07-02-2016, 09:06 AM
(07-01-2016, 02:55 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:(07-01-2016, 07:09 AM)Anthony Wrote:Quote:Oh come on, don't be naive. When a nation turns Nazi, the volk never benefit. The volk are dupes when a Nazi putsch happens.
Oh, really? Who benefited in Germany when full employment was achieved by 1936, and outright labor shortages by 1938?
Not my father's relatives, that's to be sure.
The big one, and by far the best reason to condemn Nazism. Actually there were other big ones, including Roma, Soviet POWs, political offenders, and the mentally and physically disabled. Another somewhat under-rated:
I don't know why Polish-Americans don't try to compare their relatives in Poland, the Polish intelligentsia, whom the Nazis murdered in great numbers upon the Nazi conquest of Poland to the Jews under Hitler. Dead is dead, and murder is murder, and I can't see anything different between the Nazis killing a Polish Christian for being a possible enemy of the Reich than killing a Jew. The Nazi massacre of Polish Christians is a Holocaust in its own right, even almost as systematic, and in a way I can connect the Holocaust against Poles to the Holocaust against the Jews. I must ask many people here: if a person like you were Polish and caught in Poland, would the Nazis have killed you in September or October 1939? I certainly would have been!
Had it not been for their extermination of the mind-working class in Poland, the Nazis might not have had free rein to use Poland as the main slaughterhouse for the Jews. The Nazis did not kill the Jews in place in such countries as Greece, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Norway, France, Hungary, or even Germany itself. They had to keep it secret from Germans and many occupied peoples. The Nazis did not trust the Poles to participate in the Holocaust.
Nazism was of course the purest moral pathology that ever arose in any nation, and the Nazi Party was the worst syndicate of organized crime that ever existed. It makes the Sicilian Mafia and the Russian Mafia look trivial by contrast.
Nazi Germany was still a worker's Hell. For the German working class, British, French, and American conquest was liberation.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.