Book Review of "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning"

Environmentalism is Fascism ^ | 1-23-2017 | William Kay

[Olympiad Fisherman]

“As the new Republican administration marches the English-speaking world out of Europe’s climate crusade transatlantic relations will surely plummet. At the same time, and to the mortification of Europeans, US-Russia relations will probably thaw. After all, it wasn’t Moscow that led a 30-year economic warfare campaign against America’s energy infrastructure via the ruse of Global Warming; no, that was our old “Allies” in Berlin. Insights into European deep-state machinations can be gleaned from Timothy Snyder’s Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning – published in 2015 by the German media conglomerate, Bertelsmann ....

[yldstrk]

this is one kooky article

[Pilgrim's Progress]

I read this book and the basic premise was informative. Then I arrived at the last chapter where the author lost all credibility. He attempts to link the sentiments of pre-holocaust Europeans against the Jew to those of society that believe in the threat of climate change. He then attempts to suggest that the next holocaust will be when all the climate-deniers are rounded up and likewise destroyed.

Totally unbelievable!

[ASOC]

Last I heard the National Socialist were “Green”.

“The purpose of exploring Nazi environmentalism is not just to upset the greens. If environmentalism were a curious but peripheral aspect of National Socialism, it would be of no real historical interest.

Environmentalists could be forgiven for saying, Ah well, it just goes to show, there’s a little bit of good in the worst of us. But environmentalist ideology was not an accidental, optional-extra to National Socialism.

As we shall see, green ideas were at the *core* of Nazi thinking. The German Volk and Nazi movements marched beneath the banners of ‘Nature’ and the ‘organic’. However, what follows here is not simply a potted history of Nazi environmentalism. It is, at the same time, a brief history of early environmentalism writ large.

As will become clear, it is not so easy to draw a line between two types of green thinking.

(http://www.martindurkin.com/blogs/nazi-greens-inconvenient-history) Source, one from many pages that look at the Green movmemt within the National Socialist party.

[Olympiad Fisherman]

Yes, this is whole problem with the book. He admits Hitler’s ecological worldview rooted in Malthusian Math, which is criticized, but then turns around and gives us the same argument at the end of the book. Here is a good article posted on the American Thinker about this last year, “Yale Professor on Nazi Environmentalism: So Close and Yet so far” - http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/yale_professor_on_nazi_environmentalism_so_close_yet_so_far.html.

[Olympiad Fisherman]

The same author of the American Thinker article mentioned above wrote a book called “Nazi Oaks: The Green Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust.” It is not an easy book to read, but very well informed with piles of information on the subject - https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Oaks-Sacrifice-Christian-Worldview/dp/0692381465.