Re: Was WWII more than the Holocaust?

Arthur Heartfield (aheart@MNSI.NET)
Fri, 1 May 1998 21:08:08 -0400 

Senneville wrote:

> My name is Pat Senneville and I teach a suburban Detroit
> Catholic High School.  I teach American History and my focus on WWII has
> always been from the American perspective:  Why did we get involved in
> this war?  What role did we play before we became combatants and after?
> What role did we play in the ending of the war?

                The "American Perspective" is less than half of the story.
To understand and reply effectively to this student's questions - and rebut
his beliefs - you will have to go back to the life story of Adolf Hitler,
alias 'Schickelgruber', beginning with his Munich Beerhall Putsch in 1923 in
cohorts with Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering (all German ex-servicemen
1914-18), his defeat and imprisonment when he occupied his time writing
'Mein Kampf' (My Struggle) which sets out in detail his plans for German
world domination, his rise to power through a rigged election in 1933, and
his subsequent establishment of Germany as the pre-eminent world power with
the help of Krupp, Thyssen and the German-American Bund, thus avenging the
German defeat in 1918. In 1937-8 Britain, France and a very few Americans
woke up to the fact - far too late - that the capitalistic and democratic
systems enjoyed by those countries would be destroyed in five years or less
if the Nazis were not eliminated from the world scene; in the event it took
seven years to eliminate them from power, but of course they still exist
today and remain a threat.        Jews, Christians, Freemasons, Gypsies and
all other such bodies were considered a threat to Nazism by Hitler, Himmler,
Goebbels, Goering, Hess and company, and were therefore to be eliminated to
facilitate Nazism's domination of the world. Communists were also a prime
target; hence the German attack on Soviet Russia in 1941.
        Probably the easiest way for you to present these irrefutable facts
to your students would be to obtain and collate as many European newspapers
of the period 1920 to 1947 as possible. A good many of these contemporary
newspapers will be available on microfiche; translation will be a problem,
of course, which can be partly overcome by using such sources as "The
Times", "Daily Telegraph", " Manchester Guardian" and BBC Radio transcripts
from Britain. By this means it should be possible to convince your students
that the "Holocaust", while regrettable and inexcusable as a crime against
mankind, had no effect whatever on the cause, conduct or outcome of WWII; in
fact, it was not generally known until early 1945.  As a serving British
soldier 1939-46 I can assure you that we were fighting ONLY to make sure
that an evil system aimed at world domination would not succeed in doing so.

                                                    Yours very sincerely,
                                                                Arthur
G.Heartfield.

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