Does Evil Suffocate Itself?
Dear Friends,
It seems to me that Nazi Germany didn’t loose the war at the battle of Stalingrad or by not taking Moscow in 1941. They lost the war because their philosophy was evil.
When Army Group North invaded the former Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian Republics, (that had been recently usurped by Stalin), the people greeted the German troops as liberators. The subsequent horrors visited on them by the Schutzstaffel changed their opinion. Even with the excesses of the SS many Prussians so detested the Communists they joined the Nazis.
Had the Nazis not been so evil they would not have turned the people of the invaded republics against them. Germany could have freed the republics, returned the governments to the people, and enlisted their help in eradicating Communism. Instead Nazi Germany decided to murder all the Roma, Jews, and anyone else who appeared to be a potential threat. (Rivers of blood tend to alter public opinion).
Later when Romania signed a separate peace with the USSR Germany became jealous of her allies and fostered a coup in Hungary. The new government in Hungary was absolutely loyal to the Nazis. (Which would later bring ruin on Hungary).
The previous government had been protecting the Jews and other subject peoples from the Nazis. As a result there was a huge number of Jews and others that were to be exterminated. So while Army Group Center collapsed from lack of supplies. The trains needed were instead sent to Hungary to ferry Jews to the gas chambers.
The Nazis decided it was more important to get Jews to the Death Camps than to supply German soldiers with ammo… Our actions expose who we are.
The Nazis were evil. That is why they lost the war. It is in retrospect that we can see this fact. Does this mean that all evil will be defeated? Who knows. But I would say that evil has within itself, always, the seeds of it’s own destruction.
