A. Royden D'souza

The standard narrative of World War II (Second Banker War), repeated in Western textbooks and commemorations for decades, places sole blame on Hitler for plunging the world into conflict—a convenient fiction written by the victors to sanitize their own crimes.

While the rise of fascism and the failure of Versailles dominate the political narrative, the true catalyst for global collapse was an economic heart attack that began in Vienna and Wall Street and spread like gangrene through a weakened world.