Today, 73 years ago, Hitler’s supposed Thousand Year Reich surrendered unconditionally.
The Greatest Generation defeated Nazi Germany’s forces of tyranny and oppression.
We who were born afterward, owe them a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid. When the free world was fighting for its life on the hinge of fate, their leaders almost did irreparable harm to the effort to beat national socialism.
G.I.s not only had to overcome Hitler’s war machine but liberal incompetence. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal so hobbled the U.S. economy that it took stunning reversals by FDR himself and collaboration with the very companies he had attacked to give America a fighting chance. We have assembled troubling examples of dangerous blunders that almost lead to catastrophe. Check out page four – you’ll see Hitler came much closer than he should have.