The historian David Irving gets a tremendous amount of stick for being “anti-Semitic” and a “Holocaust Denier”. I leave it to the reader to decide whether those allegations are fair or not – if you read what Ron Unz had to say about his trials in Britain and Austria, you will come away with the distinct impression that the (((globalist))) forces who hate sovereignty and freedom, really had it in for him.
What is incontrovertible, however, is that his skills as a historian are exceptional.
He wrote some of the most radical and brilliant revisionist works on the subject of the origins and conduct of the Second World War, in which he blamed Churchill, and his almost irrational hatred of Hitler, for expanding what was otherwise a continental war to reclaim ancestral German lands, into a global conflagration that killed tens of millions. Back when Irving wrote these things, it was near-heretical to say anything of the sort. Today, though, with the emergence of other revisionist histories, such as Pat Buchanan’s book, Churchill, Hitler, and the “Unnecessary War”, that view is becoming increasingly mainstream, and with very good reason.
I personally am not nearly so convinced of the view that Hitler’s war was “unnecessary”, but I am of course no historian. What is clear, is that Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, was certainly at his instigation – not at Stalin’s, as one Viktor Suvorov (real name Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun, former Soviet military intelligence officer who defected to the Limeys), tried to argue in his remarkable (but deeply flawed) tome, Icebreaker.
Regardless of the causes of the war, though, the consequences were very clear. And 81 years ago today, as a direct result of the globe-spanning war that was the product of those consequences, thousands of young men – boys, really, most of them barely old enough to shave properly – landed at Normandy Beach, to finally open the western front up to an Allied advance.
It is important to understand the context behind the invasion at Normandy. For more than two years, the Soviet leader (dictator, really), Josef Stalin, had been begging his counterparts in Britain and America to open up a second front, thereby relieving some of the tremendous pressure on the Soviet heartland. But, by roughly the middle of 1943, the Soviet victory at Stalingrad (at staggering cost), and the even more consequential Battle of Kursk, the Soviets had begun to turn the tide. Following that, the Soviets launched Operation: BAGRATION in the summer of 1944, aiming to roll the German armies back and sweep across Europe.
Personally, I think there is a good argument to make, that the Allies stepped in with the Normandy invasion, because they realised very quickly that, if left alone, the Soviets would simply roll across all of continental Europe – right up to the Straits of Gibraltar, if they had to do so. And that was not tolerable – not to Churchill, and not to much of the American high command.
But, eventually, the Allies agreed on the need to open up a new front against a clearly beleaguered and struggling Nazi Germany, and they settled on Operation: OVERLORD as the right way to do it.
And so, as a result of many months of careful planning and intensive preparations, over a MILLION men prepared to land early on an ugly morning in June, on the beaches of Normandy. “Only” about 150,000 of them landed in the first wave on June 06, as part of Operation: NEPTUNE, with hundreds of thousands more landing over the coming days, after the initial landing force secured the beachhead.
The men who landed that morning did not know if they would see the evening. Over 4,000 of them did not – serious casualties for the British, Americans, Canadians, Australians, and others who landed that day, but barely relevant by the standards of the meatgrinders of the Eastern Front.
The men who boarded those landing ships that day – terrified, praying to God to get them through the horrors of war, begging silently for mercy and grace – did so because they were ordered to do it. Many of them were there as conscripts, drafted into the war as just more cogs for the vast war machine. But, fundamentally, they all shared, at some level, the view that what they were doing was right, just, and above all, necessary.
They believed, even if only marginally at the individual level, that they were fighting for the defence of their homelands, their families, and their way of life, from an evil so pervasive and so dangerous, that it could not be allowed to exist.
And this is where David Irving comes in again.
There is a quote attributed to him – I do not know if it is accurate, but I assume it is – that goes something like this:
If the British soldiers in Normandy who went to the beaches in 1944 could see what happened today, they would not have gone 40 yards up the beach.
Assuming he said that, he was right.
All you have to do, is to visit PommieBastardLande, to realise the truth in what he (apparently) said. London and Birmingham, the two largest cities in the country, are no longer British – they have not been for at least 10 years. I can personally attest to the fact that London feels NOTHING like an English city – I lived there for several years as a student, and I have visited it many times since then. Believe me when I tell you that LARGE parts of London feel like somewhat more civilised and slightly cleaner versions of Calcutta, or Nairobi, or Riyadh.
Worse, we now have a report telling us that White Britons will be a minority in their own country within the next 40 years, and by 2100, they will account for barely a third of the population of Britain.
Is this what the Greatest Generation fought and died for?
It is not just Britain that suffers from this problem. France is basically lost. Germany has allowed itself to be hollowed out and turned into an American vassal for 80 years, out of a deep sense of shame and guilt for what the Nazi forebears of the current generation of Germans did to everyone else.
As for America itself – that is a country in the midst of a deep existential crisis, and all the indications are that it will not survive. The reckoning coming for the USA is beyond anything any of us can imagine. No one has ever lived through the collapse that is coming for Amerikhastan.
No one, that is – except for the Russians.
They know what America will go through, because they lived through it themselves, albeit on a lesser scale relative to what the FUSA will experience. They saw the loss of their empire, the near-total destruction of their nation, and the collapse of their national self-identity. But they recovered, because they are, at their core, a nation that remembers and honours its ancestors.
We in the West have not done the same. We failed those who fought and bled and died for us, so that we could live.
Our failure to guard the inheritance and the posterity that the Greatest Generation left for us, is a dreadful crime, for which we must be held accountable. We refused to hold fast to the things that our ancestors sacrificed so much to preserve – and we deserve nothing less than ruination for it.
If nothing else, we owe it to those same ancestors to remember what they did on D-Day. More than that, we should use it as an inspiration, to remind ourselves that there ARE things worth fighting for, worth killing for, and worth dying for.
The boys who stormed the beaches on D-Day knew that, at some level. They believed in something. But if they could see us today, who believe in nothing… would they have been so eager to bleed and die in the cold salty surf of Normandy?
To ask the question is to answer it. Which is why, in my own small way, and even though I have NO personal connection to any of those men who landed on D-Day, I try to remember what they did – and why they did it.
HAIL the victorious dead!!!
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Truly I tell you, had the Allies in the European Theater been able to see what would become of their countries, at least 90% of them would have gone over to the Nazis.