Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
"Popular history is much like a comic book. It is presented in terms of a Star Wars struggle between good and evil. Bad Nazis. Good Englishmen. Invincible Americans. Absolutely heroic communist Russians.
Anyone with the slightest knowledge of history knows this to be the most puerile nonsense. The 'good' Russians signed a spoils pact with the 'bad' Germans. The saintly Zionists sacrificed their fellow Jews to the Germans while transferring the seed of the master race to Palestine. As for the British, they set their usual standard in "war crimes."
A comic book usually involves a superhero out to save the world. WWII offers us three 'superheroes' - FDR, Churchill and Stalin.
FDR could not walk but could fly to Yalta. Churchill could write superbly when not drunkenly stumbling from one military disaster to another. Stalin could acquit himself of his own crimes faster than O.J. Simpson.
In the role of Satan, you have Adolf Hitler who "struggled mightily before succumbing to the irresistible forces of good."
As a traditional morality play for comic book brains, you have the obligatory happy ending. The German fiends are executed at Nuremberg. Truth is redeemed, and the Jews are re-born in Palestine.
This was the comic book for many years.
But now we have a new edition. The superheroes failed after all. They didn't rescue the Jews in time. Worse yet, like the Vatican, they didn't even believe it was happening! No one "rescued Jews." They greedily took their gold and hid it, without title, in Swiss banks for fifty years!
Don't laugh, ladies and gentlemen. This isn't Beavis and Butthead. It's your university professor, your media commentator, your average everyday citizen speaking.
It's worse than the stork who brings the baby. Everyone knows THAT'S a fib!"
Below is my reader letter:
"I certainly agree with you about our need for "demons" of which Adolf Hitler is currently number one. Remember George Orwell's "1984" (interestingly, the future when he wrote it; now our past) and its "five minutes of hate"? Or was it ten minutes?
I also believe that the real holocaust of the 20th century was World War II itself. It was followed by the greatest moral and cultural revolution the world has ever seen, unleashing evil forces and overturning generally accepted moral norms. (...)
Of course we must be constantly examining our knowledge of these past events and sometimes we will find other demons than the popular ones.
Communism is now getting a free pass while the Swiss are pummeled. This will change in time. I have no problem with constantly reevaluating the facts about Hitler; I'm not yet ready to build him a monument.
I am constantly reminded of William Butler Yeats' great poem, "The Second Coming" containing these lines about our times:
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
These lines always come to mind when I see what Ernst Zundel and Professor Faurisson are subjected to. I guess that's why I'm a revisionist."
I guess that's why I am one, too.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Yes! For three weeks the war had been going on inside Germany, and all of us knew very well that if the girls were German they could be raped and then shot. This was almost a combat distinction."
(Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn in "The Gulag Archipelago")