Nazi's, Serbs, and Syrians..Part 1

The comparisons in three totally separate wars, three different times, and three different geographies are very noticeable, and one I have only just really thought about..

They say history is written by the victors, and this is overwhelmingly the case.

When I grew up, the teaching of history I learned was - 'Germany and Hitler bad, the Allies good'
'The southern states bad, Lincoln and the northern states good '...you get the point.
As you grow up - and in the age of the internet- you find out more factual information, and you can paint a broader picture.
....And you find out that 'the facts' that you were taught at school are almost nothing like the reality.
It's only then that you realize.... the victors really do write the history.

example:
I thought that the Russian revolution was popular uprising and not a western bank funded experiment .
I thought Che Guevara was the people's hero, and not a violent psychopath.
I thought nearly all American's in the southern states owned slaves.
....and a million other myths...

I won't go into Syria, as most people know exactly how that is playing out. The interference from the west, the tactics being used, the propaganda etc...(and if you don't know, you really should).

Back to Serbia and Nazi's... (and Syria).

Yugoslavia...

The Yugoslavian wars were a series of ethnic conflicts, wars of independence and insurgencies fought from 1991 to 1999/2001 in the former Yugoslavia.
wiki. (We will call wiki 'the victors version of event's in this context...)

That's the story. That's the narrative written by the victors.

Before I discuss Yugoslavia in more detail, Germany needs to be looked at first...

This is MY version of events leading up to WW2 - as I now see them.

Germany

WW2 in Europe resulted from a series of culminating events, from territorial reclamation (the Rhineland, the Versailles treaty, and WW1),to invasions by Germany of 'the Sudetenland' due to oppression of German peoples in Czechoslovakia (Over three million people!), a popular support of unification with Austria - the 'Anchluss', and finally with the invasion of Poland in response to 'ethnic cleansing' of the German peoples around the Danzig area seized off Germany after WW1.

The history books will tell you this...

'Hitler took the Rhineland, breaking the treaty of Versailles, invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia, and then invaded Poland- at which point the allies declared war on Germany...

A simple, clean explanation of how evil the Nazi's were, and how virtuous the Allies were, in rushing to declare war on Germany for the invasion Poland
(..and paradoxically, neither Great Britain, or France - lifted a finger to help Poland after declaring war..)

Many of the events leading up to WW2 were not the simplistic turn of events that the history books described.

Looking now at how events occur , and how often- if not always- they are guided by the Machiavellian hidden hands of governments, I see no reason why the events occurring in Czechoslovakia and Poland were not the orchestrations of the power brokers looking to create circumstances in order to achieve a desired result...German aggression.
...That German aggression was to stop the persecution of it's own people was the spark that ignited Europe...
.. remember that from the end of WW1 (1918), to the beginning of WW2 (1939), it was only 20 years apart!

The war never really ended , it just took a breather..

The desired result of the manipulation- the German aggression - was another war in Europe.

I would argue the whole intention of WW2 was to create two superstates.
We knew them after the war as the European Union, and the Eastern bloc. And Nato providing the excuse for US military to stay in Europe, to maintain the balance of the two superstate system.

I used to think government decided the destiny of nations. Now I know better.

The bank's are the engines, and the gasoline - but never the victims - of wars and conflict.....

The banks role in all the wars in recent a history is a story that the teachers and the books never tell you about..

Now let's take a look at the war in Yugoslavia - with a much more cynical eye....