Brendan Simms, professor of history, University of Cambridge.
Note that Simms’ volume—the hard copy in the hardcover edition I own is over 900 pages long—is replete with endnotes, so every biographical claim about Adolf Hitler’s intellectual odyssey that we see in this volume is backed up by primary sources. Although in years past I have browsed through other voluminous biographies of Hitler that have been selling in mainstream bookstores, I didn’t buy them because I wasn’t motivated by the POV of the biographer in question (e.g., Ian Kershaw’s volumes). The revisionism of another normie on the other hand, Simms, really caught my attention. Let’s continue quoting what Simms wrote in chapter 3 of Hitler: Only the World Was Enough.
Hitler put the inquest into the defeat at the heart of his world view. The alleged fractures in German society played an important role here, the ‘inner internationalism’ to which he had referred during the war itself. By this Hitler primarily meant the Social Democrats and Independent Socialists (USPD), who allegedly put loyalty to their class comrades over that to the nation; it was their internationalism, not their socialism, that he objected to. It was the same anxiety as over capitalism, which Hitler rejected in its global, but, as we shall see, not necessarily in its local ‘national’ form. He also took aim at German particularism, especially in Bavaria, which threatened the integrity of the Reich.
The principal internal enemy, however, was the Jews, who had ‘stabbed Germany in the back’, although Hitler rarely used this precise phrase. All this has given the impression that Hitler, like so many other Germans, sought to blame the defeat primarily on internal scapegoats rather than facing up to the strength of the Entente. In fact, Hitler never subscribed to a monocausal [bold & red added by Ed.!] domestic explanation for the disaster and much of his thinking, especially the later quest for Lebensraum, would be inexplicable if he had. Eliminating the Jews and healing the domestic rifts inside Germany were necessary conditions for the revival of the Reich, but not sufficient ones.
I bolded the above because I was unaware that a renowned historian had used the word I have used on this site in my dispute with white nationalists, whom I have branded as ‘monocausalists’ in the sense that they have refused to see other factors, besides Jewish subversion, that have been contributing to Aryan decline. Now it turns out that an academic, Simms, says the same thing I say about Hitler even though his POV is altogether different.
The point is to find out whether Simms is right about Hitler. And if he is, one can use his information simply from the POV of the 14 words.
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I’m surprised that Hitler was initially so enthusiastic about the breakout of hostilities in 1914. It was the last year that the white race had total intellectual, economic, and military supremacy over the entire world. We threw it all away, and to this day, nobody seems entirely sure why. It’s disappointing to learn that Hitler only recognised the folly of the war in hindsight. I would have expected him to see it from the beginning as the watershed moment it was.
Why?
Because under judeo christian teachings, it was wrong to have supremacy of this world over the inferior races, and that was relatively ignored (more or less… if you add the fact that in several colonies they didn’t exterminate the aboriginals) until Hitler openly revolted.
Then the system realized that they couldn’t keep their supremacy and morals at the same time without expecting more paradigm changers like him coming in the future, so they had to completely transvaluate their values into a totally self destructive course.
They were terrified to death that he almost succeeded! And they are still scared that another Hitler could be born and finally destroy them.
So they, the system, hopes to prevent that by herding Aryans into extinction.
Isn’t that stupid? Totally! But they didn’t barely win the war with Hitler out of their quality, but by the sheer dead weight of stupid Christians still worshiping the god of the jews.