We owe our world war 2 veterans...a debt we can never fully repay -Doc Hastings

World War II was the Great War, fought by the greatest generation, in a pure battle of good versus evil. 405,399 young American men sacrificed their lives to stop Hitler's global terror and save the world from impending Naziism. They shouldn't have.





Every individual in the realm of societal reason would agree that all human life is equal. A Slovak is equal to a Serb, an Afghani to an Iraqi, and a Jew to a Russian.

Adolf Hitler systematically murdered eleven million people in the Holocaust, including six million Jewish people. If we are to assume that Hitler intended to completely wipe out the Jewish population in Europe, he would have killed another 3.5 million Jews. That brings Hitler's death toll to 14.5 million people. There is some reason to dispute this being that Hitler approved the Madagascar Plan, a plan to move a million Jews a year to Madagascar, but the plan had to be abandoned after the British took control of Madagascar from Vichy France. The second piece to analyze in Hitler's total possible death count was his desire for Lebensraum. Lebensraum meant living space and entailed the german population expanding beyond the borders of Germany for resources, space, and health of a population. He intended to expand into Russia, a significant reason for the fallout of the 1939 German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Most indicators suggest that Hitler wanted to relocate the Russians living in this future space. Some would undeniably die and some might have been enslaved. Being liberal, let's assume another five million Russians, Gypsies, handicapped, etc. would die in this relocation. Hitler's death count would be sitting at 19.5 million people.

Adolf Hitler's main purpose in World War II was also not to eradicate the Jewish people, although that was a secondary goal. In 1936 Hitler issued his Four Year Plan stating "the world has been accelerating towards a new conflict, which in its most extreme shape is named Bolshevism...whose nature...is to remove those levels of society that provide leadership to humanity...replacing them with international Jewry...faced with the need to fight off this threat, all other considerations must be placed in the background as totally without significance". Hitler existed to defeat communism.

Now let's take a look at the leader of our most useful ally in World War II, Joseph Stalin. While the estimates of Stalin's death count vary, with historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn claiming 60 million people died under Stalin, most historians put the number at around twenty million people. Robert Conquest, an American-English historian, estimates that Stalin killed twenty million people between 1930-1953. This number doesn't include anyone who was sent to gulags, state prisons, or who died of hunger after 1953. This also doesn't include the millions of people who suffered in harsh poverty under communism.

Mao Zedong took power in China in 1947 and was the most murderous dictator of the 20th century. According to The Washington Post, between 1958-1962 alone Mao killed 45 million people. His total death count sometimes reaches upwards of 70 million people. Since Hitler's number one priority was defeating communism, he could have stopped Mao's post WWII rise to power and saved tens of millions of lives.

This article is not to rewrite Hitler in a wonderful light, or to say that he was a great person. It is to plainly state the fact that Hitler killed 11 million people, and analyzing his intentions he theoretically might have killed 20 million people. Inversely, our main ally in WWII killed twenty million people in only 23 years, and the system of government that Hitler set out to defeat is responsible for up to 90 million deaths in the 20th century alone.

So, if one life is equal to one life, we were on the wrong side during WWII. Our true moral ally should have been Adolf Hitler.