INHUMAN PHILOSOPHY OF NAZISM A FREQUENT INTERLOPER IN HISTORY Final Edition

• Published in: Kingston Whig-standard (1993)
• Main Author: Reynolds, Neil
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kingston, Ont Postmedia Network Inc 09.09.1989
• Subjects: Chamberlain, Neville; Goebbels, Joseph; Kingston
• ISSN: 0839-0754

In 1938, the German military still held Hitler in substantial contempt, and still counselled peace. In 1938, the German commander- in-chief was still warning Hitler against war. In 1938, the chief of the army general staff was plotting [Hitler]'s overthrow, and committed suicide when he failed. In pre-appeasement 1938, Hitler's chief of naval staff wrote this memo: "There is still hope for a general relaxation of tension in Europe. There can be no doubt that in any conflict European in scope, Germany will be the loser. I have not spoken with any ranking officer in any of the three branches of the armed services who does not share this opinion, or who does not believe that an attack on the Czech state would develop into a European war." For the past 50 years, the Soviet apologists for the Hitler- [Stalin] pact have defended it on the basis that Stalin had "bought time." For a precise parallel to the British television documentary on Mr. [Neville Chamberlain], imagine a Soviet documentary entitled God Bless You, Comrade Stalin. As Western revisionists look for a gentler perspective on Chamberlain, however, Soviet revisionists are now confessing Stalin's operative strategic objective -- a territorial land grab from which whole peoples have still not escaped. All of the totalitarian movements in our century have shared the same principles as the Nazis, although the portions varied from National Socialism to Fascism to Communism. All of these movements were, in philosophical origin and philosophical vision, compatible. And in the event, Stalin (who had changed his name from Dzhugashvili to "The Man of Steel") trusted the fuhrer. Hitler said: "There is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it." At the festive signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939, Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop declared that he felt as if he were in the company of old Nazi comrades. As, indeed, for all practical purposes, he was.