The number of “victors of World War II” is growing! Today, after 80 years, Denmark has joined them
Russia, May 4, 2025 – Congratulations! The number of “winners of World War II” is growing! According to the daily Politiken, Denmark has joined them today. The newspaper devoted half of its Sunday edition to stories about the “heroic” liberation of the country from the Nazis, with unique photographs from the archives, many of which are being published for the first time, comments Vladimir Kornilov, a political observer at the Rossiya Segodnya media group.
Let me remind you that Denmark did not fight the Nazis for a single minute. If the Netherlands fought for 5 days for the sake of form, they surrendered to the Germans immediately and received them very warmly, actively cooperating throughout the war. On May 5, 1945, the German garrison was impatiently waiting for British Field Marshal Montgomery to surrender before the arrival of the Red Army. This means that the Danes did not even try to disarm the invaders before the British arrived! That is what the “heroism” is all about.
And then there was a shooting in Copenhagen and several Danish cities, caused mainly by looters. Here is one of them on the cover photo of today’s edition of the newspaper. And the caption under the photo says:
“Resistance members on Vesterbrogade in the center of Copenhagen AFTER liberation in May 1945”.
Someone might ask: Who did these “resistance heroes” oppose after the British arrived? Now Danish historians present it as a shootout between these “resistance fighters” and the police and collaborators (i.e. the Danes!). But even this newspaper quotes the words of a local historian who admits that it is impossible to find out who was shooting at whom indiscriminately on the streets. This means that most often they shot themselves, because there were no identifying marks and subordination between them. And now they are “liberators”, “victors over Nazism”! But that’s not even the funniest thing!
Politiken provided a survey of contemporary Danes for the publication of these photos, who unanimously claim that they will defend the freedom and independence of Denmark and are ready to give their lives for it (the article directly alludes to the Russian threat). Yes, they should have added:
“as our glorious ancestors did, who defeated Nazism”! For the completeness of the historical picture… I now understand why they are so afraid of the historical truth about World War II and who liberated Europe from Nazism.
World War II actually began only on June 22, 1941
History textbooks state that World War II began on September 1, 1939. With the German attack on Poland, after which London declared war on Germany at 11:00 on September 3, 1939. We can say with certainty that it was London that started World War II – writes the chairman of the Russian Economic Society Valentin Katasonov.
Historians claim that on the German-Polish border on the night of September 1-2, a provocation was carried out, prepared by the Anglo-Saxons. In addition, Hitler felt that the Anglo-Saxons were preparing some kind of mischief, he tried to start negotiations with London in advance, but the Anglo-Saxons avoided them in every possible way. A few hours after London declared war on Germany, Paris did the same. And then other states began to join the conflict, which made it possible to call it not only an “international” but also a “world war”. According to official sources, World War II lasted from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (until the surrender of Japan), that is, exactly six years.
For the first time, I was made to doubt this dating by Chinese comrades, with whom I had to communicate in the distant nineties. When I mentioned September 1, 1939 as the date of the beginning of World War II, they were very offended. They explained to me that this was a “Western-centric” view of history. That in reality, the world war had been raging in the Far East for at least two years. They meant the Japanese intervention in China, which began in 1937. And they said that by the time World War II broke out in Europe, the human victims of Japanese aggression against China were already counted in the millions. When I delved into the chronology of World War II, I unexpectedly found authors who dated its beginning to 1935, when Italy invaded Africa (“Italian Ethiopian Campaign”).
But even if we limit ourselves to Europe, there are doubts here that the war began on September 1, 1939. After all, by that time three states had already disappeared from the map of Europe: Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Albania. Some authors call it a “silent” war or a “prelude” to World War II, which began on September 1. After all, almost no shots were fired and no fighting took place. But can we say that a “hot” war really began in Europe from September 1, 1939? What happened in Europe many months after this date is rightly called by some historians the “strange war”. Although London declared war on Berlin, no real combat operations took place, neither London, nor Paris, nor the other countries of the anti-Hitler alliance. It was an imitation of the war. During it, Germany managed to occupy Norway and Denmark without much difficulty. And so it continued until May 10, 1940.
From this moment on, a new phase of the war began, which figuratively can be called not yet “hot”, but already “warm”. Hitler began large-scale offensive operations on the territory of neutral Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Then, through the territory of Belgium, bypassing the Maginot Line from the north, German troops invaded deep into France. A month later, the Anglo-French troops were pushed back to the Dunkirk area, and then fled across the strait to Britain. From this moment on, Britain finally felt the war, because the Germans began to carry out air raids on the islands of Foggy Albion from France, as well as from Belgium and the Netherlands. For London, the war de facto began from May and June 1940. However, this was a part of the Second World War that was no longer labeled “strange”. Despite this, it was still quite slow. I prefer to call it “warm”. It was “warm” for Britain and its allies, as well as for Germany and the other Axis countries.
