The claim that tensions between those holding power in the capitalist system and the growing communist forces caused the second world war is a pretty hot take as someone who grew up in Germany. Do you have sources on professional dissemination of the facts that arrives at this conclusion? I'm genuinely curious because I hadn't heard of that interpretation yet.
Up in Canada, they shipped a few hundred Ukrainian soldiers from the second world war here who fought the Russians ... as part of a German SS army group.
Ask our country's leading politicians, they just celebrated one of these SS veterans at a public event in our Parliament.
The second world war started as a reaction to growing communism and socialism especially how it affected the wealth of the status quo. Far right fascists who wanted to destroy socialists during that war were the enemy. At the end of the war, it was more acceptable to be a far right fascist than a communist sympathizer or even to have socialist leanings.
Fascism was never a clear cut definition in that war.
It makes you wonder when and if the war ever ended.
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