U.S. and Soviet Inheritance of Nazi Goals

1.  The main target of the Nazis, and of Hitler's Mein Kampf, was two-fold: the destruction of Jewish autonomy in Europe, and the defeat of Communism in Europe.  They saw these two as combined, in the huge Jewish presence in Poland and Eastern Europe, and in Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe.  The Soviet Union had been promoting and aiding Yiddish language autonomy for Jews, meaning that Yiddish was regarded as an official language in many areas in Eastern Europe.  It was for a time official in the Ukraine, and the Soviet Union had set up a Jewish Autonomous region in the Soviet Far East.  One of the major centers of Yiddish was Poland, which is the country Germany attacked to begin World War II.  Yiddish is essentially a dialect of German, written with Hebrew letters.  Under Soviet support, Jews were publishing in Yiddish, creating educational materials in Yiddish, and having schools and colleges in Yiddish.  Yiddish was on its way to becoming an official European language - uniquely the language of the European Jews.  And all this was happening and flourishing, under Soviet/Communist auspices. The Nazis perceived this Jewish/Yiddish/Communist phenomenon as a primary threat.

2.  After the war, the United States inherited one of the Nazis' two main goals: the anti-Communist goal.  The second of the Nazis' two main goals was inherited by the Soviet Union: the anti-Jewish autonomy goal.  In contrast to the Nazi goals, however, the U. S. and the Soviet Union both took up an anti-Nazi goal at the same time.  So, the U. S. became the great supporter of Jewish Autonomy - especially in Israel.  And the Soviet Union became the great supporter of Communism, which manifested primarily in its support of the People's Republic of China.  Thus the anti-Communist world, led by the U. S., was instrumental in supporting the Jewish autonomous State of Israel, founded in 1948, just after the end of World War II. And the Communist world, lead by the Soviet Union, was instrumental in supporting the communist People's Republic of China, founded in 1949.  While the Nazi goals of eliminating Communism and Jewish/Yiddish Autonomy in Europe were essentially successful, the two re-flourished within two countries more or less stable and accepted within the international community: the Jewish autonomous State of Israel, and the Chinese communist People's Republic of China.

Key Events Immediately After World War II

1. William L. Shirer was the U.S. war reporter who remained inside of Nazi Germany during the war, until December 1940. He returned to Berlin in 1945 for the Nuremberg trials. He published "The Berlin Diaries" (1941), "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", and other major works. He was the American reporter closest to the center of what was happening in Nazi Germany.

2. George F. Kennan, on the other hand, was the U.S. war reporter who remained in Moscow, during World War II. In contrast to the internal reporting of the Nazis produced by Shirer, Kennan published documents such as "The Long Telegram" (1946), a description of what he described as the Soviet/Communist threat. Kennan's work was used by the government of President Truman (who replaced FDR in 1945, after FDR died during his fourth term as President), to formulate the "Truman Doctrine", which presented the U.S. as a "Free World" fighting against communist expansion - first and foremost, against the Soviet Union.

3. William Shirer, who gave the United States the most accurate report of World War II from the inside of Nazi Germany, was blacklisted as a communist sympathizer in 1950, for the sole reason that he opposed the Truman Doctrine.

4. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the only Americans executed for espionage as a result of their spying for the Soviets during World War II. Their characteristics: They came from eastern European, Yiddish speaking, Jewish families, who were supportive of the Soviet Union and of communism. These were exactly the same type of Jews who were targeted by the Nazis. The majority of the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, were eastern European, Yiddish speaking Jews, supportive of socialism and communism, who were benefiting from eastern European and Soviet programs to promote the Yiddish language and Jewish autonomy in Europe. The Nazis perceived this as a direct attack/threat against German autonomy and "Lebensraum".

5. The United States, instead of seeing Nazi Germany from the inside and recognizing its internal dynamics (as expressed by Shirer), instead adopted the skewed, Soviet/communist threat world view presented by Kennan. The U.S., unwittingly or not, adapted the Nazi anti-communist mission to meet U.S. standards. The Jews, and Yiddish communists, were no longer seen as a threat, as the Nazis had completely uprooted them as a threat from Europe. Instead, the world could now deal with a Hebrew (not Yiddish) speaking people, who had their own country, not in Europe, but in the Middle East. In other words, the Jewish threat as perceived by the Nazis, had ceased to exist - for the United States, as well.

6. The essential inability of the United States in not being able to perceive accurately the inner dynamics of World War II in Europe, is based almost completely on the U.S. not being able to break out of an English language world view, in order to embrace the German and Yiddish languages, in the context of Germany and the Jewish State of Israel, as the only solution to clearly understanding the events surrounding World War II.

7. Note that the State of Israel also discouraged the use of Yiddish, and promoted Hebrew. There was also an agreement, the Haavara Agreement, between German Jewish Zionists Organizations and the Nazis, which began in 1933 and continued up until the outbreak of the war, to transfer Jews and there property/capital from Germany to Palestine. There were some efforts to continue this project even during the war. Also, "assimilated Jews" are considered those Jews who took on the language of the surrounding non-Jewish countries, instead of preserving their Jewish language. Before World War II, this language was Yiddish. After World War II, this language became Hebrew. Those Jews who are more comfortable using a non-Jewish language (that is, not Hebrew or Yiddish), are considered to be assimilated Jews - they have lost their Jewish identity to the degree that they have become assimilated (lost their ability to communicate comfortably in a Jewish language - Hebrew or Yiddish).