Is the Pope is a Red Diaper Baby

‘Jai Mahakali, Ayo Gorkhali!’

So much for Papal infallibility.  According to the NY Times (6/21/2015), the Pope thinks the great powers did nil to stop the Holocaust.  Seriously?   How did the Pope  miss the horrific fighting that went on in WWII and the reasons the fighting started.  England, France, Poland and the US suffered 4,000,000 casualties fighting the Axis.  The US alone had a million casualties.

 

In August, 1943, the first long-range bombing raid into central Europe, hundreds of miles south of Auschwitz, was a military disaster for the US.  Flying out of recently captured airfields in North Africa 177 B-24 heavy bombers attacked the Ploesti oil refineries -- a 2,000 mile round trip, at the extreme limit of the bombers' capability.  The Germans shot down 54 bombers with the loss of over 600 crewmen.  Another 53 aircraft were heavily damaged.  The US raid caused minimal damage to the oil refinery.  The US never again attempted a low level mission against German air defenses, and concentrated its bombing campaign on closer more vulnerable strategic targets in central Germany and in support of the offensive in France where air power was needed to pin down German reinforcements and negate German superiority in armored weaponry.

England and France went to war with Germany to stop the German takeover in Poland.  This was actually years before Auschwitz went into operation.  The US, which in fact had virtually no army in 1939, began its undeclared war against Germany in support of Britain in 1940.  In July of 1941, a US fleet and marines took over the occupation of Danish Iceland, freeing 25,000 British troops to fight in North Africa, equipped with American tanks and artillery.  Severe US sanctions against Japan, levied to stop Japanese aggression in China, and US military aid to China, including the famous flying Tiger airmen, resulted in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and formal entry of the US into WWII.  All through 1940 and 1941, the United States undertook an immense mobilization, creating from virtually nothing an Army and Navy capable of defeating the Axis.  It wasn't until the second half of 1943 that the US was able to begin deploying the results of this astonishing industrial mobilization.  The  revolutionary long-range P-51 fighter wasn't deployed against the Luftwaffe  over Germany until the winter of 1943-44, making a strategic bombing campaign against the German heartland militarily feasible.  At that, strategic bombing was still so inaccurate that thousands of bombs had to be dropped to destroy important targets.

The real villain in this tragedy was the Soviet Union, which allied with Germany to carve up Poland.  If the Soviet Union hadn't undercut England, France and Poland at the beginning of WWII, millions of lives would have been saved.  Indeed even after the Soviet Union ended up on the Allies side,  they halted their armies at the gates of Auschwitz for months and in close proximity to the death camp dropped not a bomb on it to stop the Nazis.  The red diaper babies, of course, don't want to hear any of this.  Not only was the Soviet Union an ally of Hitler in the division of Poland, but the Communist front organizations in the West, at the direction of Stalin, opposed US and Britain going to war over Poland.  Among the Left's anti-war crowd:  Bertrand Russell, the American Communist Party, and Pete Seeger, famous for the anti-war song Plow Under [Every fourth American boy].

"I will argue that if the Germans succeeded in sending an invading army to England we should do best to treat them as visitors, give them quarters, and invite the Commander in Chief to dine with the Prime Minister. Such behaviour would completely baffle them."  -- Bertrand Russell

Who'd have thought the Pope is a red diaper baby. 

By the way, doesn't the Pope care about the millions and millions of Chinese the Japanese killed during WWII.  

Of course, after its perfidy in Poland, helping Hitler start World War II in Europe, the Soviet Union mounted a massive resistance when Hitler turned on his ally,  aided by immense quantities of munitions, tanks, artillery, truck and aircraft from the United States.  Indirectly at the very least the Red Army offensive that reached the gates of Auschwitz in late 1944 ended its operations.   Nazi leader Himmler ordered extermination operations ended in November of 1944, as the Red Army approached.   When Auschwitz was evacuated in January of 1945, the Allies offensive had so degraded Germany's transportation system that the Auschwitz inmates were marched to Germany by foot.   20,000 survived the march and were liberated by the British in the spring of 1945.

In the North Atlantic, in North Africa, at Stalingrad, on the beaches of Normandy, at Imphal, at Midway and Guadalcanal, at Bataan and Shanghai, the Axis came very close to defeating the "great" powers.  US Marines fixing their bayonets for their desperate stand in the darkness on Edson's ridge.  Ammunition gone, Gurkhas unsheathing their Kukris, to continue the fight hand-to-hand at the gateway to India; the Gurkhas' martyrdom on Hangman's Hill at Monte Cassino.  Russian peasant snipers crawling through the rubble into the German lines.   US paratroopers surrounded at Bastogne saying "Nuts" to Nazi demands for surrender.  Wave after wave of US aircraft continuing to attack the Japanese fleet at Midway, sacrificing themselves again and again to clear the way for the last desperate attack, which finally won the battle.  Today, many, some maliciously, forget the desperate hours of WWII and those who sacrificed their lives to stop Hitler, Tojo and their genocidal agenda.