Re: If Germany had slavery and no genocide it still would have been very different then the "bible belt" at that time. Slavery existed in the US before the civil war not in the 1930s and 1940s.
Political slavery lasted until the 1960s... Anyway, my point was that Nazi Germany wasn't the Gothic, monstrous abnormality it's been purported to be... Nazism was no freak regime that befell Europe out of the blue. Somehow, Hitler's concentration camps were mere EXTENSIONS to the European Human Zoo --remember:
The concept was soon adapted to events of a more political nature, such as the international exhibitions in Paris in 1878 and 1889. One of the latter’s main attractions, apart from the Eiffel Tower, was a "negro village" with 400 "natives". The third Paris exhibition in 1900, which attracted 50 million visitors, included a famous "live diorama" on Madagascar. It was followed by colonial exhibitions in Marseilles in 1906 and 1922, and in Paris in 1907 and 1931.
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This was how millions of Frenchmen, from 1877 to the early 1930s, first encountered people different from themselves - as "exotic strangers" in cages.
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They describe how visitors threw food or baubles to the human exhibits, compared their features to those of primates (a favourite occupation of physical anthropologists who were always eager to detect ape-like characteristics in natives), and burst out laughing at the sight of sick African women shaking with fever.
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The Nazis merely extended those "human dioramas" with additional villages: a Jewish village, a Communist village, a Homosexual village, a Gypsie village, etc --all complete with women and children (well, except for the homo village, of course). Now, what was wrong with that???? |
