Historian Michael Hoffman Confronts Hitler Worshipers with Hitler Reality – Then suggests: our advice is to search for data that undercuts your beliefs and if those beliefs remain intact after having consulted sophisticated contrarian views, you can proceed on course; otherwise you must re-vision. Those outside this process cannot be taken seriously. They are cheerleaders for a partisan side.

UPDATE: Hoffman has now written a book entirely on this subject:

Adolf Hitler: Enemy of the German People Paperback – September 1, 2019 by Michael Hoffman

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Thanks to Jim for this link!

I subscribe to Michael Hoffman’s publication Revisionist History, and have now read his article, “Hitler Never Had a Snowball’s Chance in Hell of Conquering Soviet Russia” in his latest edition #97  in which he strongly states that Hitler’s recklessness really was based on a delusional, mind-over-matter mindset which ended up destroying Germany, because there were no checks and balances.

In this post, Michael responds to comments from readers, conveying his perceptions, conclusions and suggestions. Thank you, Michael!
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From: revisionistreview.blogspot.com…
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Recent responses to our Hitler-Russia newsletter no. 97

… It’s too bad that for many people Nazism is a religion and Hitler the chief idol. They are afflicted with two unfortunate, self-sabotaging traits: 1. Little or no curiosity about historical discoveries that threaten their Nazi religion and 2. What psychologists term “confirmation bias” — reading only those sources which tend to confirm one’s preconceived ideas. With such people, whether they are true believers in the homicidal gas chambers of Auschwitz, or true believers in Adolf Hitler, they exhibit the same mentality; their minds are frozen. …

The revisionist vocation is a re-visioning of every human belief in the face of new information when it contradicts the old. Some of those who say they are revisionists are not. For them revisionism is a means to an end — rehabilitation of the reputation of Hitler. The revisionist epistemology itself is of no interest to such people. In fact, they betray it with their assent to virtually any disinformation that buttresses their “side.” Revisionist history takes no sides. It follows the truth wherever it leads.

We witness the Auschwitz execution gas chamber true believer mentality among these ersatz revisionists — only their sacred relic is Hitler, not mass extermination gas chambers in Auschwitz. But make no mistake — the mentality is the same. We have no time or patience with this grotesque pantomime of the thought process.

A few of the e-mails we have received and our replies:

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Hi Michael

Your paper on Hitler in the latest edition of your newsletter is excellent and compelling. I was a specialist in Russian-Soviet studies for many years and it was my privilege to go through thousands of documents pertaining to the German invasion of Russia.

I agree that Hitler believed the war could be easily won with Russia, but only initially, and only briefly. He was still under the delusion he could make peace with England and that the U.S. would remain neutral until Germany achieved a victory in the USSR. Even before war plans were drawn up he realized this would not be the case, but pushed on to save face. The delusion of an easy victory was perpetrated by some of his generals, even though they knew by early September that a grave miscalculation had been made. Goebbels ordered that soldiers being sent to the Eastern Front not be outfitted with winter clothes to prolong the illusion that the Eastern Front war would be over by Christmas.

Many of the generals were afraid to stand up for the soldiers, whose death by exposure and sometimes starvation was one of the most forced mass suicides in military history….

Thanks for another terrific newsletter!

Best Regards,
P. G.
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Michael Hoffman replies:

Dear P.G.

I appreciate your remarks though I dissent in one respect. You write:

“I agree that Hitler believed the war could be easily won with Russia, but only initially, and only briefly….Even before war plans were drawn up he realized this would not be the case, but pushed on to save face. The delusion of an easy victory was perpetrated by some of his generals…”

Hitler was in fact the driving force behind the belief that Russia could be conquered as an act of will and that it would occur in 1941, and not later. His generals followed suit, but they did not initiate the delusion; responsibility for it rests with Hitler.

