Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Here's a CBS News report of Hitler's speech from 70 years ago:
Here's an interesting collection of propaganda posters (as well as a bunch of other photo collections worth looking at), courtesy of Life Magazine: WWII: Intense Propaganda Posters. Some you will have seen, some perhaps you haven't. [via someone on Twitter.]
You know, when people used to joke about Pat Buchanan's speeches that they "sounded better in the original German," I used to think that was just some anti-conservative bias ('all conservatives are really Nazis'), but Buchanan, with his bizarro-world efforts to rehabilitate Adolf Hitler's reputation, is proving them right. Here: Did Hitler Want War? Buchanan's answer is, of course, no. After all, if only the world had acceded to his eminently reasonable demands, war (at least with Germany), could have been avoided. Are there people now getting their knowledge of history by reading Buchanan? Sadly, yes. [Update: Real Clear Politics has apparently yanked Buchanan's article (come on, RCP, tell us why!), but it is still up at Town Hall.]
Update: Via,The journalist who got the scoop: She was on her first Telegraph assignment and only 26 when she spotted German tanks invading Poland. Now 97, Clare Hollingworth talks to Malcolm Moore.
Seventy years ago, a sleek limousine crossed the border of Poland and Germany and sped along the autobahn between Beuthen and Gleiwitz. Inside was a 26-year-old reporter on her first assignment for The Daily Telegraph, who was about to break the scoop of the century.
Once past Gleiwitz, the road began to climb a hill. Clare Hollingworth, now nearly 98 years old, suddenly caught sight of 65 German motorcycle dispatch riders, who overtook her car and sped away with a roar. As she looked to the side, a gust of wind lifted up the hessian sheets that had been strung alongside the road.
That was when she spied hundreds of tanks, armoured cars and field artillery - von Rundstedt's 10th Army and its Panzer Corps - massed in the valley below, waiting to roll into Poland and begin the Second World War...
August 23, 1939, the infamous molotov-ribbentrop pact.
September 1, 1939 nazi germany invades Poland.
16 days later, September 17, 1939, the soviet union invades Poland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
socialism has a lot of blood on its hands.
Somehow people today believe that the drama of World War and the evils of Twentieth Century Fascism (and Communism) are anachronistic; that such terrors will never occur in this new century. Since man's genetic makeup and capacity for evil hasn't changed in the last hundred years; how can this idea be rational?