Remembering World War II

National Review ^ | May 13, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson

[mal]

As the world commemorated the 60th anniversary of the end of the European Theater of World War II, revisionism was the norm. In the last few years, new books and articles have argued for a complete rethinking of the war. The only consistent theme in this various second-guessing was a diminution of the American contribution and suspicion of our very motives.

Indeed, most recent op-eds commemorating V-E day either blamed the United States for Hamburg or for the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, or for our supposed failure to credit the Russians for their sacrifices.

It is true that the Russians paid a horrendous price. Perhaps two out of every three soldiers of the Wehrmacht fell on the Eastern Front. We in the West must always remember that such a tragic sacrifice allowed Hitler to be defeated with far less American British, Canadian, and Australian dead.

[Nathan Zachary]

And then the soviets went on to kill a hundred million more...

[tx_eggman]

Instead, the beneficiaries of those who sacrificed now ankle-bite their dead betters. Even more strangely, they have somehow convinced us that in their politically-correct hindsight, they could have done much better in World War II.

Yet from every indication of their own behavior over the last 30 years, we suspect that the generation who came of age in the 1960s would have not just have done far worse but failed entirely.

That's gonna leave a mark.

[Tolik]

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[bitt]

thanks bump.

[neverdem]

Here's Gunter Grass' whine, "The Gravest Generation ", from the NY Times. barf alert

[nosofar]

Even more strangely, they have somehow convinced us that in their politically-correct hindsight, they could have done much better in World War II.

They probably could have...if the goal was to lose.

[ken21]

"...most Americans never learned the standard narrative of War II — only what was wrong about it."

amen.

thanks to chomsky, zinn, et al....

[NZerFromHK]

Gunter Grass is a typical German intellectual of the post-WWII period. Most US Democrats would be to the right of him. Surprised he wrote this? Not me.

[kellynla]

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Kelly

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