Link to a right wing (Dalrymple is one of the editors) conservative site, not because I agree with much of their articles, but because this story gives us insights to what is happening in the (so-called) intellectual conservative circles:

Revisionist History

All history is revisonist. A previously settled view can always be challenged by archeological discovery or by dissenting historians.
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Peter Hitchens’ The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion comes from a different tradition. It is the most striking revisionist history of the era that I know. The author is a maverick, who describes himself as a Burkean Conservative and Anglican Christian. His personal journey is from the outer Left—some years spent reporting on the Eastern bloc cured him of that—to the Conservative Party, which he left in disgust. Boris Johnson, in his view, is simply not a Conservative. His best book, I’d say, is The Abolition of Britain. He is warily respected on the liberal Left, less so by the Conservatives. His latest is an all-out attack on the national myth of World War II.

That myth is best phrased by the Prince of Wales, who said in a BBC religious broadcast (22 December 2016) that WW2 was “a battle against intolerance, monstrous extremism, and an inhuman attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe.” Other than retrospectively, that claim, as Hitchens says, is almost completely false. The war began and continued on entirely different bases of knowledge, calculation, and national support. Nations do not go to war because they disapprove of intolerance, other people’s intolerance anyway. Britain’s entry was made inevitable by the Polish guarantee of March 1939, a reaction to Munich which must rank among the most foolish and suicidal policies ever made. We could do nothing to protect or save Poland. The Polish guarantee was merely a bluff, which Hitler contemptuously called.

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My feeling is that the nostalgia for isolationism is so strong, even though like all nostalgia our memories are at best partial and possibly false, that in light of Trump, Brexit, etc. there is the urge to look back at the middle of the 20th century and think that WWII was wrong.

Not in the sense of trying to justify Hitler and Nazi Germany (though indeed neo-Nazis do try that), but in the sense that one’s country should just sit out these things, or delay interaction as much as possible.

Yes, all history is revisionist. But I have to wonder what the end game is to some revisions. Purely academic inquiry seems to not be as important as much as casting a new sales pitch for old ideologies.