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Please begin by reading Richard Koenigsberg's epigram at the bottom of this page:
The conventional view is that the death camps and Holocaust were ways of isolating Jews from the German people. Precisely the opposite is true. Hitler believed that Jews did not have the capacity to bind to a nation-state, and therefore were incapable of performing the most fundamental obligation of a citizen: to die or sacrifice one's life for a country.
German soldiers, role models, had vowed obedience unto death. They embraced the essence of citizenship: willingness to die for the nation-state. The Holocaust was undertaken to redeem the Jew by compelling them to become obedient unto death. By dying for the country--they became like German soldiers.
THE HAMMER
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"Bringing Jews Back into the Fold"
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Hitler believed Jews were unique. Unlike other races, Hitler imagined that they were unwilling to bind to a nation-state. He imagined that this characteristic of the Jewish race—inability to bind to a nation-state—was genetically given, and therefore unalterable. On the other hand, Hitler believed that people became human beings only by virtue of their capacity to live and die for a nation-state. The Holocaust brought Jews back into the fold. They too would die for a nation-state.
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