“Barnes dismissed his own past criticism of the World War II unconditional surrender policy as valid but superficial; for he had learned from General Albert C. Wedemeyer’s book that the murder of Germans and Japanese was the overriding aim of World War II – virtually an Anglo-American scalping party.”

—  Murray N. Rothbard

1968 https://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/murray-n-rothbard/cold-war-myths/

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