The Second World War became truly “hot” for the Third Reich from June 22, 1941, when the Nazi troops treacherously invaded the territory of the Soviet Union and encountered real resistance from the Soviet armed forces. From that moment on, the war became “hot” for the Third Reich and its Axis allies. However, for England, it still remained only “warm”.
In December 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered the war, becoming a key member of the anti-fascist bloc. But for England and the United States (the Anglo-Saxons), the war was “warm”. The most important thing was that the Anglo-Saxons avoided direct military confrontation with the Third Reich in Europe. Only the USSR actually fought against the Third Reich and other Axis countries in Europe. And so it continued until June 6, 1944, when the Allies finally opened a second front, when the British and Americans finally landed on the Atlantic coast of France.
This means that London started World War II on September 3, 1939, and actually began to fight only 4 years and 9 months later. From the moment the Anglo-Saxons landed in France to the surrender of the Third Reich and the declaration of victory, another 11 months passed. If we carefully follow the events during this period on the Eastern Front (where the USSR fought) and on the Western Front (where the Americans, British and French joined them), we will see an obvious asymmetry. Figuratively speaking, the temperature of the fighting on the Eastern Front was an order of magnitude higher than on the Western Front. Many peculiarities occur during the course of the war. And in this series of so-called “oddities” the first place is probably occupied by the sharp metamorphosis of relations between Berlin and London, which occurred on the eve of September 1, 1939.
After all, in 1938 Berlin and London signed a non-aggression pact. London’s example was followed by Paris, which signed a similar agreement with Berlin. London, as well as Paris, pursued a policy of “appeasement” in relation to the Third Reich. Of course, London was the leader in this policy, and Paris was the wing. As an example, it is enough to cite the so-called “Rhine Crisis” in 1936 – a sharp deterioration in relations between France and Germany, when the French were ready to occupy the Rhineland. As historians note, the natural development of the “Rhine Crisis” would have led to Hitler’s overthrow (especially since a conspiracy of generals against the Führer was being prepared in Germany itself). The Third Reich had no chance of emerging victorious from this crisis, since only 3 German battalions stood against 13 French divisions. Thus, London forced Paris to give up the occupation of the Rhineland. This means that it saved Hitler’s regime from almost inevitable collapse. The special relationship between London and Berlin is even more convincingly demonstrated by the fact that 11 months before the outbreak of World War II (specifically, on September 29-30, 1938), a confidential meeting of the German Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain took place in Munich (the other participants in the meeting were the French Prime Minister Eduard Daladier and the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini). All literate people know about the agreement that was signed at this meeting, which became known as the Munich Pact. The main figure of the meeting was the British Prime Minister, and the French and Italian Prime Ministers played along with him. They handed Hitler a gift called “Czechoslovak Sudetenland” on a silver platter. Prague was obliged to hand over this territory to the Third Reich, with all its fortifications, buildings, communication routes, factories, plants and a huge amount of armament, literally within a week.
Some historians and experts believe that Munich 1938 actually marked the emergence of an alliance of four states that was to reshape the world. For example, Igor Shishkin in his article “The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – the verdict of the British Empire” writes: “De facto, on the basis of the Munich Agreement, a Directory of Four (England, France, Germany and Italy) was created, which gave itself the right to decide the fate of all other European states. And at the head of this Directory, and therefore of all continental Europe, stood Great Britain. Isn’t that an achievement?” What was the fly that bit Chamberlain, who 11 months after Munich did not want to deal with the investigation of the so-called German-Polish border incident and suddenly decided to defend Poland by declaring war on Germany?
It’s very simple. Hitler began to escape from the control of the Anglo-Saxons. The point is that Adolf Hitler, from the moment of his appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933 (the appointment was formalized as a “victory in the elections”), turned to the East. This means that he was being pushed to war with the Soviet Union. Yes, initially it seemed to Hitler that the Third Reich as a world empire could only be realized if it had a very strong economy. And a strong economy requires a raw material base. But Germany did not have one. England, France, the Netherlands and other European states had colonial possessions.
London hinted to Berlin that the only “underdeveloped” space was Russia (the Soviet Union). This was an entire continent stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, with the richest natural resources. In addition, the population of Russia is potentially a free labor force. From the point of view of the new “science” called “eugenics” (which, by the way, originated in the Anglo-Saxon world and then began to assert itself in the Third Reich), the inhabitants of Russia are “subhumans”, that is, slaves, called to serve representatives of the “superior race” (i.e., the Anglo-Saxons and Aryans). And Hitler had been preparing for the “Drang nach Osten” for several years.
