For argument's sake- lets say you found yourself having dinner with the world's foremost WWII historian- what would you ask them?

LuckyDuck · 2025-10-15T18:43:24-0400

Kind of a silly question but one I've been thinking of lately. I'm a history nerd by all measures and the subjects question stirs all kind of thoughts in my own head.

As an example- I'm quite interested in the missing artwork stories & how they traveled by rails. Irreplaceable things such as the amber room that just disappeared in the chaos of war and haven't been seen since.

Or the fascination the Nazi's had with the occult and the obscene resources they were willing to commit to finding legendary artifacts such as the 'holy grail'. Almost 100 years worth of history & questions now but the one question I think I'd ask given the scenario of sitting next to the worlds most knowledgeable WWII historian-

I think it'd be why in the world would Nazi Germany attack the Soviet Union and create a two front war when they had a nonaggression agreement? I don't think I've ever seen a clear answer to that particular question.

Was it arrogance? Maybe.. but say what you will about the Nazi's- I think we can all agree they weren't "dumb" and didn't wander into a two front war.

If that's an accurate statement- then the question remains- why? I've thought a lot about this & the best/most logical explanation I can come up with is Germany caught wind that the Soviet Union was going to violate their nonaggression pact and decided to act first & hope to be graced with the tactical advantage given with the element of surprise.

Your thoughts?

-LD

Maser · 2025-10-15T18:52:50-0400

You are aware that the Nazis were Socialists that HATED Communism right? The Soviets were Communists. Also, I love how you preface your thread with "kind of a silly question". Not like that ever stopped you before!

Anyways, I guess the only question I'd ask is how the Truman administration was able to be so easily fooled by the Jews into creating the state of Israel. The holocaust didn't happen. The Jews weren't genocided, they were expelled. This was all knowledge at the time, so it aint something new that was just discovered. I'm not the biggest Harry Truman fan, but he's one of the very few Democrat Presidents I have respect for. So it's just disappointing looking back in hindsight that the problems we have with Israel nowadays never would've happened if Israel was never declared a state.

Milf Dots · 2025-10-15T19:12:50-0400

Hitler and the Nazis were definitely Socialists, but Hitler pretended to be a Communist for a while until he could get his Nazi party started. Socialists, Fascists, and Communists are all left wing radicals who have many similar views. Let us not forget the street opinion is that Hitler and Mussolini are the the two most well known Fascists.

Amongst Americans, and especially us Conservatives and Christians, we know the objective facts are that the Holocaust did happen, and we know that the lands of Israel are historically the land of the Jewish people.

I'm not part of the tiny but vocal fringe who hate Jews and Law Enforcement.

LuckyDuck · 2025-10-15T19:13:27-0400

Maser said:
You are aware that the Nazis were Socialists that HATED Communism right? The Soviets were Communists. Also, I love how you preface your thread with "kind of a silly question". Not like that ever stopped you before!

Anyways, I guess the only question I'd ask is how the Truman administration was able to be so easily fooled by the Jews into creating the state of Israel. The holocaust didn't happen. The Jews weren't genocided, they were expelled. This was all knowledge at the time, so it aint something new that was just discovered. I'm not the biggest Harry Truman fan, but he's one of the very few Democrat Presidents I have respect for. So it's just disappointing looking back in hindsight that the problems we have with Israel nowadays never would've happened if Israel was never declared a state.

I mean it's a valid question-

Marxism was better suited towards Germany than (at the time) Russia given the propulation percentage of the "working class". Then you had the Bolshevik rebellion and Germany was trying to create their own "version" while at the same time superheating themselves from the Bolsheviks.

Germany did some wild things at that time- first and foremost was creating a "German" identity which didn't really exist at the time. There were "Germanic" people sharing similar language but this was an area long entrenched with tribal culture outside of this. You had your Prussian groups & Bavarian groups and they all saw themselves as being uniquely separate.

Fast forward- you have a... "movement" trying to unify a group of people and you find pseudo science being presented to support this Arian race theory. It's freaking wild the more you dig into this.

