HansHill wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 12:10 pm
InuYasha wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 12:06 pm
So, is it justifiable to deport part of your country's population if you consider it a "threat"? If not, then the politician who does this is committing evil. If yes, then in what cases can we determine whether the threat is real?
It wasn't the greatest evil in the universe........ But it's still evil.
This is wholly unsatisfying. Jews did not have an innate, de facto entitlement to the resources and privileges of the Third Reich. This is an unsatisfactory retroactive analysis embedded with modern Liberalism that must be rejected. It was to the credit of the NSDAP that they sought ethnic homogeneity for their citizens. To forcibly remove an incompatible ethnic minority is
not evil.
I'm not an idiot, I know what you will likely counter with:
But they had their rights violated and many died due to exhaustion and disease.
Yes, but now we are just quibbling about the execution and logistics of a plan, rather than the morality of the plan itself. I agree its very regrettable that entire populations were lost to starvation, disease etc, and I also find it regrettable that many others were deployed as what may be considered slave labour: But again this is not the same conversation as wanting them removed, and is merely a comment on execution and logistics.
"Germany for Germans" is not an evil statement. "Germany for everyone" is evil.
I am not looking at the situation from the perspective of the average person in 2025, but from the perspective of humanism - a concept that has existed for quite a long time in history.
I just don't want to turn a blind eye to obvious morally evil actions like deportations. It's worth providing some context.
The actions of the AH are not a unique evil. I suppose to some extent that anti-Jewish sentiment may have been caused by the declaration of "war" on Germany by international Jewry in 1933 (war in quotes here, since international Jewry is not a country or coalition of countries). Before 1935, there were no organized anti-Jewish measures in the Reich, so perhaps such calls for a "boycott of the Reich" could have worsened the situation. Ironically, the actions of some particularly zealous figures overseas may have provoked the loss of Jewish civil rights.
I do not intend to place the blame for inhumane or illegal actions solely on the Germans. After all, it was Roosevelt who gave the order to deprive Japanese Americans of all civil rights and sent them to concentration camps until the end of the war.
Why doesn't Japan protest this obvious injustice? Why are they silent about the nuclear strikes on civilians by the US Air Force? By that time, the concept of "Crime against Humanity" had existed for several days (IIRC, the charter of this whole circus-tribunal in Nuremberg was adopted several days before Nagasaki). Why didn't the Allies judge themselves? The answer is obvious: Japan lost the war and lost its independence. There is no one to speak out for the Japanese.
Also, at least before WWII, Hitler and the Nazis contacted Zionist figures in order to facilitate the emigration of Jews (the Palestine plan). The plan was thwarted even before the war, since the British Empire refused to accept Jews. Which is strange, considering how "concerned" the Allies were about their situation after the war and the destruction of the Reich.
All the same, the imprisonment of people who did nothing wrong (I don't mean overseas rich provocateurs of Jewish origin) in concentration camps and their subsequent deaths from hunger and disease, or from hangings and shootings - this is terrible, both by the standards of 1945 and 2025. It would have been better if these people had peacefully left Germany and remained alive and unharmed. It is strange that democratic England and America did not want to accept the victims of the National Socialist regime.
It seems that before the war they did not care, and after the war they suddenly "cared" about the fates of the dead. This seems odd if you accept the narrative of the absolute moral superiority of the Allies over the Axis, but it makes sense if you accept the revisionist interpretation that they wanted to blame all generations of Germans and make Germany a vassal puppet state forever.
As for the Allies, I believe that if they won, they should have played fair. By giving Germany, Japan, Italy and other continental European countries genuine independence after the war and the fall of their national socialist and fascist regimes. And not allowing half of Europe to fall under communist rule. On the Soviet side, if they considered themselves "liberators", they should have taken into account that the East Germans, Hungarians, Poles, Czechs and Romanians did not want communism, and allowed them to choose the government they wanted.
For example, in 2008, when Russia won the war against Georgia, the Georgians were allowed to remain independent and choose any government they wanted.
Of course, this is all wishful thinking. The Allies did not reject all peace talks and offers in order to suddenly sincerely advocate for freedom for all people and give them the right to choose.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
(c) JFK