Hitler won his war having left Nazi roots in the West

Whereas the US had defeated Japan almost singlehandedly in the Second World War, the victory over Germany, in which it mainly participated as a purveyor of weaponry and a destroyer of cities and art treasures, was much more significant from any point of view. Germany, technologically by far the most advanced country in the world was, of course, the real enemy. Its defeat meant at the same time the definitive elimination of Europe as a major actor on the world stage. This is why the US propaganda industry has made such an effort to present the victory over Germany as an accomplishment of the US, though admittedly with some help from their British friends. The logical concomitant of this falsification of history was to present the war in Europe as a struggle between absolute evil and absolute good. Hence also the insistence on the differences between the US and Nazi Germany.

As for the true reasons why the US waged war against the Nazis, these had more to do with imperial designs than anything else. Here was a splendid chance for securing the long-awaited dominance of Europe. It was only the Soviet Union that prevented the spread of US rule over the entire continent, at least until its own dissolution in 1991.

But once Germany had been defeated, how was the US to rule the world? From where should it get inspiration, ideas and technology?

Since 1898, the US had acquired considerable expertise in colonial rule through the administration of its own colonies (Puerto Rico and the Philippines), protectorates (Cuba and Nicaragua) and the bullying of assorted small Caribbean and Latin American states. However, it had no experience whatsoever ruling highly developed European states. It could only militarily occupy two of them, namely Germany and Austria, but in order to keep dominating the others, the countries until recently occupied by the Nazis, a different approach was needed.

Under the circumstances, to look for guidance at the German occupation of Europe was not such a bad idea. After all, Nazi rule in occupied Europe, though it occasionally met with stiff resistance, was by no means entirely impopular. Millions of Europeans enthusiastically supported the persecution, deportation and annihilation of the Jews, hundreds of thousands of Europeans joined the SS and fought the Red Army.

In its early phase, the Nazi occupation of Europe was sustained mainly by psychological factors. Dazzled by the shock and awe of the Nazi armed forces, most Europeans were too disoriented to even think of resistance and tended to accept the occupation of their countries. The Nazis had considerable success in acquiring a base of popular support by focusing public fears and anger on the Bolsheviks, since many Europeans resented the Nazis, but feared the communists even more.

After 1945, the US continued the Nazi propaganda campaign against communism and thus started the Cold War against the Soviet Union. While spreading the most outlandish and outrageous lies about the Soviet Union, the US began cajoling, pressuring and blackmailing European politicians. Presenting the Marshall Plan as a unique humanitarian program US propagandists, taking their cues from the Nazi propaganda minsiter Josef Goebbels, began to flood the continent with a incessant avalanche of disinformation that has not stopped since.

If Nazi ideas and political practice inspired the US, so did Nazi technology. Almost every post-war US weapons system has been inspired by Nazi examples or prototypes, ranging from anti-aircraft guided missiles, through flying saucers to stealth technology. Even the much-vaunted US exploit of sending a man to the moon would have been unthinkable without Nazi rocket technology.

To first defeat an enemy who has been consistently depicted as absolute evil and to subsequently use this very same enemy as a source of inspiration obviously gives rise to considerable psychological problems. The inspiration has been so strong that today the US in so many respect resembles its enemy of yore.

Hence the web, or rather the thick carpet of lies the US has been weaving with respect to World War II and the Nazis.

If tomorrow Hitler would rise from the grave and look at the world, he would be a happy man, but also a confused man. He would look at the US and see a country that had adopted so many facets of Nazi Germany. Why then, he would wonder, had the US fought his Nazi Germany? He would think he had won the war after all.

I am afraid Hitler would be right. He has indeed won the war.

In 2001 just after the destruction of the WTC towers in New York, Jean-Marie Colombani, editor-in-chief of the prestigious French newspaper Le Monde wrote in an editorial “we are all Americans.”

I am afraid, we in “the West” have all become Nazis now.