I draw your attention to his first speech to the nation since he had ordered the invasion of Russia in June — this was given on October 3, 1941 in Berlin at the annualKriegswinterhilfswerk (Winter War Relief organization), wherein he predicted the imminent end of the war on the eastern front.

Regarding Soviet Russia, Hitler told the German people, “…this opponent has already broken down and will never rise again!” (Cf. Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945, vol iv, p. 2494 [Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004]).

He was so confident of this preposterous delusion that he openly admitted in his speech that he was shifting German industrial production away from the desperate needs of his infantry, an act of criminal incompetence and betrayal of the troops:

“Today it is only a question of transport. Today we have taken care in advance so that, in the midst of this war of materiel, I can order further production in many spheres to cease, because I know there is no opponent whom we would not be able to defeat with the existing amounts of ammunition” (cf. Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945, vol iv, p. 2494 [Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004]).
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On Jul 24, 2018, at 13:05, W.B. wrote:

Well written article. Up until your recent articles on the subject I always thought Hitler did what he thought he had to do to protect Germany; I’m now rethinking that. Was he in the employ of the “Shadow Men” and he intentionally destroyed his country? Or was he a egomaniac who thought he could save Europe, but foolishly overstepped his limits? A lot to think about. Is your concern about the right wing’s attempt to sanitize Hitler that we will fall under his psychological influence today and again follow a leader who will promise a utopia he can’t deliver?

W.B.
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Michael Hoffman replies:

Dear Mr. B.

In our opinion, the Cryptocracy wants to confine the movement for rights for white people largely to neo-Nazi contours, either directly or indirectly.

The  issue is one of leadership. The neocons are often accused of messianic ambitions in foreign policy and of course the Israeli state, but is not the neo-Nazi model most guilty of this messianism? Is there any National Socialism without a single, messiah-like figure at the head, heedless, as was the Church of Rome at the First Vatican Council, of the truth that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely?

Hitler put himself above Germany. He wanted Germany to prevail as a reflection of his own genius. An occult mindset and mandate is apparent in his Russia policy, militarily and diplomatically. Russia was supposed to be conquered by the collective will of five million apprentice magicians in the Wehrmacht and SS, under the direction of the Master Magician.

The concept reads like a Hollywood B-movie script, which is one reason why for years we had difficulty countenancing it. A deeper study of Operation Barbarossa shows it to be tragically all-too true. I don’t believe Hitler was working for anyone other than himself first, and the German nation a distant second. The future of the German people after the Third Reich mattered not to him. He threw that future away on a gamble—of  becoming a military genius who succeeded where even Napoleon had not.

I have heard a great deal over the years about the “masonic American revolution.” Many Freemasons were involved in the revolution; some of them guilty of evil acts, such as Benjamin Franklin (see here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RH7H7TT73VDC/ref=cm_cr_othr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0300217498).

Some joined the masonic order in that era in the manner in which alienated youths joined the hippie movement in the late 1960s and early ‘70s and then becoming disillusioned with the hypocrisy, dropped out later in life. George Washington did the same with Freemasonry and Jefferson was never a member.

Modern Americans have little or no understanding of the depths of revulsion in 1776 against the Calvinist and Roman churches over the Old World’s fratricidal wars of religion. America was founded with the intent to allow no such fratricide in the New World and Freemasonry exploited that noble aspiration by falsely pretending to be a brotherhood outside of ideology and against priestcraft, when it was actually a church with a dogma at least as rigid as the ones it claimed to oppose.

A certain someone once stated, “By their fruits you shall know them.” The fruits of the U.S. leadership in the early Republic were generally fine: Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason and the other limited government freedom-seekers and advocates made good on many (though not all) aspects of the promise of the American Revolution. If they were not themselves Christians most were shaped and formed from deep immersion in the Christian culture into which they were born. Their early American model of leadership was a formula for peace, freedom and success.

Hitler rejected all of that. He harkened back to a pre-Christian model of the potentate, which we find so often in the Orient, even though he and his cohort repeatedly sneered at Russia as an “Asiatic” state.

