Jochen, I call it as I see it. See how your repressive Nazi tendencies popped straight to the surface? <I see on CNN German soldiers on the march through the night carrying flames on sticks in their Nazi-looking uniforms. They are celebrating their elections or something.
What is it with your Germans-Nazis obsession? >
"What is with..." implies the person is beyond the pale and "obsession" says the person is obsessed. Having a belief based on experience and knowledge which one recounts only occasionally when confronted with another example and commenting on it as a warning is hardly an obsession. Those who opposed Adolf in the 1930s weren't obsessed, they could see the Panzers lining up to drive over them.
What is it with you and your obsession about my comments?
If you read the last 100 of my posts [click on my name to get them], I don't think you'll find more than 10% of them are ranting on about German Nazi tendencies.
You can't count posts about China's 50th celebrations and general political demeanour as being Nazi-like. The Nazi style is not a German patent, it's pandemic to a greater or lesser extent around the world. Germans, being orderly, efficient, disciplined and generally teutonic raised it to a fine art using significant intellectual wherewithal to conduct their operations, which made it all the more scary because it wasn't just the more chimpoid among us going ape in a wanton way.
You will find posts from me on the substantial authoritarian nature of the USA and I am more worried about where that is leading than I am about Germany, which has got a worryingly large horde of unemployed who would look excellent in black uniforms with military insignia. The devil finds work for idle hands.
I am also somewhat interested in Germany because three times in a century they have rampaged murderously across the landscape directly affecting my family. Ironically, as happens in human affairs, there's a bit of teutonic in me via the Bongards who were apparently German [my maternal teutonic ancestors' genes married my French and English forbears - Romeo and Juliet/Fiddler on the Roof wasn't just a nice story].
I've always wondered if they would do it again. My experience of people [and animals] is that they have a nature and they more or less manifest it as circumstances arise.
<There's a lot more parading going on in the USA yet I haven't seen you calling them Nazis. Don't bite the hand that feeds you? > There's more than a little German influence in the USA, but it's a bit of a melange and doesn't seem to get traction though they have conducted a LOT of military actions and have quite a military, belligerent, authoritarian mindset for all their cant about freedom and individualism.
New Zealand too has worrying tendencies with a burgeoning state and Big Brother socialist authoritarianism. But we lack Panzers to have an effect on outside countries. Helen Clark is planning on taking over the UN when she has finished with NZ [I think though that hasn't been stated] and that's a way of spreading the socialist Bossy State pathology.
Even if David Irving does dispute that there were gas chambers at Auschwitz [which I doubt he does - have you got a quote from him, not somebody else?] so what? I don't think that's a crime. Come to think of it, I deny it too. I've visited Dachau's memorial and the Holocaust Museum but forget the details. I've read stuff and seen lots of photographs, but can't actually specifically recall evidence that Auschwitz had gas chambers.
I am long enough in the tooth to know that people lie to make their case, or they are simply wrong having misunderstood.
I can't actually say that there were gas chambers in Auschwitz. It would be quite a slander for me to say so about the nice villagers of Auschwitz and lovely German people if I don't have evidence, which I don't. Right now, I'd have to start scavenging around hoping to find direct evidence that there were in fact said gas chambers. I'd have to deny that there were as one couldn't think that Germans could do such a horrific thing so out of human experience. Do you really think Germans are up to that sort of thing?
Good grief! Are they really that bad? Has Germany caught those who conducted those operations and how many thousand people do they have investigating such alleged vast crimes to ensure the perpetrators are all caught before they die?
I haven't heard of Germans trying to catch them, so I can't believe there were any. Out of respect for the Great Gentle German people [GGG] I'd deny it too. Heck, one wouldn't want to be caught up in such a racist fantasy. That medieval-looking military parade in black regalia was also just pretend, not real.
Back to ranting,
Mqurice
PS: Yes, it is 3am and I'm awake with a spot of insomnia; subconsciously worrying about the Nazis coming to get me [NZ govt version]. |
