White Man's Burden. Brits were the rightful lords of the world. So, Johnson even makes light of the British opium trade in China and blamed the Chinese for becoming addicted to the stuff. Both mourn the passing of the Empire. Despite similar sentiments about the Empire, where they diverge is in the Why(the empire fell) and How(the Brits should cope in the New Order).
Johnson blames Moral Relativism unleashed by WWI and overt German aggression. Instead of being more civil and well-mannered in international affairs, the Germans got too eager and boorish and messed things up for everyone.
In contrast, Irving's position is a harder version of Buchanan's that the British should have sided with their racial brethren the Germans instead of fighting a Anglo vs German brothers' war in both WWI and WWII. Irving sees Jews as mucking up the racial-brotherly relations between Anglos and Germans.

I suspect Johnson privately has a lot of trepidation about Jews as well, but his hopes are like those of Jared Taylor. He believes the West has no choice but to be philosemitic because the Holocaust was too horrible and Jews have gotten too rich and powerful. So, unless the Right can win over Jews, it is at a serious disadvantage in moral and monetary terms.
Therefore, Johnson's shtick is that Antisemitism was really the result of Moral Relativism, Radical Modernity, and Teutonic irrationalism that were heroically countered by rational, moderate, and Christian civilization of the enlightened British Empire. So, Jews should NOT see Anglos and Germans as equal 'racists' but forge an alliance with Anglos as fellow enlightened imperialists who should rule over the world. The template for what the Saker calls the Anglo-Zionist World Order.

A Response to "Warrior-Hero of the West: Erich Hartmann, the Blond Knight of Germany" by Karl Nemmersdorf

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2018/05/08/warrior-hero-of-the-west-erich-hartmann-the-blond-knight-of-germany/#comment-310285

 “Yet, the way he performed his duty, with courage and honor—and deadly efficiency—made him the highest scoring ace in history and one of the genuine heroes of Western history. Erich Hartmann is a splendid example of the qualities peculiar to Western Faustian man, such as an acute sense of individuality, iron willpower, and utmost daring.”

Sheesh. So. The Occidental Observer is now a full-blown Neo-Nazi site? What a waste of potential. It's almost as if TOO wants to live up to the smear campaign level against it by ADL and SPLC. But then, if TOO is really has a hardon for Nazis, it's not much of smear campaign, is it, to call it a Neo-Nazi site?

Look, I understand that many men who fought for the Wehmrmacht had sterling qualities as soldiers. And I can’t blame the soldiers because soldiers of all nations were recruited, trained, and sent to battle. German soldiers were no different. From movies like DAS BOOT, STALINGRAD, and DOWNFALL, we can see lots of good men, tough warriors with the right stuff. And we know soldiers must do as they are told. US soldiers were no different. When ordered to incinerate entire cities in Germany, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, they had no choice but to follow orders. Soldiers are drilled and trained to obey. Therefore, we can’t blame soldiers for national policy. They can only be judged by how they performed in the battlefield.

But soldiers like the one featured in the the Occidental Observer article also serve as a cautionary tale that small virtues are not enough for a morally just order. Courage, honor, loyalty, dedication, camaraderie, and toughness are good virtues to have. But those qualities don’t decide the destiny of a nation. They don't ask the big questions. When a nation is ruled by a pathological nut like Hitler, even the best of men in the military are used to invade other nations, drop bombs on civilians, and even commit mass genocide.

There were plenty of Good Men in the German military, Japanese military, US military, Soviet military, and etc. The movie ENEMY BELOW shows that your average German soldier or sailor was not a monster with horns sprouting from his head. He was likely a man of courage, honor, and patriotism willing to fight and die for his country. But lots of Germans with such virtues didn't prevent WWII, the mass destruction of Europe, and the tragic immolation of Germany. They were mindful of being dutiful and committed but mindless about the bigger picture of a nation, the future of which was to be decided to psychopaths.

In a complex world, especially if you’re a member of a powerful nation that can destroy weaker nations, you must ask… “What kind people at the top are making policy that will affect countless lives?” Too many Good Germans blindly trusted Hitler because he had charisma and could give spellbinding speeches. To be sure, Hitler did do some good things, that is before he decided to throw caution to the winds and trigger a world war. In the end, what a sick tragedy that SO MANY GOOD MEN were wasted in a terrible war ignited by a pathological egotistical lunatic whose grand vision was to invade Russia, wipe out tens of millions, and turn survivors into illiterate helots.

And of course, we have the same problem now in the US. Lots of US soldiers are good guys, men of virtue and honor. But did US soldiers have a choice when they were ordered to invade Iraq? Did they have agency and true moral understanding? No, they were fed lies by the Jew-run Media and Judeo-Nazi Neocon warmongers whose agenda was to goad stupid goyim into fighting and dying in Wars for Israel and the Empire of Judea.

Sadly, all those US soldiers, though possessed of small virtues, lacked a larger understanding of the world and failed to realize that they were just toy soldiers of pathological crazy Jews(the new hitlers) who now control America.

We can acknowledge the fact that there were courageous and honorable men who fought for Nazi Germany. But it is morally disingenuous to to discuss that reality without considering the larger context of how all those Good Men were manipulated and ultimately destroyed by a pathological lunatic in a war that came to consume 40 to 50 million European lives.

By the way, ‘Judeo-Nazis’ is apt because, while ‘Nazi’ in the historical sense refers to Germans of the 30s and WWII, it can mean any group that acts like ‘nazis’ in the generic sense.
Now, how did Nazis act? Imperialist, supremacist, contemptuous, murderous, genocidal, pathological, ruthless, devious. Then, any existing group that acts most like that are generic nazis.

Well, what power acts most like that today? Jewish supremacist power, of course. Even Haaretz used the term ‘Judeo-Nazi’ to describe certain kinds of Jews.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-not-neo-nazis-judeo-nazis-1.5250205

Today, it is Jews who are most committed to spreading hatred all around the world. Jews use MSM, their ministry of propaganda, to spread HATE against Russians, Syrians, Iranians, Palestinians, and white gentiles. But even as Judeo-Nazis spit  on the faces of white gentiles, they also order dumb goyim to fight and die in Wars for Israel.

Germans went crazy in WWII period. But Jews also need to look in the mirror and realize the sickness in their own souls. How ironic that Jews, who invoke the holocaust 24/7, have become the very supremacist scum that they've condemned for so long.