There was a lot to disagree with the historian Cooper on, and it was his characterization of Churchill I found offensive and flat wrong.
But historians are offensive and wrong all the time.
My main interest was in two things: This ‘episode’ being used by the Left as a tool to damage someone they hate (Conservatives and Tucker), and secondly, the branding of Tucker and Cooper as anti-semites by saying they denied the Holocaust.
They did nothing of the sort. Cooper was discussing the plight of the Soviet POWs who got treatment even worse than the Jews, to the point there were accounts of concentration camp Jewish inmates who took pity on the Russians.
Cooper may have been completely wrong about the how and why of the treatment of those POWs, but NOTHING in that entire interview had anything to do with the Jewish Holocaust and the mechanics of that on the part of the Nazis.
The only commonality was that the Soviet POWs were often in the same camps as Jewish concentration camps, except that they were always segregated competely. They were kept in different parts of the camp, separated by barbed wire.
1609 comes to mind.
Tucker is so committed in his opposition to war, especially the war in Ukraine which he believes has forced us to the very edge of nuclear destruction, that he falls victim to the human tendency to reshape history to fit and persuade others to his modern view.
“Cooper was discussing the plight of the Soviet POWs who got treatment even worse than the Jews, to the point there were accounts of concentration camp Jewish inmates who took pity on the Russians.”
?????? Say what? Jewish babies, children, women, and men filled ditches of overrun towns and the crematoria of death camps. And they were being killed even in the first waves of the Wehrmacht’s advances.