Post by A Moose in LoveA good outline of the book. This thread is actually on topic for this NG since Canada was involved in both world wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill,_Hitler_and_the_Unnecessary_War
Written by Pat Buchanan:
'Antisemitism and Holocaust denial
Buchanan wrote that it was impossible for 850,000 Jews to be killed by
diesel exhaust fed into the gas chamber at Treblinka in a column for the
New York Post in 1990.[25] Buchanan once argued Treblinka "was not a
death camp but a transit camp used as a 'pass-through point' for
prisoners". In fact, some 900,000 Jews had died at Treblinka.[26] When
George Will challenged him about it on TV, Buchanan did not reply. In
1991, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote a 40,000-word National Review article
discussing anti-Semitism among conservative commentators focused largely
on Buchanan; the article and many responses to it were collected in the
book In Search of Anti-Semitism (1992). He concluded: "I find it
impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did
and said during the period under examination amounted to
anti-Semitism."[27][28]
The Anti-Defamation League has called Buchanan an "unrepentant bigot"
who "repeatedly demonizes Jews and minorities and openly affiliates with
white supremacists."[29] "There's no doubt," said Pulitzer Prize-winning
columnist Charles Krauthammer, "he makes subliminal appeals to
prejudice."[30] Buchanan denies that he is antisemitic, and a number of
his journalistic colleagues, including Murray Rothbard,[31][32][33]
Justin Raimondo,[34] Jack Germond, Al Hunt and Mark Shields, have
defended him against the charge.[35] As a member of the Reagan White
House, he is accused of having suppressed the Reagan Justice
Department's investigation into Nazi scientists brought to America by
the OSS's Operation Paperclip.[36] In the context of the Gulf War, on
September 15, 1990, Buchanan appeared on The McLaughlin Group and said
that "there are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in
the Middle East – the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in
the United States." He also said: "The Israelis want this war
desperately because they want the United States to destroy the Iraqi war
machine. They want us to finish them off. They don't care about our
relations with the Arab world."[37] Furthermore, on The McLaughlin Group
Buchanan has also made such comments as "'Capitol Hill is Israeli
occupied territory' and 'If you want to know ethnicity and power in the
United States Senate, 13 members of the Senate are Jewish folks who are
from 2% of the population. That is where real power is at ... '"[38]
Buchanan supported President Reagan's plan to visit a German military
cemetery at Bitburg in 1985, where among buried Wehrmacht soldiers were
the graves of 48 Waffen SS members. At the insistence of German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl and over the vocal objections of Jewish groups,
the trip went through.[39]
In an interview, author Elie Wiesel described attending a White House
meeting of Jewish leaders about the trip: "The only one really defending
the trip was Pat Buchanan, saying, 'We cannot give the perception of the
President being subjected to Jewish pressure.'"[40]
Buchanan accused Wiesel of fabricating the story in an ABC interview in
1992: "I didn't say it and Elie Wiesel wasn't even in the meeting ...
That meeting was held three weeks before the Bitburg summit was held. If
I had said that, it would have been out of there within hours and on the
news".[41]'