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A defective look at World War II.

Publication: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A defective look at World War II.(The New Revisionism Forum)(Letter to the editor)

Article Excerpt
By Mark Weber, Institute for Historical Review

In a key paragraph of his article on "The New Revisionism," in SKEPTIC Vol. 14, No.3, Michael Shermer writes that killings of innocents by the Allies in World War II "stopped the moment the Allies won," that the Allies "killed in order to stop the killing by the Axis, and for no other reason," and that killings by the Axis "would have gone on and on and on were it not for the Allies." Let's take these points in order.

In fact, killings and oppression by the Allies continued after the end of the war. In a 618-page book published last year, After the Reich: The Brutal History of Allied Occupation, British historian Giles MacDonogh details how some 2.25 million Germans, military and civilians, died unnecessarily after the formal end of hostilities.

Perhaps the most shocking outrage he recounts is the slaughter of...

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