by Mikhail
The nazification of Europe is in full swing – or, rather, there is nothing new under the sun, as the masks are off. No, no, racism and xenophobia are not tolerated in modern Europe; some of it is even a criminal offense there – except when it is directed at Russians.
People get beat up on the street for speaking Russian. People lose jobs for being Russian. Students get expelled from universities for being from Russia. Children get bullied at schools because their parents are Russian. Some restaurants deny service to Russians. A German clinic announced it will deny treatment to people with Russian and Belorussian passports. Books by Dostoyevsky and Chekhov, music by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich get banned, etc. etc., etc. Today Russians in Europe are like Jews in the Nazi Germany in 1930’s.
It’s a chance not to be missed to find unity around the idea of hatred, as the idea of European unity around peace, reconciliation and democracy (for which the EU got the Nobel Peace Prize) has not been working.
That Europe is getting united around racism/nazism is a small surprise. Five hundred years of colonialism did not go without a trace. Colonialist/racist Europe never had a problem with nazism; for a short period of time in the 20th century, when it was occupied by Germany, it only had a problem with Hitler.
It is no different today. Leopold II, who killed about 10 million in Kongo, is commemorated in monuments all over Belgium. Open racist Churchill, who starved to death millions in Bengal, is voted the greatest Briton of all time. There are annual marches of Waffen-SS veterans and their fans in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Ukraine that has become a hotbed of nazism is “in good company” there.
Consequently, Western leaders threatening Russia with “The Hague” probably realize that, with Russia declaring denazification as one of its goals in Ukraine, Europe may in fact be heading toward another Nuremburg.
Eichmann Trial 1961. full video playlist for reference
but skip to Eichmann's defense:
His Own Defense: Adolf Eichmann Trial -- Excerpt, Final Portion
notable admissions in this excerpt:
when Eichmann joined the Nazi Party 1932; the Nazis already had a “program of combatting the Jews” they had to downplay in order be win the 1932 election
Eichmann “forced emigration”; ‘desire’ to ‘voluntary’ emigrate by fear/threat
at WANSEE, the meeting Eichmann organized and recorded minutes, is the protocol for “the Final Solution,” as Eichmann recounts, where "various possibilities for killing were discussed"
Eichmann reads Himmler’s speech at Posen specifying “exterminating the Jews”; Jews were considered “a germ that had to be destroyed, just like any other disease.”
Assuming you’ve looked at evidence from Nuremberg?
here's one transcript. testimony of Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz
with this notable quote related to Eichmann: Rudolf Hoess related before his execution how he often felt weak-kneed at having to push hundreds of screaming, pleading children into the gas chambers:" I did, however, always feel ashamed of this weakness of mine after I talked to Adolf Eichmann. He explained to me that it was especially the children who have to be killed first, because where was the logic in killing a generation of older people and leaving alive a generation of young people who can be possible avengers of their parents and can constitute a new biological cell for the reemerging of this people."