But the question remains- why the hell would Germany create a two front war?

Badjujuu · 2025-10-15T19:13:44-0400

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LuckyDuck · 2025-10-15T19:17:45-0400

Milf Dots said:
Hitler and the Nazis were definitely Socialists, but Hitler pretended to be a Communist for a while until he could get his Nazi party started. Socialists, Fascists, and Communists are all left wing radicals who have many similar views. Let us not forget the street opinion is that Hitler and Mussolini are the the two most well known Fascists.

Amongst Americans, and especially us Conservatives and Christians, we know the objective facts are that the Holocaust did happen, and we know that the lands of Israel are historically the land of the Jewish people.

I'm not part of the tiny but vocal fringe who hate Jews and Law Enforcement.

On the topic of Jews-

I was watching a documentary or two today about the mindset that predated Nazi Germany. One of the remarks that struck with me was there was a "blood in the soil" movement & Jews had previously been prohibited from owning land.

The argument/point that was raised was due to this Jewish prohibition of land ownership 80% of the businesses in the cities were Jewish owned. Then you have characters such as Himler that detested city life (with the Jewish population representing 80% of business ownership) & wanting to go back to a more traditional (again "blood in the soil" movement).

It's wild stuff.

Milf Dots · 2025-10-15T19:22:33-0400

I forgot to mention that yes, Hitler saw that Stalin was going to violate their "alliance" and Hitler reacted rather foolishly. But make no mistake- Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Che, ALL Leftist leaders were and are evil.

theLBC · 2025-10-15T19:24:34-0400

i would ask why nobody that talks about the countless innocents that were slaughtered in jewish pogroms in poland, the ukraine and other places, for decades before the nazis rose to power.

LuckyDuck · 2025-10-15T19:27:05-0400

theLBC said:
i would ask why nobody that talks about the countless innocents that were slaughtered in jewish pogroms in poland, the ukraine and other places, for decades before the nazis rose to power.

Sorry- is there a question in your post?

Maser · 2025-10-15T19:28:03-0400

On the subject of whether Nazis were Left or Right wing, this vid was very well done.

LuckyDuck · 2025-10-15T19:30:49-0400

Milf Dots said:
I forgot to mention that yes, Hitler saw that Stalin was going to violate their "alliance" and Hitler reacted rather foolishly. But make no mistake- Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Che, ALL Leftist leaders were and are evil.

Not disagreeing with you but the question remains- why the hell would Nazi Germany attack the Soviet Union creating a 2 front war when they had a (for all intents & purposes) treaty to not fight each other previously established?

I often hear it's due to arrogance but I don't know if I personally buy into that theory- I think the more likely explanation is that Germany believed the Soviet Union was going to violate the nonaggression pact & decided to act first (although I haven't seen anything official supporting that narrative either).

But that's the only scenario that makes sense to me personally.

-LD

theLBC · 2025-10-15T19:33:49-0400

LuckyDuck said:
On the topic of Jews-

I was watching a documentary or two today about the mindset that predated Nazi Germany. One of the remarks that struck with me was there was a "blood in the soil" movement & Jews had previously been prohibited from owning land.

The argument/point that was raised was due to this Jewish prohibition of land ownership 80% of the businesses in the cities were Jewish owned. Then you have characters such as Himler that detested city life (with the Jewish population representing 80% of business ownership) & wanting to go back to a more traditional (again "blood in the soil" movement).

It's wild stuff.

thomas sowell talks about the resentment of "middlemen minorites", like jewish shop owners, because of the (wrong) perception that because they simply sold things they did not make for a profit, this was somehow bad. he also points out that other middlemen minorities have suffered similarly throughout history (like the armenians). i read the book but was glad to find this.

theLBC · 2025-10-15T19:37:21-0400

LuckyDuck said:
Sorry- is there a question in your post?

that is the question.
we all know the nazis slaughtered jewish people, but it seems like the perception is that the germans were alone in this.
why is that?