As we argued in Revisionist History no. 82, contrary to the Icebreaker thesis, Stalin feared war with Hitler and the Wehrmacht, and relished the prospect of Hitler destroying Britain. There was no immediate threat from Russia in 1941 and none foreseeable in 1942. The Non-Aggression Pact was holding. Stalin was shipping Hitler vital supplies of oil, grain and rare metals.

In issue no. 82 we pointed to Hitler’s immersion in the Wagnerian myth of Götterdämmerung. He would gamble on pursuing his impossible aims and if his will did not triumph and the German people would have to face the ruinous consequences of his folly — an apocalypse — well, it only meant that they were “unworthy” of him. In this Götterdämmerung scenario, there was zero future for Germany after the demise of the führer.

[Editor’s addition: Richard Wagner’s ‘Götterdämmerung’ or ‘Twilight of the gods’ explained:

All of his life, Adolf Hitler had been obsessed with the musical works of German composer Richard Wagner. As a teenager living in Austria, Hitler was deeply inspired by Wagner’s operas and their pagan, mythical tales of struggles against hated enemies. One time, back in 1905, after seeing Wagner’s opera Rienzi, young Hitler professed he would someday embark on a great mission, leading his people to freedom, similar to the opera’s story.

Now, some 40 years later, after failing in his mission as Führer of the German People and Reich, another of Wagner’s operas hearkened, and it was Hitler’s favorite – Der Ring des Nibelungen. It concerns a magic Ring granting its possessor the power to rule the world. In the last part of this opera, entitled Götterdämmerung, or ‘Twilight of the gods,” the hero Siegfried, betrayed by those around him, loses the Ring and winds up on a funeral pyre while the fortress of Valhalla burns and the kingdom of the gods is destroyed.

This essentially was the ending Hitler inflicted upon himself, his People and his Reich. (source)]

Neo-Nazis often speak of “irresponsible” welfare-chiselers and black ghetto dwellers in America who won’t face the consequences of their actions and only make excuses for their failure. Yet this is what I see the neo-Nazis exhibiting with regard to their idol: everyone was to blame for getting the German people massacred, Prussia lost and the remnant of Germany occupied and divided, except poor Adolf. It was Churchill or Roosevelt or Eisenhower’s fault. It was the fault of the Communists for having the nerve to mount a vigorous defense in Russia that Hitler did not anticipate. The neo-Nazis who preach to the colored races about taking responsibility, absolve their idol of almost all responsibility for the firestorm his catastrophic fantasies and bumbling egoism brought down upon Germany.

Germany would have been infinitely better off had Hitler never been born — so too the world — no “Israel” on Palestinian land in the Middle East, no “Holocaust” agit-prop, comparatively little stigma on exposing Talmudism or Zionism — tens of millions of Germans alive to reproduce and build on one of history’s great civilizations, admired world-wide as “the people of Bach and Beethoven.”

We could debate this until doomsday. I am only interested in results however, and the result of Hitler’s rule was a Götterdämmerung for Germany. If some type of closet Nazism is reanimated it will also end in ashes for the whites who adopt it. Here’s the winner’s formula: We will have no King (or “führer) but Jesus.
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Please note: … Those who have curiosity about new discoveries in history can order issue no. 97 or issue no. 82, or both, and determine for themselves who is and is not in error on this subject. These days too little effort is devoted to deep study. (As with issue 82, issue no. 80 on Gregor Strasser, “Hitler had him Murdered,” can be ordered and paid by credit card with an invoice we can e-mail to you).

To budding revisionist researchers our advice is to search for data that undercuts your beliefs and if those beliefs remain intact after having consulted sophisticated contrarian views, you can proceed on course; otherwise you must re-vision. Those outside this process cannot be taken seriously. They are cheerleaders for a partisan side.

Michael Hoffman is the editor of Revisionist History®
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