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.
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ August 29, 2014
World War I was a tremendous disaster. While estimates vary, most experts agree that over 8 million combatants were killed and another 21 million were wounded.[1] The United States suffered over 116,000 deaths including those attributed to disease and accidents. For the US, it was the costliest war since the American Civil War. However tragic…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ July 27, 2014
By Wilfried Heink- 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, Duchies, etc., etc.. And although the Hapsburg's, the last line of German Emperors who had moved to Vienna…
By Thomas Dalton ∙ May 23, 2014
In Part 1 of this article, I provided an account of the Jewish role in the events leading up to World War One, with an emphasis on their influence in the UK and United States. Woodrow Wilson was shown to be the first American president elected with the full backing of the Jewish lobby, and…
By Ralph Raico ∙ May 23, 2014
Wherever blame for the war might lie, for the immense majority of Americans in 1914 it was just another of the European horrors from which our policy of neutrality, set forth by the Founding Fathers of the Republic, had kept us free. Pašić, Sazonov, Conrad, Poincaré, Moltke, Edward Grey, and the rest – these were…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ May 6, 2014
By Richard A. Widmann- 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 the issue here. In 1959 my wife and I, along with our 1-year-old son, moved to Canada. At first,…
By Thomas Dalton ∙ July 1, 2013
In 2006, an inebriated Mel Gibson allegedly said this: “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” There followed the predicable storm of anti-anti-Semitism, ad hominem attacks, and various other slanders against Gibson’s character. But virtually no one asked the question: Is he right? Or rather this: To what degree could he…
By Ralph Raico ∙ December 1, 2013
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 the obsolescence of laissez-faire and of constitutionally…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ October 1, 2013
Charles Callan Tansill, one of the foremost American diplomatic historians of the Twentieth Century, was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, on December 9, 1890, the son of Charles and Mary Tansill.[1] Tansill earned his bachelor’s degree from the Catholic University of America in 1912 and his Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1918. At Johns…
By Ralph Raico ∙ April 1, 2013
With the onset of war in Europe, hostilities began in the North Atlantic which eventually provided the context – or rather, pretext – for America’s participation. Immediately, questions of the rights of neutrals and belligerents leapt to the fore. In 1909, an international conference had produced the Declaration of London, a statement of international law…
By Ralph Raico ∙ December 1, 2012
The immediate origins of the 1914 war lie in the twisted politics of the Kingdom of Serbia.[1] In June, 1903, Serbian army officers murdered their king and queen in the palace and threw their bodies out a window, at the same time massacring various royal relations, cabinet ministers, and members of the palace guards. It…
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