The Nazis won WW II.

6 July 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Hitler speaking before a Nazi assembly.

Only in historical retrospect can the outcome of an ideological war be known and understood with any reasonable degree of certainty. World War Two was waged between the Allied nations that had been invaded by the Axis nations, and the Axis nations that had invaded them; so, clearly, it was a defensive war for the Allies, and an aggressive war for the Axis. The ideological issue in it was between the Axis nations who held that “Might makes right,” versus the Allied nations who held that “No it doesn’t.” To simplify this ideological matter: the Axis powers were supremacists; the Allied powers were equalitarians. (That simplification, however, ignores exceptions to it, such as Churchill’s intense imperialism..<> But to any generalization about social events, there are exceptions.)

Might-makes-right is the fundamental belief of conservatives (such as religions that believe right is whatever some alleged ‘The Almighty’ wants), and repudiation of it is the fundamental belief of progressives (consequently, a progressive in domestic affairs advocates for the masses or “public” and especially for the poor, against the super-rich). Internationally, the advocacy of might-makes-right is imperialism, and the advocacy of no-it-doesn’t is anti-imperialism. Nationally (or intra-nationally, or “domestically”) the advocacy of might-makes-right is the belief that the worth of a person is whatever his/her net worth is, and the advocacy of no-it-isn’t is that each person has the same rights as every other person does (and therefore, a person’s net worth has nothing to do with it). However, Germany under Nazism held that a person’s ‘race’ was an even more important determinant of a person’s worth than his/her wealth is; and, so, if the Axis powers had won, then Germany would have invaded Japan. So, the most extreme anti-equal-rights Government (the most extremely fascist one) was Germany, because it took into account not only a person’s wealth, but also the person’s ancestors. Ancestry was considered first, and then whomever passed that ancestral criterion was evaluated by referring to the individual’s net worth, or (as the Nazis called it) ‘achievement’. Both Mussolini’s Italians and Hirohito’s Japanese were fascists — funded mainly by their nation’s super-rich — but Hitler’s Germans were funded mainly by ONLY ‘Aryan’ (purebred Christian) super-rich.

Here is the best-available evidence on what “Aryan” ACTUALLY meant in Hitler’s Germany:

Eberhard Bethge, who had been a liberal Protestant cleric during the Third Reich, was interviewed in the last chapter of Augustin Hedberg's 1992 FAITH UNDER FIRE and was asked what those years had been like. Bethge commented, “‘Bad blood’ was the great term. You had to have Aryan blood.” Hitler, in only his private statements, had defined “Aryan,” as pureblooded Christian. Bethge’s interviewer inquired, “So we know this Jewish poison [Jewish blood] had to be cleansed. How did they propose to do that?” Bethge replied, tellingly: “For instance, everybody in an office, in a village, in a city, in a province, in Berlin, had to prove that he had [only] Aryan ancestors. How could he do that? He could do it only if he wrote to church officers in the villages or in the cities and asked them to look in the old books of the church in which baptisms were recorded. So many pastors and church secretaries had to work for hours and hours, weeks and months to answer all these requests. ‘Please give me an excerpt out of the church files that proves my ancestors had been Christians.’ The church officers and the ministers, they didn't care. They did that. They said, 'How important we are now.’ I was an assistant curator in the winter of '33. I had to sit all morning and look through the books and answer these letters.” It was therefore the Christian clergy themselves — people indoctrinated with John 8:44, and Matthew 27:25, and Matthew 23:31-36, and Luke 19:27, etc. — who were the proud implementers of the indispensable first step in the Nazis’ 12-year-long “racist” war against the Jews, by supplying the crucial raw data for segregating-out Jews. Bethge was even honest enough to admit, “We were anti-Semitic, and we thought this was Christian.” (Of course, they did, because it was, and they had absorbed this from Christianity’s Scripture.) The essential first step in the “final solution” was this identification of who was NOT an “Aryan,” who WAS “a Jew.” Hitler commanded this first step in the year he came into power, 1933, and the Christian clergy executed it with pride. And yet even today, so-called “historians” say that Hitler didn’t have the execution of the Jews in mind from the very start, and that Hitler was no Christian, and so forth.

So, Hitler’s form of fascism (the might-makes-right ideology), which was nazism, was a racism that was based on religion; but it was also a racism that was based on nationality — Germans, 94% of whom were Christians (and therefore were co-religionists with Hitler), were Nazis, and were carrying out and leading the exterminationist Holocaust in every land that they conquered. (Zionist Jews now copy Hitler’s exterminationist anti-Semitism, against Palestinians, especially in Gaza.)

Under America’s leadership, which started the Cold War on 25 July 1945, and which started Israel on 14 May 1948 (and the Nakba the next day, which now is being completed), we have continued the Axis ideologies, fascism and even outright nazism, with the goal being for the U.S. empire to ultimately include the entire world. This fascist and sometimes even nazi ideology is called both neoliberalism (or “libertarianism”) and neoconservatism, but it is also called “free-market” (meaning that a government is founded upon its economy, an economy is NOT founded upon its government — which is ACTUALLY the case), and internationalism (meaning that international empires, or imperialism, are good not bad). It is really the hypocritical form of fascism. Anyway, throughout the U.S. empire, this is the standard ideology; and that is, for example, the reason why the U.S. empire approves of and arms Israel to exterminate the Gazans and dispossess the other Palestinians. America supplies 69% of Israel’s weaponry, and Germany supplies 30%; so, both countries are up to their necks in Palestinian blood. This is entirely fitting for the Americanized form of nazism.

Hitler with the staff of the OKH (Screenshot/ author/Bundesarchiv-CC)

Here are three recent videos presenting, first, the intra-national operation against the weakest people, the poor; and, then, the international operation against especially Russia, like Hitler’s Nazi Party also was (Germany’s Operation Barbarossa); and, then, some similarities between today’s America, and Germany in the 1930s and ’40s. When I have found falsehoods in these videos, I point that out in the autogenerated transcripts I present of them, because spoken “evidences” that offer no documentation, such as in most online ‘news’-video commentaries — such as these here are — are NOT high quality (not to be taken as being 100% true) evidence, but I do know that generally speaking these three are reliable, and that the first one presented here, by Yanis Varoufakis (who participated prominently in the events he describes), is entirely true, and, is really a significant historical document for historians of what he is describing in this video:

https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/au0Hj-Ejors

“Yanis Varoufakis: The one message you MUST hear — 10 years after Greece’s NO”