[lbo-talk] Greeley: US = Germany 1933?

Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org
Sun Jun 13 08:10:34 PDT 2004


On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 01:22 AM, Shane Mage wrote:


> Indeed, the whole US-British strategy in World War II--exemplified
> by the Unconditional Surrender doctrine, the unrelenting terror bombing
> of the German proletariat, the refusal even to consider Nazi offers
> to transfer the whole Jewish population out of Europe--was premised
> on the absolute need to keep Hitler in power until he could be
> replaced by an Allied Occupation Army. Only thus could the Allies
> be secure against their worst nightmare--a resurgence of the
> European proletarian revolution of 1917-1919.

Oh. So, if Roosevelt and Churchill had agreed to the very humane Nazi offer to ship all the Jews out of Europe -- to Madagascar? -- everything would have been hunky-dory?

The Allies had to work hard to keep Hitler going until they could put their army in place? That was the whole point of WW II?

This is certainly a very interesting alternative history of the war. (Rather anti-Semitic in flavor, but ...) Might I inquire if you have any actual evidence for all of this?

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A gentleman haranguing on the perfection of our law, and that it was equally open to the poor and the rich, was answered by another, 'So is the London Tavern.' -- "Tom Paine's Jests..." (1794); also attr. to John Horne Tooke (1736-1812) by Hazlitt



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