05-24-2016, 10:41 AM
(05-23-2016, 10:31 PM)radind Wrote: > I agree that WWII likely to have occurred without Hitler( I think
> another dictator would have emerged). It is less clear on the
> Holocaust. That took a special kind of evil.
Having studied this subject now for a number of years, I actually
don't agree with that. Genocides where one group tries to exterminate
another group by one means or another occur all the time. I have no
doubt that al-Assad would be setting up extermination camps today for
Sunnis, if he thought he could get away with it.
It's hard to know what might have happened if Hitler hadn't existed,
but we do a have a "modern day Holocaust in the making" to provide
a comparison.
The attacks by Buddhists against Muslims in 2013 were very
much like the attacks by Christians against Jews in 1930s Germany.
Here's something that I wrote in 2013:
Quote:> On Tuesday, a mob of hundreds of Buddhists descended on a Muslim
> community in Okkan, Burma, hurled bricks and set hundreds of homes
> and mosques on fire. Terrified Muslims fled to fields to escape
> the attack, and came back to find that they'd lost all they had,
> with their homes in piles of rubble. Violent attacks of this sort
> began last year in Rakhine state in southwestern Burma, and have
> been spreading to other villages, with the worst happening about a
> month ago in central Burma. Tuesday's attack brings the violence
> very close to Rangoon (Yangon), Burma's largest commercial city.
> It's hard to see how this spreading violence can continue much
> longer without spiraling into a major war between Buddhists and
> Muslims that will spread beyond Burma.
Here are some of the articles that I wrote in 2013:
** 5-Apr-13 World View -- Meiktila, Burma, violence has echoes of Kristallnacht
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e130405
** 2-May-13 World View -- Buddhist on Muslim violence continues to spread in Burma (Myanmar)
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e130502
** 3-Oct-13 World View -- Buddhist violence against Muslims in Burma/Myanmar continues to spread
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e131003
** 24-May-15 World View -- Burma (Myanmar) approves birth control law targeting Rohingya Muslims
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e150524
I believe that the situation in 1930s Germany is very similar to the
situation today in Burma.
It's really quite possible that the Holocaust wasn't even Hitler's
idea. An idea that radical would have had to have widespread support
in the upper Nazi echelons, and Hitler simply adopted the ideas put
forth by others. So it's my opinion that the Holocaust would have
happened with or without Hitler, and that Burma is on the road to a
similar Holocaust. It's also my opinion that the Holocaust was a very
common form of evil.
