Tag: Second World War

Edmond Réveil, the former French Resistance fighter who came forward with the story of the Meymac massacre.

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The Volksbund, the German war graves commission, went public in June about their upcoming Meymac project, and unlike most of their other projects, this one actually made international headlines. Even the New York Times ran an article entitled “The secret of Meymac, a village in search of the bodies of German soldiers executed in 1944.”

I don’t know if “executed” is the right word. To me it suggests some semblance of legality — of a trial in a judicial system. But maybe that’s just semantics. The fact is that those 47 German soldiers and one French woman were murdered by the Maquis, in what any handbook on the subject would clearly define as a war crime. (more…)

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Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

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If I could choose to be anyone from the twentieth century, I would not hesitate for a moment to pick Ernst Jünger. (more…)

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Host Greg Johnson was joined by video documentarian American Krogan on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to discuss his new documentary, Call of Duty: Vanguard — Inclusive Revisionism (see below), plus current events and YOUR QUESTIONS, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

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If I could choose to be anyone from the twentieth century, I would not hesitate for a moment to pick Ernst Jünger. (more…)

Guy Mouminoux

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Guy Mouminoux, who died on January 11, 2022, is remembered for his only novel, the autobiographical war story The Forgotten Soldier (under the pseudonym of Guy Sajer) as well as for his humorous or historical comic strips (under the pseudonym of Dimitri).

Mouminoux was born in Paris on January 13, 1927. In 1916 his father, an infantryman who had been taken prisoner in Verdun, met his mother during his detention in Germany. Guy spent his youth in Alsace and was passionate about reading children’s comic books. (more…)

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Correlli Barnett
The Collapse of British Power
Frome & London: Butler & Tanner Ltd., 1972

Correlli Barnett is one of the rare British historians who views the Second World War as a disaster rather than in the usual flummery proclaiming that it was Britain’s “finest hour.” Barnett frames the scale of the calamity by illustrating Britain’s situation thusly: (more…)

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Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review was the guest on another exciting episode of The Writers’ Bloc, where he was joined by host Nick Jeelvy to discuss the Nuremberg Moral Paradigm and the importance of revisionist history, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

Sir Alan Burns at the height of his career.

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Bruce Gilley
The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns’ Epic Defense of the British Empire
Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2021 (more…)

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بروفيسور كارلتون كون

عرف كارلتون ستيفنز كون (1904-1981) كيفية استخدام قبضتيه. فعندما كان صبياً قام بضرب عين طفل آخر، كان من أوائل الكاثوليك الأيرلنديين الذين عاشوا في بلدته. وفي وقت لاحق، قام بطرد شخص ألباني من الشقة بينما كان يجري بحثاً أنثروبولوجياً في البلقان. وخلال الحرب العالمية الثانية، سارع بمساعدة ضابط فرنسي كان يهاجمه أحد سكان كورسيكا. في مناسبة أخرى ، قام بلكم رجل آخر بسبب تفسيراتهم المختلفة لحرب عام 1812. هذه الروح القتالية ساعدت كون أثناء مسيرته المهنية في مجال مثير للجدل للغاية: الدراسة الجسدية والثقافية الإنسانية. (more…)

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Then Stoddard describes the Hitler Youth and related organizations. Although there were some positive aspects to them, they also resulted in some regrettable family conflicts over politics stemming from friction with the churches, which didn’t want youths to be diverted into a secular organization. In that regard, making membership in the youth organizations compulsory was an overreach. (On the other hand, if we had an obligatory youth group like that today, then we wouldn’t have a wigger problem.) (more…)

Lothrop Stoddard

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What was life like during the Third Reich? An accurate picture is fairly difficult to arrive at, given the propaganda saturation persisting generations after the fact. Watching Hollywood movies won’t provide a balanced take, for obvious reasons. Neither will reruns of Hogan’s Heroes on late-night cable TV. War fever tends to fade as time goes on. Throughout the 1970s, I never heard anyone exhorting anyone to “Remember the Maine!” as if the Spanish-American War had ended yesterday, for example. (more…)

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Miklós Horthy
A Life for Hungary: Memoirs
London: Hutchinson, 1956

Thomas L. Sakmyster
Hungary’s Admiral on Horseback: Miklós Horthy, 1918-1944
Boulder: East European Monographs, 1994

Historians of the Second World War and the events leading up to that catastrophe understandably focus on the “big powers”: Japan, Germany, Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, and their leaders. (more…)