“For what happened to the Jews of Europe,” Patrick Buchanan writes in Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, “Hitler and his collaborators…bear full moral responsibility….But was the Holocaust inevitable?”

the destruction of the Jews was not a cause of the war but an awful consequence of the war….With no war in the west, all the Jews of Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Greece might have survived…as the Jews of Spain, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland survived.

Victor Davis Hanson and Christopher Hitchens beg to differ.