WORLD WAR II --- AN ANALYSIS

It was a vast collection of crooks that spelled the doom of mankind but it must be understood that historical conditions and rooted barbarism in masses of people distributed throughout the so-called first world that did the deal. Forget not British barbarism during the War and through the centuries preceding. So with the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch. Last of all and the most horrendous destruction of innocence was sanctioned by Truman and the Americans outdid Germany, Italy and Japan in winning the premier spot in the primitive act. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are conveniently sidelined to lay the entire blame of brutality perpetrated during the World War II on Hitler and his Nazis alone. Churchill decimated Bengal in a savage act of man-made famine that sent into oblivion over 4 million Bengalees. The horror tale may continue but suffice unto the hour will be to say that Hitler carried barbarism to its extreme ends when he launched his programme to eliminate an entire human community who he in his conceited ignorance dubbed sub-human. The Holocaust was the ultimate in satanic activity and the death-camps closest to the scriptural depiction of Hell. However, my contention still remains that events are charted out as resolutions of countless earlier episodes, present possibilities, situational exigencies and the will of the individual who symbolises for good or for evil the common will of millions who are gullible enough to believe in him. Thus, dictators arise and carry out their course of malefic action to the horror of the world and, yet, such is human folly that men make the same error again and again in reposing faith in such demoniacal beings.

All things said and done, we must draw lessons from history and there is no better way to do so than to keep our minds impartial in judging past events and even personalities and regimes that have done untold damage to evolution and human progress, whose very deeds have sent the world to despair. Still, we must maintain sanity and not be content in dealing with our historical past in emotional irrational terms with scant understanding of the deeper issues that had impelled the world on to such cataclysmic episodes as the two World Wars. We must also remember that the victor ever writes the history of the world and never does he reveal all of his own misdeeds. The blame is laid on the vanquished in war and centuries pass before a semblance of the truth surfaces before an enlightened and dispassionate future citizenry who rewrite history to amend its heresies.