Finis Germania: Reflections on the 80th Anniversary of Germany's Unconditional Surrender

Germany's Surrender May Herald Her Death After All, Incrementally

Berlin in ruins. And this is a cause for celebration, even in Germany.

Alle wissen, was die Deutschen getan haben.  Aber fast niemand spricht davon, was den Deutschen angetan worden ist. 

May 8, 2025 marks the 80^th anniversary¹ of Germany’s unconditional surrender to the Allies and the Soviet Union. Many modern-day Germans are so deluded and so brainwashed that they actually celebrate their nation’s catastrophic defeat and ruin. The leadership of Adolf Hitler was, of course, ultimately a disastrous failure. But, as argued in “Denouncing Hitler for Very Different Reasons,” a more enlightened perspective denounces him not in the way conventional wisdom demands, but for many of the same reasons many of his best officers and generals did: for losing the war and for the immoral brutalization of certain white Europeans Slavic peoples and even the German people themselves. As that essay also sets forth, there is a fundamental distinction between the motivations and reasons why² the German people embraced national socialism and the swastika—das Hackenkreuz—on one hand and the many defects and failings of the political leadership at the top. To not condemn the Allies and Soviets for their own peculiar evils and celebrate the catastrophic ruin and devastation afflicted on Germany, replete with 80 years of occupation and cultural and linguistic colonization is nothing less than the worst fit of ethno-masochist delirium imaginable. And if the Germans do not disabuse themselves of this madness, and fast, Germany will perish, as will all of Europe.

On the left, on May 7, 1945, General Alfred Jodl signed the Instrument of Surrender in Reims, France, at Allied headquarters, marking Germany’s capitulation to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. On the right, on May 8, 1945, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed a second surrender document in Karlshorst, Berlin, formalizing the surrender in the presence of Soviet and Allied representatives. Both Jodl and Keitel were soon tried and executed.

The leadership of the Allies and the Allies way of doing things are not only as bad as the Nazis, but worse. Sacred Germany and, with the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, much of Europe is nothing more than a collection of vassal states under the American Empire. American hegemony has infused an unrelenting stream of Unkultur into the cultures and societies of Europe. English advertising and mass media are ubiquitous throughout the nations of Europe: shit music and shit culture that can hardly be called music or culture at all. Graffiti mars the cityscapes and even some landscapes of vanquished Germany. A McDonald’s stands in almost every European city, even in the most historically and culturally significant quarters of Europe’s most cherished towns and cities. Madonna, rap music, Katy Perry and an endless litany of other such dreck pervade the proverbial airwaves. A certain sort of German Tussi actively seeks out black GIs and other blacks and racial imposters who have no right to be there. And Germany and all of Europe are on an accelerated course to racial suicide and civilizational ruin. All of this is while under the heel of the United States.

Many if not all of these auspices of American hegemony pertain to Germany in particular but all of Europe generally. Unlike the rest of Europe, however, Germany has been marinating in a potent concoction of war-guilt, a program of indoctrination that began with so-called de-Nazification in the immediate aftermath of the war, culminating in decades of an ever-worsening guilt complex. That guilt complex, also known as Kriegschuld, has unfortunately become a defining characteristic of the German national character in the modern age, warped by the trauma of catastrophic defeat and ruin followed by decades-long marination in Allied propaganda and degenerate pop culture. This new programming is augmented by a reformed education system directed if not installed by the Allied victors, facilitated by modern mass media and the steady infusion of American Unkultur described above. These elements have created, in concert, a vicious cultural milieu pervading modern Germany: a cultural milieu that has programmed large contingents of the German populace to seek the very abolition of the German people, its culture, and even its language.

For these and other reasons, the defeat and capitulation of Germany is no cause for celebration, as this date may mark the slow, gradual death of sacred Germany and by extension all of Europe. In many ways, an unsustainably low birth rate far below the death rate seems planned, calculated, and perpetrated with the intentional infusion of feminist dogma, the sexual revolution, multiculturalism, and all the other auspices of a dystopia that is peculiarly American in both its origins and characteristics. In this way, it seems as if the Morgenthau Plan was never called off, it was just implemented on a more gradual timeline. This makes it all that much more pernicious as it is that much more difficult to detect. The more subtle something is, the harder it is to perceive and discern a pernicious evil for what it is. This in turn makes it that much difficult for thinkers, writers, and others to articulate on both the existence of that evil and the various existential threats it poses.

When reflecting on the 80^th anniversary of Germany’s capitulation, as with any day, there can only be sadness, particularly in consideration of how the deutsche Wehrmacht was unparalleled in heroism and fighting prowess. So too were select Waffen SS divisions that bolster the mythos behind the double sig runes: SS Panzer Divisions Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, das Reich, and Wiking in particular, but even also Totenkopf, its particularly unsavory reputation notwithstanding, were among the most formidable combat units fielded by the Third Reich. Compelled to challenge the bulk of the entire planet because of the combined machinations of Churchill, Roosevelt, as well as the mad delirium that persuaded Hitler he could somehow involve Germany in a war with three peer powers simultaneously on three fronts without leading to absolute ruin, the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS fought tenaciously to the bitter end—bis zum letzten Mal. Those fallen, tragic heroes, forgotten and defamed all too often, made it much more of a contest than seems humanly possible. In victory and defeat, the vaunted deutsche Wehrmacht was arguably the greatest fighting force in the annals of warfare. May the memory of those fallen, forgotten heroes, those tragic, fearsome formations in feldgrau³be purged of defamation and honored and revered with the respect, admiration, and awe they so richly deserve. Although one wonders at times if the Soviet Union was any greater of an evil than the American Empire, it is because of the heroism, valor, and sacrifice of both the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS that the Red Army did not march all the way up to the English Channel.