LuckyDuck · 2025-10-15T19:46:52-0400

theLBC said:
that is the question.
we all know the nazis slaughtered jewish people, but it seems like the perception is that the germans were alone in this.
why is that?

I gotcha now- appreciate the clarification.

LuckyDuck · 2025-10-15T19:55:41-0400

I think we can all agree that the story is written by the "victors" for all of history. I just can't help but think that we've only been taught a particular side of the story & some of the particulars don't add up to objective review/scrutiny.

Milf Dots · 2025-10-15T20:33:22-0400

BLEE · 2025-10-15T20:43:59-0400

Maser said:
You are aware that the Nazis were Socialists that HATED Communism right? The Soviets were Communists. Also, I love how you preface your thread with "kind of a silly question". Not like that ever stopped you before!

Anyways, I guess the only question I'd ask is how the Truman administration was able to be so easily fooled by the Jews into creating the state of Israel. The holocaust didn't happen. The Jews weren't genocided, they were expelled. This was all knowledge at the time, so it aint something new that was just discovered. I'm not the biggest Harry Truman fan, but he's one of the very few Democrat Presidents I have respect for. So it's just disappointing looking back in hindsight that the problems we have with Israel nowadays never would've happened if Israel was never declared a state.

Maser, you have chosen to believe what you desire and you are absolutely, 100%, wrong about the Jews not being "genocided". My grandfather was US Army in Germany during WWII and told me a story of liberating a camp. He spoke of it, to me, only once, in my 43 years, before he died, because it was so horrific. I assure you, he was an absolutely reliable source and I assure you, you are wrong.

sloporsche · 2025-10-15T20:56:23-0400

I would ask ......yamamoto ! why such accolades, it seems most people he picked for command of his operations were screw ups

Ronws · 2025-10-15T21:07:18-0400

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767917189/?bestFormat=true&k=liberal%20fascism&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-pd-bk-d_k0_1_10_de&crid=2KPEQ6SCAC0O9&sprefix=liberal%20fa

"Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to Politics of Change." by Jonah Goldberg

I read it several years ago and found to be quite on point in many places.

Nik S · 2025-10-15T21:10:33-0400

His series does a good job of relating the German perspective in WW2, this specifically on, why did they invade the Soviet Union.

Makinchips208 · 2025-10-15T21:12:08-0400

I would say “please pass the grey poupon.”

And who is the foremost ww2 historian anyways?

theLBC · 2025-10-15T21:30:15-0400

Makinchips208 said:
I would say “please pass the grey poupon.”

And who is the foremost ww2 historian anyways?

probably ambrose, but we can't ask him anything.

diverdon · 2025-10-15T23:09:30-0400

I would ask them how they feel every time they have to alter historical facts to make history education suit the agenda of political elites.

Maggot · 2025-10-15T23:16:52-0400

Whey I'd ask @sirhrmechanic all sorts of stuff.

Maggot · 2025-10-15T23:26:56-0400

Or, "Why didn't Superman kill Hitler and save the world?"

MrSmith · 2025-10-16T00:23:15-0400

Who's paying for dinner?

Thank you,
MrSmith

Eostech · 2025-10-16T01:52:27-0400

LuckyDuck said:
I think it'd be why in the world would Nazi Germany attack the Soviet Union and create a two front war when they had a nonaggression agreement? I don't think I've ever seen a clear answer to that particular question.

It's simple as fuck, Hitler always viewed the conflict as an existential war between Europeans (Germany) and Slavs.

Germany attacked France first precisely because they couldn't win a two front war and then moved onto the real meat and potatoes, exterminating slavs as a people and removing them from Europe.

And no, it wasn't really a two front war when Barbarossa started. If you really want to understand the scale at which the Germans fucked up, look at who they appointed as head of intelligence for the war against Russia, his sources were basically just "trust me bro", which meant Operation Barbarossa (the destruction of the Red Army) was fucked from the start.

For argument's sake- lets say you found yourself having dinner with the world's foremost WWII historian- what would you ask them?

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