Chapotraphouse

Imagine if the Western Bloc lost the Cold War and we were responsible for mainstream WWII history. How would that look?

I have a few suggestions:

1. Almost everybody would know about Britain’s history of profascism, be it from the press or Winston Churchill. Nobody would get tired of mentioning how the Third Reich wanted to ally with the British Empire, how British banks extended credits to the Third Reich, how the British Empire marketed scrap and other raw materials to it, Britain’s eugenic influences thereupon, and more. Nobody would forget that Queen Elizabeth once gave a Fascist salute.
2. Nearly everybody would know about how corporate America was crucial to the Fascist war machine. Everyone would remember names like Standard Oil, General Motors, Ford, IBM, ITT, DuPont, General Electric, and elsewhat only with scorn. No-one would forget how French and Norwegian capitalists willingly cooperated with the Third Reich.
3. The ‘clean Wehrmacht’ and ‘brava gente’ lies would be gone forever. The Regio Esercito’s massacres of hundreds of thousands of Africans would be well known, as would Fascist Italy’s influences on the Third Reich’s own colonialism. Memorials for Fascist Italy’s violence against Ethiopians and Libyans would be popular. Likewise, most adults would be familiar with how Ukrainian anticommunists, Polish anticommunists, Baltic anticommunists, and other antisocialists willingly collaborated with the Third Reich.
4. Zionism would be completely discredited: Jews and other people would be well aware of Haʻavara, Haʻavara’s preference for certain Jews, the Third Reich’s funding of Herzlian settlings in Palestine, Adolf Eichmann’s supplies to the Haganah, how the Herzlians distributed Fascist products all over the Middle East and North Africa, how the Third Reich trained Herzlians to settle them in Palestine, and so much more.
5. Almost everybody would be well aware of the Greco-Italian Treaty, the Franco-Italian Declaration, Fascist Italy’s and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia’s agreement, Warsaw’s nonagression pact with the Third Reich, the Anglo-German Naval Pact, Copenhagen’s nonaggression pact with the Third Reich, the Franco-German Declaration, Estonia and Latvia signing nonaggression pacts with the Third Reich, the partitioning of Czechoslovakia, and so much more.
6. Nearly everyone would be very familiar with the proletariat’s opposition to Fascism, like how the Axis lost 280,000 tons of coal as a result of fifty thousand French miners striking, how thousands of Belgian & French workers held strikes in response to the Axis drafting them, how thousands of Belgians under Fascism went on strike for food, and so on.
7. The Third Reich and the Slovak Republic would have been blamed for either starting or aggravating the war. If 1939 were not the commonly agreed upon start of World War II, then it would be either the upper classes’ partitioning of Czechoslovakia in 1938, the Marco Polo Bridge incident of 1937, the Fascist invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, or maybe even the Imperial bourgeoisie colonising Manchuria in 1931. In relation to these, almost everyone would be familiar with the Spanish Civil War.
8. Almost everyone would be familiar with how the Western Allies fought the Axis primarily to reinforce the dictatorships of the bourgeoisie, and we would be well aware that the Western Allies bailed out Axis capitalists, failed to prosecute most of the Axis’s war criminals, hesitated to release concentration camp prisoners, did nothing to prosecute the Fascists for their crimes in Africa, reused the Empire of Japan’s system of forced prostitution, reused surviving Axis employés for anticommunism, and so forth.
9. Finally, schools’ coverage of the German–Soviet Pact of 1939 would be brief, especially in comparison with the events leading up to it and the Western Axis’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Schools would teach that the Fascists were responsible for the Katyń massacre, yet even this would receive less coverage than how the Fascists exterminated at least 30,000 Polish civilians in the Pomeranian province from October to November in 1939 alone. Similarly, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni’s meetings with Adolf Schicklgruber would be of interest only to specialists, and hardly anyone else would care about Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, much less blame him for the Shoah. By comparison, Walter Rauff would be far more infamous.