Perspective: Allied leaders were anti-Nazi, but not anti-racist. We’re now paying the price for their failure.
The 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville included Nazi flags. By John Broich John Broich teaches WWII and British Empire history at Case Western Reserve University and is the author of the forthcoming"Blood, Oil, and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941." April 29 at 6:00 AM The alarming rise of white-power violence, from Charlottesville to Pittsburgh and now to Poway, Calif.
Historians know that everything that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi inner circle did was predicated on a belief that Germanic people would inherit the Earth, that people at the bottom of an imagined race hierarchy should be expunged and that competition between nations, supposedly ordained by nature, justified anything the “master-race nation” and her allies might do. Democracy, in the fevered Nazi mind, blunted the force of “the survival of the fittest,” giving power and voice to the “undesirables.
Instead of fighting to crush the idea that purified nations could abuse, enslave or even eliminate people deemed lesser, Roosevelt used words similar to Churchill’s to frame the war as a resistance against “the forces of savagery and of barbarism.” Indeed, in the later war years, when Roosevelt tried at least to frame the war as a struggle for human rights around the globe, the White House’s propaganda office discovered that the message fell flat.
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