World War I

The war which was fought “to make the world safe for democracy,” as U.S. president Wilson put it. It is remarkable, however, the U.S joined the fight at the side of the French republic, the parliamentary monarchy England, and the absolute monarchy Russia in order to fight the parliamentary monarchies of Germany and Austria. Wilson also stated that this was “the war to end all wars;” to the contrary, it triggered an endless chain of conflicts which continue to this day. That these statements make little sense is itself in keeping with this most senseless fratricidal conflict in European history. Here you can find contributions about the prelude, conduct, and aftermath of this first worldwide conflagration that made the lights go out in Europe; about war crimes – real and invented; and about the Russian Revolution emanating from it.

Following the final defeat of Napoleonic France, the leaders of Europe gathered for the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to reorganize the war-torn continent. European recovery from the consequences of Napoleon’s downfall was considerably aided by the decent and magnanimous treatment of defeated France by the victorious powers. Henry Kissinger …

Partly for the bibliographic record, we have begun a preliminary list of some key Revisionist titles and papers spanning several subjects. Although it has been argued that revisionism is as old as history itself, here we will begin with the First World War. The first group of revisionists sought to …

Recent headlines announcing that World War One had finally ended were sure to raise an eyebrow of those of us who noticed. While even on-going wars like those in Iraq and Afghanistan are minor media stories dwarfed by the latest extravagances and debauchery of Hollywood's rich and famous and the …

The changes wrought in America during the First World War were so profound that one scholar has referred to "the Wilsonian Revolution in government."[1] Like other revolutions, it was preceded by an intellectual transformation, as the philosophy of progressivism came to dominate political discourse.[2] Progressive notions – of …

This paper contends that the present so-called “conflict of civilizations,” or “war on terrorism,” and the Arab-Israeli conflict have their origins in the covert machinations of the Great War that betrayed the Arabs, prolonged the war, and established a pestilential organism at the center of the Islamic world that will …

The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson, New York: Basic Books, 1999 Anyone whose study of history has ever gone beyond a school textbook or The History Channel will know that the normal discussion of wars and other upheavals are wide open among historians. It is routine when studying wars and …

The Great War Retold

These are boom times for histories of World War I. Like its sequel, though to a lesser degree, it seems to be the war that never ends...

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark, HarperCollins, New York 2013, 697pp. The question of the causes of the outbreak of the First World War—known for many years during and afterwards as the Great War—is probably the most hotly contested in the whole history of …

By  Wilfried Heink- [caption id="attachment_2295" align="alignright" width="150"] CIA Map of Syria[/caption] Looking at the events as they unfolded regarding Syria, one wonders what this is really all about. The “No” vote by the British Parliament is viewed as a return to law and order, "The people have spoken." Obama then …

By Richard A. Widmann- [caption id="attachment_2244" align="alignright" width="150"] Revisionism should start with Bismarck's reunification of Germany in 1871[/caption] Widmann: For readers who may not know you, could you explain how you first became involved in historical revisionism? Heink: I was born in 1937, in Germany, a long story and not …

By Wilfried Heink- [caption id="attachment_2301" align="alignright" width="150"] Was the German Kaiser really responsible for launching WWI?[/caption] Preamble The Holy Roman Empire German Nation, in fact a German Empire – German chiefs had accepted the Pope as ceremonial head of state – for various reasons disintegrated over time into Kingdoms, Principalities, …

Genesi della "Dichiarazione di Balfour" Originale della Dichiarazione di Balfour Il 2 novembre1917 il ministro degli esteri inglese, Arthur Balfour, scrisse una lettera a Lord Rothschild, quale principale rappresentante della comunità ebraica in Inghilterra e referente del movimento sionista, con la quale il governo britannico affermava di guardare con favore …

..             La prassi della menzogna come spinta all'aggressione inglese/yankee alla Germania...e... il "male Assoluto, Adolf Hitler, non era cancelliere del Reich! Quindi "a prescindere". In pratica, oggi, anche il più ritardato minus habens, democraticamente allattato e nutrito, riesce a capire che  i Tedeschi del …