"Western elites — the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism — are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all. ...........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."
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Victor Davis Hanson Reflects on World War II and Historical Revisionists
Victor Davis Hanson on World War II and historical revisionism.
Read the whole thing. He gets it dead right, as usual
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Very good and very true. Only one thing...I believe Gunter Grass was found to have "served" in the Waffen SS, not the Wehrmacht. I need to research that one.
You are correct. It was the Waffen SS that he served in.
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