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In the wake of the 70th anniversary of the the Normandy landings, Global Research has selected a short list of key articles on the myths and realities of World War II.
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Contrary to conventional beliefs about the Yalta Conference, Stalin would prove to be most accommodating there, agreeing to a formula proposed by the British and Americans and highly advantageous to them, namely, a division of postwar Germany into occupation zones, with only approximately one third of Germany's territory - the later "East Germany" - being assigned to the Soviets.
Roosevelt and Churchill could not have foreseen this happy outcome of the Yalta Conference, from which they would return "in an exultant spirit." In the weeks leading up to the conference, they expected the Soviet leader, buoyed by the recent successes of the Red Army and enjoying a kind of home-game advantage, to be a difficult and demanding interlocutor. A way had to be found to bring him down to earth, to condition him to make concessions despite being the temporary favourite of the god of war.
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Propaganda has always been with us. The difference is that in the 21st century Americans have nothing but propaganda. Nothing else at all. The actual world as it exists is foreign to most Americans.
In 1978 a 20 part series of 48 minutes per episode was released in an American documentary television series narrated by Burt Lancaster. The documentary was titled: "The Unknown War."
Certainly, it was a war unknown to most Americans, raised as they are on propaganda. The Unknown War was a revelation to Americans because it demonstrated beyond all doubt that Nazi Germany lost World War II on the Russian front. Of the 20 episodes, "The Allies," that is, the Anglo-Americans and free French, feature only in number 17. One out of twenty is about the correct proportion of the West's participation in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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 Rethinking World War II: Debunking the Myth of the Good War - Michael Welch, Richard Sanders and Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels
The Second World War has proven to be a major challenge, and a common rebuttal to those holding pacifist beliefs. Even figures such as Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell came to embrace the war, albeit reluctantly, as a necessary evil to stop the tyranny of the Nazis.
Major sectors of the Western World see the involvement of the US, Canada and its allies in the war as principally a defence of democracy and freedom, with the allied landings on the beaches of Normandy as the pivotal turning point that put an end to the threat of fascism. However, a closer look at the events of the mid-twentieth century reveals something different.
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The victory of the Red Army in front of Moscow was a major break...
That the Soviet Union was the scene of the battle that changed the course of World War II, should come as no surprise. War against the Soviet Union was the war Hitler had wanted from the beginning, as he had made very clear on the pages of Mein Kampf, written in the mid-1920s.
In fact, as a German historian has just recently demonstrated, it was a war against the Soviet Union, and not against Poland, France, or Britain, that Hitler had wanted to unleash in 1939. OnAugust 11 of that year, Hitler explained to Carl J. Burckhardt, an official of the League of Nations, that "everything he undertook was directed against Russia," and that "if the West [i.e. the French and the British] is too stupid and too blind to comprehend this, he would be forced to reach an understanding with the Russians, turn and defeat the West, and then turn back with all his strength to strike a blow against the Soviet Union." This is in fact what happened. The West did turn out to be "too stupid and blind", as Hitler saw it, to give him "a free hand" in the east, so he did make a deal with Moscow - the infamous "Hitler-Stalin Pact" - and then unleashed war against Poland, France and Britain. But his objective remained the same: to attack and destroy the Soviet Union as soon as possible.
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The victory of the Red Army in front of Moscow was a major break...
The Red Army won the war with Germany. The Americans and the British showed up after the Wehrmacht was exhausted and in tatters and could offer little resistance. Joseph Stalin believed that Washington and London stayed out of the war until the last minute and left Russia with the burden of defeating Germany.
Hollywood and popular writers have, of course, buried the facts. Americans have all sorts of movies, such as "A Bridge Too Far," that portray insignificant events, however heroic, as turning points in the war. Nevertheless, the facts are clear. The war was won on the Eastern front by Russia. Hollywood's movies are fun, but they are nonsense.
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 The Allies Second Front in World War II: Why Were Canadian Troops Sacrificed at Dieppe? Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels
On August 19, 1942, a contingent of Allied soldiers, sent on a mission from England to the French port of Dieppe, seemingly in an effort to open some sort of "second front," were tragically routed there by the Germans.
Of the total of 6,086 men who made it ashore, 3,623 - almost 60 percent - were either killed, wounded, or captured. The British Army and Navy suffered approximately 800 casualties, and the RAF lost 106 aircraft. The 50 American Rangers who participated in the raid had 3 casualties. But the bulk of the losses were suffered by Canadian troops, with nearly 5,000 men the bulk of the entire force; no less than 3,367 of them - 68 percent! - became casualties; about 900 were killed, nearly 600 were wounded, and the rest were taken prisoner. Of losses such as these, it is traditionally considered that they were "not in vain"; but unsurprisingly, the media and the public wanted to know what the objectives of this raid had been, and what it had achieved, especially in Canada. However, the political and military authorities only provided unconvincing explanations, though these duly found their way into the history books. For example, the raid was presented by Churchill as a "reconnaissance in force," as a necessary test of the German coastal defences.
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