TMOGV, Chapter 22: Germany as Victim

As the Kaiser did not start World War I, Hitler and the Nazis did not start World War II. Moreover, Hitler did everything within his power to avoid a war with Britain, France and the United States. He also made a number of peace initiatives as the war progressed, all of which were either rejected or ignored. Britain and France declared war on Germany, not the other way around. All of Germany’s military initiatives in the West, i.e., the invasion of Norway, the invasion of France, the occupation of the Low Countries, etc., were preemptive strikes that were at bottom defensive in nature. The invasion of the Soviet Union was preemptive, as well. Germany also did not start the bombing of civilians, Britain did.

If the question is asked, what did Hitler and the Nazis do to earn their dreadful reputation, the answer will invariably be “the Holocaust.”Yet, the Holocaust did not occur (if it occurred at all) until after the war began, and only then as a result of the war. Yet, the Nazis had been characterized as evil monsters long before the war began; but on what basis? Nothing had happened to the Jews up to the time the war began except for certain restrictions placed on them, despite all the false accusations of brutal repression and predictions of extermination constantly spewing out of the Jewish press. What finally happened to the Jews, if it happened at all, was in the nature of a self-fulfilling prophecy, brought on by the very ones doing the prophesying.