Re: Who started WWII?
History is always written by the winners, so it is always very difficult to find out what really happened.
The Origins of the Second World War
by A.J.P. Taylor
One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller.
Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as part of an evil master plan, but blundered into it partly by accident, aided by the shortcomings of others.
Fiercely attacked for vindicating Hitler, A.J.P. Taylor's stringent re-examination of the events preceding the Nazi invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939 opened up new debate, and is now recognized as a brilliant and classic piece of scholarly research."
One thing, however, is for sure, the Austrian-born did not stand alone.
Without the likes of Goebbels, Emil Maurice (founding member of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He was of mixed Jewish and ethnic German ancestry), Julius Schreck, Heinrich Himmler, Theodor Morell, Wernher von Braun (later invited to the US to work at NASA, the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle), Adolf Busemann (Operation Paperclip scientist too, the mind behind the swept wing, which improved aircraft performance at high speeds) and many more.
If the Austrian-born would have stood alone he would have remained a house-painter with some strange ideas.
That is the danger of people supporting a narcist person in a feeling of absolute power that can turn into megalomania.
It happened then, and it is happening again...hopefully this time people get wise and get rid of this person before the same misery happens once again.