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Entry: Buchanan & Lukacs--Getting Personal Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/buchanan_lukacs_getting_personal#28662 Post contents: The Lucaks/Buchanan controversy is actually quite simple. The fundamental question of the Second World War is this: Who was the real enemy of World War Two? Hitler or Stalin? Mr.Lucaks wishes to believe, for reasons of ethnic self-interest, that it was Hitler. He also wishes to downplay, again for reasons of ethnic self-interest, who was running communisn in Russia. There are indeed similarities between Mr. Buchanan's position and that of English historian David Irving. Both emphasize that Hitler had no aggressive intentions against Britain and her Empire. As to the much debated question of how many Jews actually died in the Second World War and by what methods, it might be more appropriate to remember the much greater number of victims of communism in Russia-and the distinctly un-Russian features of the gulag commissars. Mr. Buchanan's book is stirring up extreme controversy because it gets dangerously close to the real issues lurking behind the standard historiography of the Second World War. That is all to the good. Let no one accuse Patrick Buchanan of pro-Nazi attitudes or anti-semitism in disguise. There are many hard truths about the European conflagration which have yet to be revealed or honestly discussed. Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War is a major step in the proper direction for the average reader. Sent at: 2008 12 02