A minor historical controversy has been raging for a couple of weeks since Tucker Carlson had on his program a publicity-seeking historian of dubious credentials and questionable professional standards of research, Darryl Cooper, who claimed that Winston Churchill “was the chief villain of the Second World War.” His allegations were that Churchill “was primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did, something other than an invasion of Poland.” He also claims that the millions of Soviet prisoners of war who died in German captivity did so because the Nazi leadership “had no plans for POWs.” He claimed that the invasion of Russia was the result of Hitler’s fear of an imminent attack upon Germany by Stalin. Cooper denounced Churchill for declining Hitler’s peace proposals prior to the blitzkrieg in the West in May 1940 and also after the fall of France, as “the war was over and the Germans had won.” Subsequent events indicate otherwise. Cooper solemnly declared that ”Churchill wanted a war; he wanted to fight Germany… I resented Churchill so much because he kept the war going when he had no way to fight it, all he had were bombers.” Astonishingly, for a historian whose views were aired before such a large audience, Cooper announced that Churchill’s motive was based in his need for “redemption,” claiming “Churchill was humiliated by his performance in the First World War.” He went on to denounce Churchill as “childish” and a “psychopath,” a Zionist, who was bankrupt and “bailed out by Zionists.” All of this is rubbish.
