THE IDEOLOGY OF THE HOLOCAUST FOLLOWED LOGICALLY BASED ON THE IDEOLOGY OF WAR

So many gigantic books written nowadays telling the history or story of the
THIRD REICH and the Holocaust and Hitler's war against "Jewish-Bolshevism."
But why did it happen? Hitler himself told us, explained what he was doing,
understood what he was doing--better than any of the historians.

Hitler created the narrative--and then--having absolute power--brought
the narrative it into being.
Please read the passages below slowly and carefully.

Never to Forget: the Jews of the Holocaust (1991). Milton Meltzer (p. 73). “By the end of the winter of 1941-42, more than 90% of the Jews trapped by the Germans east of the Soviet border were dead. The extermination of men, women, and children did not disturb Hitler:

If I don't mind sending the pick of the German people into the hell of war without regret for the shedding of valuable German blood, then I have naturally the right to destroy millions of men of inferior races who increase like vermin.

The same quote translated in Joachim Fest’s HITLER: (1973/2002):

When I send the flower of German youth into the steel hail of the next war without feeling the slightest regret over the precious German blood that is being spilled, should I not also have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin?

What is Hitler saying here? He's stating simply that if he has the "right" to kill his own soldiers--to send them unto death without any regret--why would he not also have the "right" to kill Jews--mortal enemy of the German people.

Hitler says that he doesn't have the "slightest regret" over "shedding precious German blood." If he didn't regret shedding the blood of his own soldiers (having them die), why would he regret shedding the blood of Jews (causing their death).

In a way, he's jiving with us here, make a subtle statement about war. He's saying--that in the normal course of history--nations have no compunctions about sending their own soldiers to die. This is a convention that many people accept.

Then he turns things on their head, the jive-ass-mother-fucker as we used to say in the Sixties: taunting the world (and historians) with their own conventional way of thinking. "Well, if everyone thinks its OK to send my own soldiers to die" (and die they did in massive numbers in the Second World War), "Why would anyone make a fuss about me also killing Jews--Germany's mortal enemy."

Once one accepts the first proposition--that it is socially acceptable for a nation to send its own soldiers to die in massive numbers--then the second proposition follows logically: it's OK to send Jews to die in massive numbers. The ideology of the Holocaust followed based on the ideology of war.

Richard Koenigsberg
rakoenigsberg@libraryofsocialscience.com
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