Apparently Donald Trump is not as stupid as he appears. As reported recently in multiple mainstream outlets, Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, gave a series of interviews in which he claimed that Trump not only fits the definition of a fascist, but worse, that he had, on numerous occasions, praised Hitler and Hitler’s military generals. These “stunning” interviews demonstrate once again Trump’s “descent into madness,” in the words of Tim Walz. Or as our poly-racial vice president put it, the revelations prove that “Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable.”
Or perhaps not. Let’s look at exactly what Trump is alleged to have said. In a lengthy recent story in the Atlantic, Jewish lead editor Jeffrey Goldberg attempts to cast Trump as an enemy of the military and the American military tradition. Discussing Trump’s penchant for personal obedience within the military, Goldberg quotes two unnamed people as recalling Trump saying “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. People that were loyal to him, that follow orders.”
Kelly’s own claims about Trump were first documented in the 2022 book The Divider, written by a Jewish couple, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. There it is stated that Trump allegedly asked Kelly “Why can’t you be like the German generals?” Kelly then noted, correctly, that a number of generals were implicated in various attempts on Hitler’s life; “no, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” replied Trump.
For his article, Goldberg prompted Kelly to elaborate on Trump’s view of the “German generals.” Kelly explained that he asked Trump, “Do you mean Bismarck’s generals? … Do you mean the kaiser’s [Wilhelm II] generals? Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals?” To which Trump replied, “Yeah, Hitler’s generals.” “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.”
And then we have CNN anchor Jim Sciutto’s new book The Return of Great Powers (2024), in which Kelly is again quoted in an exchange with Trump. Trump said, “Well, Hitler did some good things.” Kelly: “Well, what?” Trump: “Well, he rebuilt the economy”—which is an understatement. Hitler took a ruined and indebted German economy in the aftermath of a loss in World War One, and amidst a global depression, and in just six short years, he turned it into a world financial power. It was a true Wirtschaftswunder, an economic miracle. Kelly then adds a comment to Sciutto: “But what did he [Hitler] do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people [presumably meaning the Jews] and against the world.” In truth, a large reason that Germany’s economy flourished in the first place—exploded, really—was because Hitler systematically excluded the Jews from all economic sectors. With this corruption and malfeasance removed, the economy rapidly recovered and grew to the point where Hitler could fund the world’s greatest military power.
Kelly closed his little dialogue with Trump thusly: “Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy [Hitler]. Nothing.” And why is that?—a thoughtful person may inquire.
“Hitler’s Generals”
Since “Hitler’s generals” are cited in the present controversy, let’s take a moment to say a few words about who these men were.
Hitler had dozens of generals over the course of the war, and they typically held one of six titles: Brigadier general (lowest), major general, lieutenant general, branch general, colonel general, and then finally, field marshal general (highest). Hitler ultimately promoted 25 men to the highest level of field marshal, including Hermann Göring, Werner von Blomberg, Erwin Rommel, Erich von Manstein, and Wolfram von Richthofen. At least in the early years of the war, these men were spectacularly successful, rolling up massive gains across Eastern and Western Europe, through the end of 1942. Any rational leader would indeed love to have such men at his command.
Obviously, as the weight of the world pressed against the Germans from 1943 onward, the generals suffered increasing defeats, and several were relieved of duty. And three field marshals—Rommel, Kluge, and Witzleben—were eventually executed or ‘suicided’ for their alleged roles in plots against Hitler.
Still, by all objective accounts, these men and the many lesser generals below them were highly skilled, capable, and honorable men, and all were personally dedicated to the Führer—and not to any “constitution,” which in any case NS Germany did not have. It was this ethos of a dedication to the Führer that Trump was alluding to, and envies.
“He Missed the Holocaust”
John Kelly made one more passing comment of interest in his interview with Sciutto. Regarding Trump’s observation that Hitler “did some good things,” Kelly said to Sciutto, “It’s pretty hard to believe he missed the Holocaust.” Even if Trump accepts the standard Holocaust myth, that doesn’t mean he “missed” it; he just declined to comment on it. But in truth, Trump would have been correct to “miss” it. Based on the best current estimates, the conventional number of 6 million Jewish deaths is a vast over-estimate; at most, 1 million died, and more likely 500,000 or so. And none died in homicidal gas chambers, which never could have functioned in the manner described. Given, then, the likely Jewish death toll in the war, they accounted for perhaps 1% of the global total, which came to some 60 million people, including soldiers and civilians. At 1% of the total, the Jewish deaths are indeed merely “a footnote to history,” as Jean Le Pen once said—something easily “missed.”
Which brings us back to our inestimable vice president. The day after the news broke about Trump’s love of Hitler, Harris held a “surprise speech” in Washington—trying her best to look oh-so-presidential—in which she summoned up the mythical, magical figure of “the 6 million”:
It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Incredibly dangerous to who? One hundred years ago, unless you were a Jew, you had nothing to fear from Hitler. Yes, he looked down on blacks and Slavs and homosexuals, but that was uncontroversial at the time. Yes, he wanted these people out of his nation; after all, his guiding slogans were, in effect, “Germany for the Germans” and “Germany First!” Once in power, he gave Jews and others years to leave, and then when war came, he proceeded to force them out. Hitler literally “ex-terminated” the Jews—in the sense of ex-terminus, to expel beyond the borders. But that was his right, and his duty. And his nation flourished, until the major Western nations attacked him at the behest of their Jews.
That was nearly 100 years ago. But the same principles still hold. Today, unless you are a Jew, you have nothing to fear from a “new Hitler.” And today, unless you are a Jew, you have much to gain: a thriving economy, an end to cultural decline and degradation, true freedom of expression, and national sanity and peace.
For her part, Harris displayed, once again, an incredible ignorance (or perhaps an incredible obsequiousness) about the war: no thinking person today accepts that 6 million Jews died under Hitler. The fact that Harris regurgitates this nonsense demonstrates (a) her penchant for false propaganda over truth, and (b) the clear Jewish influence among her advisors. No one else is worried about those who “praise Hitler” except Jews and those who work for Jews; no one else is obsessed with the myth of “the 6 million” except Jews and those who work for Jews.
The fact that all our politicians, of both parties, and all our mass media, left and right, adopt the same stance proves, once again, the extent of Jewish power in America. Until that changes, nothing else matters.
Thomas Dalton, PhD, has authored or edited several books and articles on politics, history, and the Jewish Question. All his works are available at www.clemensandblair.com, and at his personal website www.thomasdaltonphd.com.
Notes
The others included Brauchitsch, Keitel, Rundstedt, Bock, Leeb, List, Kluge, Witzleben, Reichenau, Kesselring, Milch, Sperrle, Küchler, Paulus, Busch, Kleist, Weichs, Model, Schörner, and Greim. Today these men are utterly unknown among the public, but many are still studied in the US military academy.
Technically, the Weimar constitution remained in effect after Hitler took power in 1933, but the “Enabling Act” of that year allowed him to functionally bypass it, rendering it useless.
For details, see my books The Holocaust: An Introduction and Debating the Holocaust, or Germar Rudolf’s Lectures on the Holocaust.
For more on this, see my work The Jewish Hand in the World Wars.