Veterans of the Wehrmacht—the great defenders of Germany—in old age. Note their elegant, debonair style of dress, even at that age. This is a testament to the cultural milieu in which they were raised.

The memory of civilian victims of both Allied and Soviet war crimes must also be honored—and never forgotten. The allied terror bombing campaigns were deliberately perpetrated to target and kill civilian populations in Germany. Such crimes are compounded by the wholesale rape and murder at the hands of the marauding Red Army, as well as the expulsions in Silesia, Prussia, and other lands east of the Oder River that forever destroyed important regional cultures that had helped defined Germania for centuries. Between some 12-14 million German civilians were displaced, with some estimate of over two million civilian deaths. This was all set in motion when Churchill and Stalin sat down at Yalta and played a little game with three matchsticks.

This and other crimes and horrors perpetrated against the German people are what modern “good” Germans in fact celebrate when they celebrate the defeat, occupation, and ruin of their own country, Being bludgeoned so thoroughly by absolute devastation and ruined, coupled with decades of intensive programming do not entirely account how so many could buy into such utter bullshit.

This ethnic cleansing coincided with the subsequent partition of what remained of Germany between the Soviet Union on one hand and France, Britain, and the United States on the other, forming die deutsche demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany) and die Bundesrepublik, also known as West Germany and the current German Federal Republic, which is nothing other than an American puppet state.

The most comprehensive map this author could find, illustrating the changes and losses of territory by various German states in the 20th Century. This map unfortunately does not depict the acquisition and lost of Memelland in 1939 and 1945. This map also does not depict Danzig as an independent city state—nor does it depict Berlin or Hamburg as independent city states.

The division of Germany is something the western allies allowed to happen; they had the atomic bomb, Stalin did not, thus giving the do-goody Alllies leverage to not allow the division of Germany to happen, to say nothing of General George S. Patton’s epiphany that they were on the wrong fucking side and fought the wrong enemy. Allied and Soviet policy alike ripped German families apart, and to the extent one believes in human rights⁴, generations of so-called “East Germans” had such “inalienable rights” violated for decades, with both Allied and Soviet blessing. Those familiar with modern German history, the history of East Germany in particular, know the legacy of die Stasi, know that the East German government coerced husbands and wives to inform on each other, know about the shoot-to-kill orders at the Berlin wall and along the border of divided Germany.

As has already been stipulated in this and other writings, there are many reasons for condemning the political leadership of Nazi Germany, but they are grossly overstated, to put it mildly, when compared with the abject lies and hypocrisy of the Allies and Soviets. Whatever conclusions one reaches about who is the greater or lesser evil in World War II and its origins, causes, and consequences, the idea that either the western Allies or the Soviets were the “good guys” is a preposterous and abject lie, made all that much more outrageous by how many people actually believe it. At the very least, the very absolute minimum compromise that can be agreed upon is that all actors are gray, with very bloody hands all around. I defiantly submit nonetheless that both the Allies and Soviets are far more insidious.

Today is not a day for celebration, but a day for mourning and loss. I weep for Germany and Europe. Those of a similar inclination should listen to a sound, competent performance of Brahm’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, as was played over Deutscher Rundfunk after unconditional surrender was announced over the airwaves. And as time is running out, I pray for a spark that will reanimate Germany with a revived national consciousness that is at once both old and new. Ich bete, daß heiliges Deutschland noch wieder erwache!

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1. Two instruments of surrender were signed. On May 7, 1945, General Alfred Jodl signed the Instrument of Surrender in Reims, France, at Allied headquarters, marking Germany’s capitulation to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. On May 8, 1945, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed a second surrender document in Karlshorst, Berlin, formalizing the surrender in the presence of Soviet and Allied representatives. Both Jodl and Keitel were soon tried and executed. Und das heißt Siegerjustiz.

2. This is discussed at length in “Denouncing Hitler for Very Different Reasons.” It is also addressed in footnote five in “On the Indoctrination of Frau Löwenherz: A Case Study of Culture as Programming“ reproduced in its entirety below:

While the German people of the time and today are undeserving of the unmitigated villainy that has unfairly maligned them, the regime—or more precisely its political leadership at the top—had a number of moral failings, not to mention a number of catastrophic strategic and tactical blunders that doomed Germany, despite the deutsche Wehrmacht being a most lethal instrument and one of the great paragons of military discipline in all history; even the greatest warriors cannot fight three peer powers on three fronts simultaneously and emerge victorious. As stated elsewhere, I am most ambivalent about the Nazi period, as I regard Hitler and those in his inner circle with a strong aversion, although this aversion diverges largely from conventional wisdom. I am deeply sympathetic to the reasons for which everyday Germans followed Hitler—without the advantage of hindsight—as I regard the Allies as bad or worse. I do condemn Hitler however, for in effect losing the war by involving Germany in a war with three peer powers simultaneously, not to mention the barbarism he perpetrated against Slavic Europeans, the Russians in particular although the German armed forces saw much barbarism perpetrated by the Russians as well from the very onset of Operation Barbarossa. Hitler also brutalized his own people, and showed callous disregard for the lives of his own men in “stand or die” orders. While in Allied captivity, Field Marshall Ritter von Leeb once stated “The excesses of National Socialism were in the first and final analysis due to the warped personality of the Führer,” to which Heinz Guderian responded, “the fundamental principles were fine.” This is an entirely reasonable position on the matter.

3. The color palette of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS was of course wonderfully varied, from pea-dot and leaf camo patterns to the black tunics of the panzer crews.

4. See Neither Inalienable nor Self-Evident: Reflections on the Chimera of Human Rights.