Four Ways To Deny That World War II Was the ‘Good War’

Four common ways of denying the ‘Myth of the Good War.’

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Those who deny the Myth of the Good War—the belief, described in my previous essay in this series, that World War II is a distinctively, perhaps uniquely, good war—fall, I think, into four broad categories.

One: A Plague on Both Your Houses. The serious writers who say explicitly that there is no moral difference between the Allies and the Axis are few and far between.