Candace Owens, the ever-controversial pundit whose criticisms of Israel and supposed “antisemitsm” recently resulted in her ouster from the Daily Wire, has retorted after critics accused her of spreading “Soviet propaganda” for questioning the inherent justice of the devastating firebombings of the German city of Dresden by the British and American air forces during World War II.
“Newsweek ran a piece accusing me of spreading ‘Soviet Propaganda’ for saying the bombing of Dresden was a war crime,” Owens said. “Um…who wants to tell them? Lol.”
“I literally laughed out loud at the headline. Unbelievable historical oversight,” Owens added in a reply.
Owens’ posts are in response to a piece by Newsweek, which offers a broad survey of critics of Owens’ recent remarks in a controversy over the actions of the United States in World War II.
The controversy began with Tucker Carlson’s criticism of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, the most popular podcast in the world, where the former Fox News anchor expressed his moral opposition to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Owens echoed these criticisms, adding a humanitarian critique of the allied firebombing of Dresden, which essentially flattened the historic German city in an apocalyptic blaze.
“What happened in Dresden was, is and will always be a war crime,” Owens wrote. “You’re a sick person if you believe that innocent women and children and refugees deserved to be incinerated because of a government that the overwhelming majority of them didn’t even vote for.”
Owens’ critics are not entirely without basis in suggesting the Soviet affinity for this narrative. Criticism of the firebombing of Dresden was indeed used to criticize the West by the East German state, an ally and arguable puppet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
“It is true that much of what has been thought and said about Dresden since its destruction owes a great deal to the efforts of first Nazi and then Communists propagandists,” writes historian Frederick Taylor in his book Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945, as quoted in Michael Kramer’s “The WWII Bombing of Dresden: Propaganda and Mythology.”
“This fairy tale of the Red Army as Dresden’s wholly benign liberator and savior was one small but vital part of a rapidly growing tissue of myths, obfuscations, and suppressions, which was soon to make east Germany very different from the west. To talk about the atrocities committed by the Red Army during those early months became taboo. To talk about the western Allies’ bombing of Dresden was, however, soon permitted,” Taylor continues.
However, the adoption of this narrative by Soviet affiliates is ironic and opportunistic: The firebombing of Dresden was specifically requested by none other than Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin (a man not known for his scruples about mass civilian deaths) at the Yalta conference, and the request was duly obliged by the Man of Steel’s British and American allies. Owens is perhaps too hasty in dismissing these critics merely on the basis of the U.S.S.R.’s loyalties in World War II, as the facts of the war did not prevent Communist propagandists from exploiting the tragedy for their own narrative control.
Regardless of these scruples, the incident underscores a growing trend of questioning established narratives about the supposedly heroic side of World War II, which have been increasingly challenged by pundits and intellectuals on both the right and the left.
Last month, the discourse about the moral rectitude of the Second World War went viral when AJ+, an affiliate of Al Jazeera partially funded by the State of Qatar, promoted a video calling the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a “war crime.”
“[The United States] doesn’t want to raise questions about the accepted notion of World War II as a good war,” historian Naoko Wake says in the AJ+ clip.
This development follows soon after last year’s release of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film Oppenheimer, which dedicates much of its runtime to its titular subject’s feelings of guilt for his role in the development of the atomic bomb in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
X user Lafeyette Cahill also recently highlighted criticisms of allied actions in World War II with a thread quoting the criticisms of four contemporary, well-known Americans who opposed the bombings: Dwight Eisenhower, William Leahy, Herbert Hoover, and Douglas MacArthur, all of whom expressed their disapprobation of the civilian-targeting attacks on two Japanese cities.
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