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James Harting
In English, we speak of "World War II" or "Second World War." But these designations are not universal.
Stalin, for example, called it the "Great Patriotic War" (Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́ or Velíkaya Otéchestvennaya voyná), successfully seeking to harness the powerful forces of nationalism in defense of the Soviet Union. Although the USSR is now past history, the War is still known by this name in Russia and some of the former Soviet slave states.
After the fall of France in 1940, Adolf Hitler floated the name, the "English War" on a few occasions, in the same manner that Americans speak of the "Mexican War" or the "Vietnam War." This designation never caught on, however, probably because--even absent France--too many other countries were involved.
Eventually, Hitler chose the "Great-German Freedom (or Liberation) Struggle" (der grossdeutsche Freiheitskampf) as his official name for the War.
It is a cumbersome name, although perhaps more so in English than in German, and it sounds a little unusual at first.
But upon examination, it reveals Hitler's fundamental perception that he was fighting a defensive war, in order to liberate Germany from the historic shackles put on it. These shackles in the first instance were the result of the Treaty of Versailles, but in origin go back even earlier.
With the passage of time comes an altered perspective, and some postwar observers have viewed the War differently from those who were participating in it as it occurred.
The great British National-Socialist Arnold Leese grimly called the struggle the "Jewish War of Survival." He published a book by this name and on this theme in 1946, even before the conclusion of the Nuremberg proceedings. It is the first NS book in any language published after the war, and the very first work of Revisionist literature.
The neo-Fascist ideologue Francis Parker Yockey felt that "the War" was actually three separate wars that, coincidently, were fought at the same time, giving the impression that there was a single conflict. Yockey lists the three wars as, (1) in the West, a civil war between the European nations; (2) in the East, a war between Europe and Bolshevik Russia; and (3) in the Far East, a war between Japan the European colony of America.
Other historians, expanding on Yockey's theory, have included the First World War, and have spoken of the "European Civil War, 1914-1945." This scheme includes a 20-year interbellum period, during which the two sides that had fought themselves to exhaustion from 1914-1919, regained their strength for a second go at it.
We National-Socialists, however, building on and expanding Hitler's conception, might well call it the Great Aryan War of Liberation. The first segment of this war has been fought and lost--but the struggle is not yet done.
This is another way of saying that the War is not over for us, and that our fight will continue until the Final Victory!
