[RLK]

Interesting read.

[lelio]

Bump for later reading. Thanks for posting.

[timpad]

Bump for later, and thanks.

[archy]

Lousy title, though.

[LS]

"So some may think that destroying Israel is legitimate and some may think otherwise. Some may think that Israel is an apartheid colonial settler state based on a racist ideology, and some may have a different opinion. There are two sides to the question. Through such a "free exchange of ideas" we will all prosper intellectually. This brings to mind Hannah Arendt's observation, when she visited Germany in 1950, for the first time since she fled the Nazis, that the Germans viewed the extermination of the Jews as a matter of opinion: some said it happened, some said it had not happened. Who could tell? The average German, she wrote, considered this "nihilistic relativism" about the facts as an essential expression of democracy. "

This is the nub of it.

[xJones]

It is that when you see a Nazi, a fascist, a bigot, or an anti-Semite, say what you see.

Yes, but he left out communists. Stalin, for instance killed more people than Hitler and was an anti-semite also. He had a lot of Russian Jews killed along with millions of others. Communists are dangerous critters when in power. He listed fascists, but not communists. Oh well.

[Eva]

My husband has been reading a book called, The American Axis, about Americans that collaborated with Hitler.

This is a paper written by Henry Ford about the danger of globalization by the Jews, The International Jew. As you can see, the Ford foundation continues to advance his dispicable anti-Semitic agenda. The American Axis explains that Ford advised Hitler on how to apply the principles of assembly line production to the extermination of the Jews.

Another interesting link that further describes the Nazi preoccupation with anti-Semitism is the 1937 Nazi bookThe Eternal Jew. There was also a 1940 movie by the same title produced at the direction of Goebbels.

[TemplarAkolyte]

Anyone else find it interesting that this article was sourced from The New Republic?

[lainde]

bttt

[Verginius Rufus]

I saw Gerhard Weinberg on C-SPAN recently (a rebroadcast from 11/11/03). It was a forum about this book, but he talked about a lot of other things too, such as German ignorance of the U.S. When he was a visiting professor at the University of Bonn, which had 40,000 students, there were no courses offered in U.S. history. He thought Germans were "literally completely ignorant about this country." As a result, "the most loony notions can gain relatively easy acceptance."

In World War II, he said, the German army executed over 30,000 of its own soldiers for non-criminal offenses such as cracking jokes, overstaying leave, etc. After they invaded the Soviet Union, someone got the idea of using the Soviet P.O.W.'s as laborers...but too late. In the first seven months 2,100,000 P.O.W.'s had already been killed or had starved to death, a rate of 10,000 a day. He gave a number of other examples of stupid or criminal actions by the German high command during the war.