Posted on 09/01/2008 11:39:27 AM PDT by decimon
On this day in 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today.
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It is a poorly-written mess, according to literary critics, but the ideas contained within Adolf Hitler's 1925 tome "Mein Kampf" (or My Struggle) sadly would resonate well beyond the book's quality of prose.
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...Hitler's original title for his work, "Four Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice," was also changed to the more marketable "My Struggle." Hitler did not, in fact, write the book himself, but dictated to his friend Rudolf Hess, who was imprisoned alongside him.
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The war in EUROPE started on Sept. 1, 1939 [France and Great Britain declared war on Sept 3rd]. WORLD WAR II started in 1931, when Japan invaded Manchuria.
It really started 28 June 1919 when the forces of Modernism crafted the ill-fated Treaty of Lausanne and the Treaty of Versailles — both designed to create the “New World Order” that we currently struggle with.
You are correct, of course, as is, in a sense, narses.
But I would argue there never was a Second World War. There was only one world war in the 20th Century -- it began in 1914 and finally played out 75 years later, in 1989, with the collapse of the last great empire, the Soviet Union.
I would also argue the Versailles Treaty had NOTHING to do with the start of "World War II."
The reason is, it would not have mattered in the least what that treaty said. Germany did not feel defeated. They convinced themselves they had been betrayed and "stabbed in the back," and they were more that eager for Round Two.
So Versailles was not the REASON, it was only a convenient EXCUSE.
Better said, thank you.
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