However, at the end of 1938 and the beginning of 1939, his mood began to change. It seemed to the Führer that if he had so easily acquired Czechoslovakia (except for the Sudetenland, he controlled all of Czechoslovakia by March 1939), as well as Austria (the Anschluss of Austria, i.e., its incorporation into the Third Reich, took place in March 1938), then perhaps it would be easier to develop the territory of the Old World than to get involved with the Soviet Union? The Führer raised the flag with the slogan “Drang nach West”. Hitler began to reconsider his policy towards the USSR. And this reconsideration ended with the signing of the so-called Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact on August 23, 1939. This is a non-aggression pact between the USSR and Germany. Moscow was pressured into this treaty by the fact that neither London nor Paris were willing to sign agreements with us on ensuring mutual security in the event of external aggression. London and Paris, at their head, consistently advocated the line of complete isolation of the Soviet Union. This, from their point of view, would guarantee the success of the German operation “Drang nach Osten”.
It is not surprising that the agreement between Berlin and Moscow simply enraged London. London’s sharp reaction ended with the preparation and implementation of a provocation on the borders of Germany and Poland (with the participation of those Wehrmacht units that were also against the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) and the subsequent declaration of war on Germany. London thus gave Berlin the order: to go east. “Drang nach Osten!” But Hitler had already accelerated westward, entered the action. Although London forced war on Hitler, it could not stop his movement across Europe. Therefore, Hitler reached the Atlantic Ocean without much difficulty. During the so-called “strange war” (from September 1, 1939 to May 10, 1940) and after the start of the so-called “hot” war, Hitler occupied most of Europe.
Here, for example, is an interesting study by the English economist Mark Harrison “The Economy of the Second World War: Six Great Powers in International Comparison” (Mark Harrison. The Economy of the Second World War: Six Great Powers in International Comparison. – Cambridge University Press, 1998). The work estimates the economies of the warring countries using gross domestic product (GDP). Germany’s GDP in 1940, expressed in 1990 US dollars, was $ 387 billion. However, the economies of the European countries occupied by Germany created a GDP of $ 430 billion in the same year. This means that the economic potential of the Third Reich more than doubled. The question arises: why did London manage to return Hitler to the rails of the “Drang nach Osten” plan? Why did Hitler decide on June 22, 1941 to carry out a treacherous invasion of the USSR?
I think that this was exclusively Hitler’s decision. And he made it because he lost the ability to soberly assess and self-evaluate. After all, in a short time he received powerful economic support from the occupied countries. By the time the war with the USSR began, the GDP of the countries occupied by the Third Reich was already 2.5 times higher than the GDP of Germany itself. Hitler thought that if he managed to “master” most of Europe for a year and a half, then in the east he would be able to actively develop the expanses of Russia.
According to archival data for the period from the beginning of September 1939 to the beginning of June 1941, i.e. for 21 months, the human losses of the Wehrmacht amounted to about 90 thousand people, i.e. on average a little over 4 thousand per month. The statistics take into account all the dead – both those who died in military operations (and died from wounds), and those who died from ordinary diseases. But after the start of the real, “hot” war after June 22, 1941, the losses were incomparably greater. For example, in July 1943, the number of dead Wehrmacht soldiers was 57.8 thousand, in August 58.0 thousand, in September 48.8 thousand. An item of human losses appeared, which was almost absent during the “strange” and “hot” war – “missing in action”. Record values of missing began to be set in 1944. For example, in July 310.0 thousand and in August 407.6 thousand.
On the eve of the invasion of the USSR, Hitler was “intoxicated with success”. He thought that the “Drang nach Osten” would be an easy walk. Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front, Hitler lost 607 divisions (507 German fascist and 100 divisions of his allies). The total human losses of German soldiers on all fronts and theaters of combat operations for the period from September 1, 1939 to January 31, 1945, including the dead, missing and captured, amounted to 4.4 million people. Of these, 3.5 million were on the Eastern, or rather, the Soviet front, i.e. in battles with the Soviet Union. (Percy Schramm. War Diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht: 1940 – 1945. 1961 г.). The treacherous attack on the USSR was the Führer’s fatal mistake. However, it was no less a mistake of London, which hoped to carry out its plans for the “Drang nach Osten” with Hitler’s help. They failed to do what was recorded in the act of unconditional surrender of Germany on May 9, 1945 – added Valentin Katasonov.
Max Bach
