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Politics - The fight for human freedom - Fascism


  Racism

Evil exists

Nazi Germany

The German butchers

Non-German collaborators

Axis Japan

Nazi Croatia

Tito's Yugoslavia

Modern Serb fascism

Christianity and the Holocaust

Judaism

Old anti-semitism (Christian, Nazi)

Modern anti-semitism (Islamic, left-wing)

Islamic Fascism


Fascism

Fascism and communism were the two great killers of innocents of the 20th century. Based on the ancient but unscientific idea of ethnic or tribal purity, fascists gassed, shot and burnt millions of innocent men, women and little children. Such ideas of ethnic, tribal or religious supremacy are still alive today - notably in Islamic Fascism, which is Nazi fascism's true heir in the modern world.

Scepticism is our best weapon against the powerful memes of racism, tribalism and totalitarianism.



Women and children being rounded up for extermination by the Germans, Warsaw, 1943.

The boy has been identified as 7 year old Tsvi Nussbaum, who had already had his parents and brother murdered by the Germans. After the roundup, he was sent to the Bergen-Belsen death camp in Germany. He nearly died, but eventually survived the war and escaped to freedom in Israel and America. Though there are some questions about whether this is him.

The animal on the right with the gun pointing down has also been identified. He was 31 year old rapist and mass murderer Josef Blösche, SS butcher of innocents in the Warsaw Ghetto. He was captured in East Germany in 1967 and executed.

To The Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up, by Peter L. Fischl.



Racism


Anti-racism - Why did Europeans and Asians invent everything?


Racism is unscientific


Racism is pessimistic


Racism is genocidal

Racism is not the only genocidal philosophy on earth - communism and Christianity and Islam have also killed millions of innocents. It is, however, obvious how racism leads to genocide, whereas it is perhaps (only slightly) non-obvious how communism and religion lead to genocide.


Evil exists

Evil exists. Evil is a word we can still use, indeed the only proper word to describe many ideologies and regimes in the world.

Modern sophisticates laugh at the terms "The Evil Empire" or "The Axis of Evil". But if regimes like The Soviet Union or Saddam's Iraq or modern North Korea are not evil, then "evil" has no meaning as a word.


  

The famous, almost biblical, picture of the German soldier shooting a woman and child.
From here. Copies here and here.
This photograph was sent home through the mail by a German to friends or family. He was clearly proud of his actions. On the back was written "Ukraine 1942, Jewish Aktion, Ivangorod".

To me, the mother, as she tries desperately to protect her baby, represents everything good, everything beautiful about humanity.



WW2 - Nazism and the Holocaust

Thankfully, everybody civilized accepts the existence of the Nazi holocaust, and it is now well documented and has no defenders.

Everybody knows that the mid-20th century Germans systematically tortured and killed millions of ordinary, innocent and defenceless men, women, children, toddlers and babies. Everybody knows that they shot, starved and gassed millions of innocents in scenes from hell. Everybody knows that these monsters systematically slaughtered European Jewry for no reason.

So I don't need to provide so many exhaustive links here, as I do with the holocausts that are denied. Instead I will try to link to some uncomfortable things, such as the origin of the Germans' barbaric beliefs, its relationship to Christianity, the ordinary nature of the tens of thousands of genocidal killers, non-German collaboration, and Catholic Europe's neutrality.


  

The German butchers



Non-German collaborators

I could link forever to atrocities committed by the Germans and their many collaborators in countries all across Europe. It is important in particular to link to information that is generally denied, and lessons that are not widely drawn.




Axis Japan



Nazi Croatia - Catholic genocide

Croatia in WW2 was a Roman Catholic Nazi state, that killed an estimated 700,000 Serbs and other minorities with the enthusiastic support of Roman Catholic priests, nuns, bishops, the hierarchy and the Vatican, some of whom (notably the Franciscans) even participated in the killing.



Flawed sites

These rather flawed sites may have unpleasant agendas (anti-Catholic extremism, pro-Serb extremism) but may still contain some useful information about WW2 Catholic Croatia.



Tito's Yugoslavia - socialist democide



Modern Serb fascism - socialist / ethnic democide

Despite all the attempts to "never forget" what the Nazis did in WW2, it did happen again, of course, and in Europe too. Perhaps it was predictable that a country who always saw themselves as victims (just like Germany) would be the ones who would become Nazis themselves. Modern Serb fascism led to the killing of perhaps 200,000 innocent civilian men, women and children in 1991-9 (estimates are for 300,000 dead in all the Yugoslav wars, including military dead).

Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Kosovan Albanian Muslims contributed to the democide and ethnic cleansing too, but the majority (*) of the democide in this period was carried out by Serbs. It is hard to remember, but the Serb Orthodox are meant to be yet more Christians.



The wars

  1. The Croatian war (and here), 1991-95.

  2. The Bosnian war (also here and here), 1992-95.

  3. The Kosovo war (and here), 1996-99.


Socialism and Christianity are no innoculation against fascism

Why so selective? Why not link to all atrocities in the Balkans in the 20th century (which involves just about everybody)?

I wanted to make 2 points - that the Croat fascist state of WW2 was fully supported by the Roman Catholic church, and that the modern "socialist" Serb state was more correctly described as fascist. Socialism is no innoculation against fascism. Neither is Christianity.

Years of Tito didn't make former Yugoslavs refrain from neo-fascist genocide. Quite the opposite. And centuries of Christianity didn't make Croats and Serbs refrain from murdering the innocent. The only innoculation against fascism that works is not socialism. And it is not Christianity. It is democracy.





Trailer for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, the movie of the book.
And search and search.
The film and the book are so simple, could easily be criticised, and yet they work.
The book is perhaps the best book I have ever read on the Holocaust (and I have read a lot of books on the Holocaust).
Every child in the world should read this book.





Christianity and the Holocaust



"People fainted, children cried. In short - Judgment Day. People were thirsty, and there was not a single drop of water around ... Then ... it started pouring. The rain didn't stop. ... We reported for selection at 4 o'clock. Mom, Dad and my little brother were sent to group 1, and I was sent to 1a. I walked as if I were stunned ... The weirdest thing was that we didn't cry at all ... Later on, I saw many more disasters. I can't put it in words. Little children were lying on the wet grass, the storm raging above our heads. The policemen beat them ferociously and also shot them. ... I saw how a soldier tore a baby, who was only a few months old, out of its mother's hands and bashed his head against an electric pylon. The baby's brain splashed on the wood. The mother went crazy."
- Extract from diary of Polish teenage Jew Rutka Laskier, describing a selektion at Bedzin, Poland, on 12 Aug 1942.



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