Why not stop candycoating WWII?
Why not stop calling its just Germany's, and especially Hitler's, aberration?
Why not stop forgetting about the ethnic and racial orientations of Hitler's allies, throughout both East and West Europe; and stop forgetting about the ethnic origins of Hitler's, and his allies', Slavic civilizational enemies to the East.
Why not think about Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, and ask ourselves why they were so universally hated, not only by Hitler and Germans, but also hated by his non slavic East European allies, Austria (annexed), Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, etc.
Although Hungary and Romania hated each other, they both hated the Slavs, and of course the Muslims, more, Serbians, Ruthenians, Balkan Muslims, etc, etc..
He had deadly enemies in the West, especially Britain, but considered Scandinavians kin, and Italians entitled to a place in the sun.
He and his non Slavic allies hated and exterminated Jews, but his main target for extermination in his lifetime were enormous numbers of Slavic Civilization peoples, numbers which truly dwarfed the tiny minority of Jews in Europe and Eurasia.
If you look just a little behind the thin liberal versus autocracy veneer that has been thrown over this whole period, that is what jumps out at you again and again on closer scrutiny.
One has only to thumb through Gerhard Weinberg, The World At Arms, to see this issue and motivation jump out repeatedly amid the kaleidoscopic transformations of diplomatic and political manoeuvring, both leading up to the war, and then during it.
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