What if?
Tucker Carlson and the Hitler Fanboy:
Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. Questions like: what if Andrew Tate’s camgirl harem is actually the height of masculinity? And: isn’t the Russian grocery equivalent of Aldi absolutely incredible, just as the Moscow train station is perhaps the most beautiful thing mankind has created? And this week: why don’t we fully appreciate the total bind Adolf Hitler was in when he had just so many prisoners of war thanks to German success on the battlefield?
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Carlson’s interview with Darryl Cooper, an amateur revisionist historian and podcaster, attempted to rewrite the history of World War Two with Winston Churchill cast as a malevolent villain and Adolf Hitler as a misunderstood man of peace:
“You know, Germany, look, they put themselves into a position in Adolf Hitler’s chiefly responsible for this, but his whole regime is responsible for it, that when they went into the east in 1941, they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners, and so forth that they were going to have to handle. They went in with no plan for that and they just threw these people into camps. And millions of people ended up dead there. You know, you have, you have like letters as early as July, August 1941 from commandants of these makeshift camps that they’re setting up for these millions of people who were surrendering or people they’re rounding up and they’re… so it’s two months after, a month or two after Barbarossa was launched, and they’re writing back to the high command in Berlin saying, “We can’t feed these people, we don’t have the food to feed these people.” And one of them actually says, “Rather than wait for them all to slowly starve this winter, wouldn’t it be more humane to just finish them off quickly now?”
Got it? It wasn’t a matter of war crimes, and it wasn’t genocide, it was just a big accident. They forgot to get enough groceries to feed all those people so they thought it would be kinder just to kill them all. With ZyklonB.
I’m assuming there’s a much longer stretch of the interview where he says purely objectionable rather than merely insensitive stuff, because to a certain extent everything in the quotation is true. The evil (and importantly here, fucking stupid) bastard and bastards wasted time and resources imprisoning and eventually murdering lots of their own citizens while at the same time overextending pretty much everywhere. This shit cost them the war; one of the few real life examples of karmic justice occurring.
Underprovisioned with food, but isn’t it lucky they accidentally overprovisioned with poison?
Both of them are following the necessary mantra of the radio or TV commentator and would-be commentator on his/her pilgrimage to the land where the big bucks lie: ‘Speak well of my name, speak ill of my name, but speak my name.’
It’s got Donald Trump (formerly Drumpf) to where he is today. The Drumpf to Trump transition clearly made the name more pronouncible to those wishing to speak well or ill of it. I suppose that’s the reason Hitler abandoned his birth name of Schiklgruber. ‘Heil Schiklgruber’ has somehow not got the right ring to it.either.
> I suppose that’s the reason Hitler abandoned his birth name of Schiklgruber.
It was Adolf Hitler’s father who changed the name from Schicklgruber, long before Adolf Hitler’s birth.
Things that ought to go without saying, but I guess not:
First, the people who were murdered in the camps by the Nazis were not prisoners of war. They were civilians, citizens of Germany, its allies, and conquered territories, the vast majority of whom were Jewish. The Nazis weren’t particularly nice to actual POWs, but they didn’t murder them wholesale.
Second, per The Washington Post, Tucker’s friend tweeted on Tuesday that Britain refused to “give back the parts of Poland that were not majority German, and [to] work with the other powers to reach an acceptable solution to the Jewish problem” (my bolding). There was no “Jewish problem” in Germany or Europe, any more than there is a “woman problem” in Afghanistan. In Germany there was a Nazi problem, and a broader anti-Semitic problem, just as in Afghanistan there is a Taliban problem, and a broader misogyny problem. The problem was the oppressors, not the victims.