As the title of this book— The Myth of German Villainy—indicates, this tome is about the mischaracterization of Germany as history’s ultimate “villain.”
The official story of Western civilization’s 20th-century Court Historians casts Germany as the evil disturber of the peace in Europe, and the cause of both World War I and World War II, though the facts don’t bear that out. During both wars, fantastic atrocity stories were invented by Allied propagandists to create hatred of the German people for the purpose of bringing public opinion around to support the wars.
The Holocaust propaganda that emerged after World War II further solidified this image of Germany as “history’s ultimate villain.” But how true is this “official” story? Was Germany history’s most “evil” nation? Did Germans really commit the atrocities of which they have repeatedly been accused over and again?
Who were the world’s real perpetrators of villainy in Europe, and how easily can the claims against Germany be proven false? In this book, historian Benton L. Bradberry paints a different picture. He explains that Germany was not the perpetrator of World War I or World War II, but was, instead, the victim of Allied aggression in both wars.
The instability wrought by World War I made the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia possible, which actually brought the scourge of world communism into existence. Adolf Hitler and Germany recognized world communism, with its base in the Soviet Union, as an existential threat to Western Christian civilization, and he dedicated himself and his nation to a death struggle against it.
Far from being the disturber of European peace, Germany served as a bulwark that prevented communist revolutions from sweeping across Europe. The pity was that the United States and Britain did not see communist Russia in the same light, ultimately with disastrous consequences for Western civilization. Obviously, the author believes that Britain and the United States joined the wrong side in the war.
Softcover, 444 pages, second edition with a foreword by the late TBR contributing editorial board member Thomas Goodrich, 171 B&W images, #647.
