Recently I received a series of documentaries from the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The Museum of Tolerance was inspired by the work of Simon Wiesenthal, himself a survivor of Nazi death camps whose life work became bringing the Nazi murderers to justice.
I watched with my mother, herself a Hungarian survivor of the Budapest Arrow Cross/Nazi onslaught in Hungary.
Also I happened to catch a Youtube video of Yehuda Bauer speaking about how and why the Second World War was launched.
Yehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar.
He points out how the ideology of anti-semitism and genocide, as conceptualized by the Nazi ideologues, was the real driver for the Second World War.
And how this ideology was totally non-pragmatic, totally destructive to the Germans, the Poles, the English, the French and many other groups including Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals and all Nazi opponents.
He frames the question this way. Who wanted this war and why? The answers are astounding and yet ring true and answer many questions.
Prof. Yehuda Bauer - Why Did World War II Break Out?Who Wanted the Second World War?
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