Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions: The Mass Murder of Jewish Civilians, 1940-1942 by Ian Rich – Published May 3rd 2018 by Bloomsbury Academic

No Polokaust Negationism: Nazi German Attitudes To Poles and Jews Were Very Similar. Nazi Killers Reject Religion: Do Not Blame Christianity For the Holocaust

This work is largely Judeocentric, and its primary focus is the Holocaust by Bullets. However, there are other interesting details, and these are the subject of my review.

NO DUALISM BETWEEN NAZI ATTITUDES TO POLES AND JEWS 

In the western world, we have the mystification of the Holocaust, and the Polokaust is barely even mentioned. We sometimes hear the Holocaust supremacist talking point that, whereas the Jews were killed simply because they were Jews, the Poles had to “do something” before the Nazis would kill them. In contrast to such negationist nonsense, scholar Ian Rich realizes that:

“The German soldiers, policemen and civilian administrators that entered Poland in 1939 and 1940 had long been exposed to historical stereotypes of Poland as a ‘backward’, ‘hostile’ place in habited by racial inferiors.” (pp. 75-76).

In a face-to-face victimhood competition, Poles may perhaps not quite measure up to the Jews in terms of being racial enemies of the Third Reich, but they are close. Smith comments, “Connected to the portrayals of ‘backwardness’, Poles and Jews were couched as racial ‘others’, as natural and dangerous enemies of the VOLKSGEMEINSCHAFT.” (p. 76).

NAZISM ANTI-CHRISTIAN. THE NAZI GERMAN CAREERISTS REALIZED THIS

Author Ian Rich described the rank and file of German Battalions 304 and 314, and the attendant near-incompatibility of their service with religion, as follows, “The majority of the sample, 66 per cent, described themselves as being GOTTGLAUBIG (God-believing). As Herbert Ziegler also found in his study of SS personnel files, most of these men who listed themselves as God-believing left the church they had been born into just before joining the SS and police knowing that, although NOMINAL church membership was tolerated in the SS, it could be a disadvantage professionally. These young men were clearly mindful of a future career in the SS when they joined the police in 1939 and 1941.” (p. 42; Emphasis added).

This is ironic to the usual attempt to blame Christianity for the Holocaust. We instead see that not only did the Nazis fail to promote Christianity, but that even nominal Christianity was barely compatible with being a serious Nazi!

The fact that 34% of the SS personnel lacked even a nominal belief in God raises other questions. Were atheists in the SS, at 34%, relatively more common than in German society as a whole?

Furthermore, the Nazi view of Christianity was almost identical to that of the militant atheist. Author Ian Rich cites the notes of Lochbrunner, who was one of the participants in the Jew-killing battalions, as he comments, “On his copy of the learning materials Lochbrunner marked this passage in the margin as particularly notable: ‘National Socialism is founded on the notion of honor, Christianity on the concept of fear, Marxism on the notion of envy.’” (p. 59).

NO BUILT-IN NAZI OBSESSION WITH KILLING JEWS: THE HOLOCAUST DEVELOPED LATE 

For nearly the first two years of WWII, the Germans were content to murder Jews on a sporadic basis. Then came the Nazi German invasion of its erstwhile Soviet Communist ally. Author Ian Smith realizes that the mass shootings of Jews on the new Eastern Front were, for the first six weeks or so, limited to Jewish men of military or reproductive age: Not until August 27, 1941, were they expanded to target all Jews regardless of age or gender. (p. 123). Because of this, most Holocaust scholars now believe that no predetermined plan to kill all Jews had existed before the start of Operation Barbarossa, but only developed sometime later. (p. 201).

Thus, the case for the functionalist, as opposed to intentionalist, interpretation of the origins of the Shoah, keeps getting stronger. It also reinforces the fact that, just as Nazi policies against Jews could radicalize with time, they could also have radicalized against Poles, given more time.

The death toll of the Holocaust by Bullets is as follows. Ian Smith cites Alexander Kruglov, who estimated 2.7 million Jews living in Ukraine, of whom 900,000 fled with the retreating Red Army, 1.6 million who were murdered by the Germans, and 100,000 that had locally survived. (p. 93).

Jan Peczkis

• Source: GoodReads.com , February 14, 2019

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2 comments on “No Polokaust Negationism: Nazi German Attitudes To Poles and Jews Were Very Similar.”

1. Mieczysław Sylwester Kazimierzak

   February 22, 2019

   

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2. Robert Jarosz

   February 25, 2019

   

   Professor #ShlomoSand exposes the founding lie of Israel:
   ▪ “Jews are not Semites, or a chosen people, and” anti-Semitism “is a technique of global manipulation.

   Shlomo Sand, a history professor at the University of Tel Aviv, was born in Linz (Austria) in 1946. He deals with the history of ideas and the role of intelligence in contemporary society, the relationship between cinema and history, and the role of the national idea in the construction of states. He devoted a great deal of articles and books in French, English and Hebrew to these themes. Author of a loud and controversial book “The Invention of the Jewish People” (When and how the Jewish nation was invented).

   The professor overturns the myth underlying the state #Israel to expel Jews from Palestine ⬇️⬇️⬇️
   ▪Nothing like this has happened. It’s a myth. The Romans did not drive Jews out of Palestine, and # Jews did not come to Europe at all. The system of punishments that the Romans used against subjugated nations did not envisage mass displacement. The expulsion of the entire nation from its land is a very complicated operation, the implementation of which became possible only in the twentieth century along with the development of the necessary infrastructure, e.g. railway lines. Even #IIirzesza had big problems with such operations, let alone the Roman Empire. The Romans were obviously violent. They could kill many people, burn the city, but they did not drive out entire nations.

   If all this is true, then all those who see the Palestinian invaders in Palestine today gain a new, very strong argument. If there was no such event as driving Jews out of Palestine, where did the Jews go? The professor explains what happened to the Jews living in today’s Palestine ⬇️⬇️⬇️
   ▪ They still live on their land in Palestine. The descendants of ancient Jews are today # Palestinians. These people were earned after they were conquered by the Arabs in the 7th century #Palestyna. It is not surprising to them. The Arabs have announced that anyone who recognizes Muhammad as a prophet will be exempt from taxes. I think that if somebody proposed such things to today’s Israelis, probably a large part of them would also be converted to the faith of Allah.

   It also convincingly explains the existence of clusters of Jews in Africa, Europe and Asia ⬇️⬇️⬇️
   ▪ “Yes, but all these people are not descendants of the exiled Jews from Palestine at all. Not only that, in the ethnic sense, they are not Jews at all. They are representatives of various other peoples and nations whose ancestors have converted to Judaic religion centuries ago. The Jews found themselves all over the world, not because of some mythical migration of peoples, but thanks to mass conversion! Being a Jew in Europe or Africa had nothing to do with nationality. The Jews were simply followers of Judaism. Only individual people did not convert to #judaism, but – as in the case of Christianity – entire kingdoms. For example, in Yemen or North Africa. The same happened with the Khazar kingdom lying between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. In the 12th century, the Turkish people converted to Judaism began to be pushed by the Tatars and Genghis Khan to the west. They stopped in eastern Poland.

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