WWII: British 8th Army in North Africa! (30.7.2023)

Allied (British) Forces at El Alamein, Egypt, send the German General Erwin Rommel’s troops into full retreat! The British Army of WWII was a ‘People’s Army’ – motivated by the ‘Anti-Fascist Cause’ – and was comprised of hundreds of thousands of men and women who were ‘Volunteers’ or ‘Conscripts’! This huge mass of humanity fought alongside the relatively ‘small’ (Professional) British Army – and they fought like lions! Here, British Infantry – who were out of ammunition – bravely ‘bayonet charge’ a Nazi German tank, taking the crew prisoner! I am often disappointed when I see Palestinian and Zionist articles eulogising the ‘killing’ of British soldiers in Palestine – with each accusing the British Army of supporting the other. This is particularly ironic when it is understood that both the Zionists and Palestinians – at one time or another – sided with the ‘Nazi Germans’ as Hitler was the enemy of the British!

Of course, this is a complicated business, but remember that between 1945-1947 – British soldiers were fighting and killing Zionist terrorists in Palestine (see the biography of Frank Carson, for instance). This mirrored the Soviet NKVD that was engaged in fighting the Neo-Nazi Insurgency operating throughout the forests of West Ukraine (1945-1947). When WWII was over and the British ‘People’s Army’ was disbanded – the ‘Professional’ British Army was put into the field in Malaya (by the incumbent Labour Party) where some committed brutal crimes against the fighters of the Chinese Communist Insurgency. The point is that the ‘Anti-Fascist’ Cause was a great and noble undertaking which was often complicated by the British (Bourgeois) policies linked to ‘Colonialism’ and ‘Imperialism’. My working-class family are proud that my grandparents (East and West) fought the forces of International Fascism! All you need is unbridled bravery – as can be seen in the example set by the solitary British soldier (above) who is bayoneting-charging a tank!

English Language Reference:

Editor-in-Chief David J Hogan, The Holocaust Chronicle – A History in Words and Pictures, Publications International (Louis Weber), Ltd, (2003), Page 386 – ‘The Final Solution’ (1942)