On June 7 Australian time, a day later than Europe, I started watching the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers for what must be my fifth tour. It tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 101st Airborne Division during World War Two: from its jump into Normandy on D-Day June 6 1944, to the end of the war in Europe less than a year later. It’s a dramatic masterpiece that rends my heart every time.

The 81st anniversary of D-Day this year gave me the impetus to watch. I was also retracing the timeline of the Normandy landings online. Then something strange happened.

I began to doubt what WW2 stood for. I posted my thoughts on Facebook which I provide below. But for the first time ever it hit me, that in the space of our current decade, the world had changed. For what once seemed certain to me as a student of WW2 had been thrown into the air.

Until October 7 2023 when Hamas attacked Israel with the greatest loss to World Jewry since the Holocaust, I thought I knew what modern warfare was all about.

And until January 2020 when the first pandemic signs of Covid-19 started killing millions across the world, ongoing today, I thought I knew what being a human was all about too.

But these two events only now suddenly made me question why we ever fought WW2 at all.

Today, with Covid denial continuing in politics, the media and in people’s behaviour—and with lies about Palestinian “freedom fighting” camouflaging a business enterprise called “Palestinianism” that has made Palestine’s political “leaders” billionaires, I’m numb.

Nothing makes sense today.

In the Band of Brothers story we learn that Easy Company became part of Holocaust history. In 1945 it stumbled on a Nazi concentration camp in Landsberg, Bavaria.

Landsberg, once the site of Hitler’s early career imprisonment, was also the place of an arbeitslager, a forced labour hell hole, part of a satellite camp network under the oversight of the notorious concentration camp at Dachau.

According to a Bavarian enquiry after the war, 45,000 Jews died in this 11-camp network (a further 30,000 victims of all backgrounds died at Dachau)—either worked to death building German rocket-powered Messerschmidt 262 jet-fighters, or tortured, starved, or shot.

Easy Company bore witness to the finality of what antisemitism and ethnic bigotry meant. In 2017 Landsberg was an itinerary stop on the US National WW2 Museum’s Easy Company tour. Most importantly, the 101st Airborne remains an operational part of the US military, meaning its legacy at Landsberg in the fight against tyranny lives on.

Yet what has become of the causes that Easy Company, and all forces comprising the Allies of WW2, fought for?

Here’s where I am lost.

What is tyranny in our 21st Century if denying the right to human health and freedom from bigotry aren’t paramount when defining it?

How do we remain true to the sacrifices of those millions in uniform who fought a war against hate, of which Easy Company was once part?

Today we are too free with our language—misappropriating it for hate is now a profitable venture.

So, we hear the word “genocide” thrown around when its legal meaning post-WW2 came from the belief that the Jewish Holocaust must never again be repeated.

The grifters then throw around that very capitalised word “Holocaust” itself, accusing Israel of its perpetration in Gaza. These profiteers know fully well that the term refers to a purposeful, state-run, “Final Solution” for the eradication of an identifiable religious population: the Jews.

And they then say that “rape” is a legitimate weapon of “resistance”.

What has our world become if we aren’t fighting against these deliberately misused words as lies and minimisations supporting organised global anarchy and terror?

Thoughts on WW2: Posted by Adam Parker, Facebook, June 7 2025, 7:29pm

As we followed along with the story of D-Day June 6 today unfolding as it did 81 years ago, those of us in Gen X, who have been weaned on the history and the Hollywood of WW2 may be wondering whether it still holds any relevance in our lives. And that is a shock to me.

D-Day brought the beginning of the end—the Great Crusade to rid the world of Hitlerism and Nazism. It brought immense sacrifice, immense industry, and revealed the immense horrors of racism and antisemitism uncovering a Holocaust of Nazi ideological design.

Yet, today, the English Channel is the source of invasion from France into the UK by an army of undocumented military-age extremists whose Islamist policies mirror those of the Third Reich. Much of Europe has been victim from the Mediterranean the same.

Worse, this has been engineered by appallingly weak western politicians (the former Allies) who now espouse radical Marxist agendas, far removed from freedom and the rule of law.

What then did our armies of D-Day fight for: That brazen antisemitism would be delayed 81 years? That Islamist crowds would praise Hitler? That Hitlerite Palestinian and Red terror organisations would roam Europe’s streets?

What was it all for?

I sit and wonder, does WW2 hold any lessons for us any more? I truly hope so.

© 2025 Adam Parker.
Picture credit: Travel brochure excerpt “Easy Company: England to the Eagle’s Nest”. © 2017 The National WWII Museum.