- 29 May 2017 09:02
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It's not ad-hominem-discussion just to show how the postwar German politics evolved. Now they call the Islamist Arab Palestinian cause "progressive" and liberal. But they fought for this cause even when they were Fascists and Nazis. "Nazi Germany presented itself both as an ally of Arab anti-imperialism and as a soul mate of the religion of Islam as it understood it. " What changed?
https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Propaganda- ... 0300168055
Nazi propaganda also accused the Jews on... racism. They were not "racists" apparently. They were cutting edge anti imperialists. Nothing really changed in the German postwar political culture. It's important because after the war many fundamental truths were blurred.
Herf sums up his study of the diffusion of ideology
These shared "affinities" was called after the war, "liberals". Remember Merkel and her advisors who let in Muslims hordes are not "left". The sympathy for Muslim cause is fundamental and is the legacy of Nazi era propaganda. After the war diplomats, professors and journalists still held their posts.
https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Propaganda- ... 0300168055
In Europe in the early years of the cold war, opposition to Communism offered an umbrella under which some former fascist and Nazi sympathizers succeeded in changing political colors by obscuring details of their biographies in order to be born again as Western democrats. (Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Jeffrey C. Herf)
Nazi propaganda also accused the Jews on... racism. They were not "racists" apparently. They were cutting edge anti imperialists. Nothing really changed in the German postwar political culture. It's important because after the war many fundamental truths were blurred.
Chapter: 4. Propaganda and Warfighting in North Africa and the Middle East in 1941,
On November 20,1941, von Neurath sent the Foreign Ministry in Berlin a draft of a leaflet entitled "War and Starvation," suggesting it be distributed in North Africa. The text was probably written by Winkler. Its purpose was to challenge the view that National Socialist anti-Jewish policy entailed an "antiSemitic" hatred and contempt for non-Jewish Semites. Its first paragraph mimicked the themes of British political warfare: the war in Europe had been "unleashed by Nazi race hatred, which regards everything that is not German or Germanic as inferior and animal-like and treats it accordingly." Although Hitler's war machine had overrun many countries, hope for resistance lay with Russia, which had formed an alliance with Britain "in order to stop the flood of barbaric Nazism." If Germany were to win this battle, "it would not only mis treat Europe. First it would oppress the Oriental peoples! The Germans still regard the Europeans as their neighbors with whom they want to remain in good standing and as human partners. However, woe to the Oriental people if they should come under the Nazis' thumb. The Germans would treat them as born slaves, according to the incredible German madness of anti-Semitism which Hitler, Himmler, and Rosenberg swear by.
The leaflet then abruptly changed tone.
The Jews' path is always crooked. Now, son of the Arabs, you are in its path. Egyptians, Syrians, and Iraqis! Now they are lying to you about Nazi race hatred and anti-Semitism. They want to capture you for their front against the enemies of the Jews. They want to separate you from those who are also fighting in your interest against the holy alliance of the English and the Bolsheviks. "Anti-Semitism," yes, it's true that this expression comes from Germany. But it comes from a time in which the Jews hid behind their "Semitic" language and had not yet been clearly recognized as the general enemy of the peoples. How stupid it is to claim that Germany today directs this concept [anti-Semitism] against the Arabs. As every child in the world knows, Jews and Arabs have no cultural traditions in common. Indeed, by instinct and history, they are separate from one another at their very core!
The German racial idea, which the Jews are trying to turn upside down, strives to advance the racially superior, that is, the genuine and true component of a people. This does not only apply to the Germans. It recognizes that every people is God given, except for the corrupt, parasitic Jewish people. It is precisely those volkisch values which lead the Arab peoples to such heights that the Germans know how to appreciate, as is demonstrated by the scholarly writings of the young German generation who feel drawn to the Arabs....
... When the young people of Egypt, Syria, or Iraq have had the opportunity to spend time in Germany as students, business people, engineers, and civil servants, they found a welcome which demolished the Jewish lie about "racism." Ah, if only all of you could be guests in this Germany! One day, Arab youth, you will face the question of your nation's essence [Volkstums] just as we have. It is up to you to decide if, in light of your national pride, you want to remain free from alien blood.... In any case, Germany will not adopt any prejudices toward you as a result of Jewish lies! Rather, Germany takes part in your struggle against the English and the Jews with warm sympathy and, God willing, soon with more than that.
Herf sums up his study of the diffusion of ideology
The German officials who had worked with the pro-Nazi exiles in Berlin did not do too badly after the war. Indeed, they played key roles in the reconstruction of the West German diplomatic corps dealing with the Middle East.
These shared "affinities" was called after the war, "liberals". Remember Merkel and her advisors who let in Muslims hordes are not "left". The sympathy for Muslim cause is fundamental and is the legacy of Nazi era propaganda. After the war diplomats, professors and journalists still held their posts.
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