Two days ago was Hitler's 120th birthday. It's surprising that people still commemorate the birthday of one who has been dead at least 50 years. But then again, people still celebrate Christmas, despite everybody knowing that's not the actual birthdate.
But what's quite ironic is that the day after, April 21st, is (apparently) the date Auschwitz was liberated, and so has now become Holocaust Rememberance Day, or
Yom HaShoah.
Now, everybody knows I have been very vocal about these issues in the past [on certain forums: mostly 4chan, since I haven't really talked about it in other places where it could be misinterpreted and I could lose a lot of respect], and since it's a very touchy topic, I haven't actually blogged about it yet. So here's THIS year's Holocaust rant, and this time, I'm not holding back. I expect to lose about 50% of my readership [which is about 2 people] and if I end up posting this on YouTube, I expect to lose about 50% of my subscribers [about 50 people], and get about five more nazis subscribing to me even though they clearly misinterpreted my videos. People are going to call me racist and/or a nazi, which usually happens anyway even when these things aren't mentioned.
Now,
I'm not saying the Holocaust didn't happen. I respect that it did.
What I AM saying, is that there are a lot of misconceptions which have gone into the public lexicon. There are a lot of things which people tend to forget or things which were made up which are often brought up in conversation. And to question these 'facts', many of which have dubious or no evidence apart from oral description [did I mention the Nazis were VERY organised and have written reports of pretty much everything] is to be a Holocaust denier, a racist, a neo-Nazi.
First of all, I'm going to talk about the unfair glorification of and favouritism towards Jews. There. I said it. The Jews get too much credit. It seems that we're not allowed to say
anything bad about Israel or the Jews because of the Holocaust. Why else do you think everyone supported Israel's merciless genocide of the Palestinians, year after year, and turn a blind eye to their war crimes, including the bombing of civilian towns and schools, and the use of white phosphorous, a substance forbidden by the United Nations?
But hey, I'm not here to talk about Israel, because that's another topic.
Click the link to the Wikipedia article for Yom HaShoah up the top of this post. Read the first fucking line.
Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGvura (יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה; "Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day"), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its accessories, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is a national memorial day.
What can you discern here?
First of all, it's notable that this specifically states that Holocaust Rememberance Day, as a holiday, is ONLY for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. What about everyone else? What about the homosexuals [incidentally nobody was interred in a KZ just for bieng a homosexual. There had to be a combination of things, such as a homosexual communist or dissenter. Ernst Röhm, head of the SA, was well known to be homosexual, although it was a lifestyle not seen as favourable by the majority of the NS creed], gypsies, Catholics, communists? There were only about four million Jews in Western Europe at the time anyway. Oh, you say, they could have imported from Eastern Europe. But they didn't, because Stalin put them in
his gulags, which killed some
twenty million people. Who do you know that can recite that statistic from rote? Who do you know that even KNOWS about Stalin's gulags? Well, that's because after the war, since the USSR helped defeat the Nazis, the UK became friends with Russia. You weren't supposed to say anything bad about them. Speaking out against their crimes was
suppressed and
covered up. George Orwell couldn't publish
Animal Farm for some
thirty years due to this, since it was considered to be offensive and critical of the Soviets.
And why the Holocaust? Sure, millions of people died, but there have been WORSE. Why don't we have a universal genocide rememberance day, instead of just one for the Holocaust?
What about the victims of
Japanese human experimentation? It was going on around the same time. Their crimes were MORE horrific than those of Mengele and his cohorts. Nobody cared because after all, Japan was the US's job. And they were doing this in China, and nobody cared about China. The Japanese sold their 'results' to the US, were let off scot-free, and resumed medical jobs in Japan. Who remembers that? No, everyone talks about Mengele. And may I mention that making people into lampshades is an urban myth. It didn't happen. It was fabricated.
What about the Armenian Genocide?
Between 2001 and 2007, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) expressed its unwillingness to attend the ceremony. The MCB instead called for a more inclusive day proposing the commemoration of deaths in Palestine, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, along with the Holocaust. [...] The latter policy has been generally referred to as a boycott, although the MCB leadership has objected to the use of that term. In 2005, Iqbal Sacranie suggested that the deaths of Palestianians should also be remembered.[2] The MCB policy of withholding participation was condemned variously by Labour MP Louise Ellman [...]
The event also drew similar criticism from the United Kingdom's Armenian community in 2000 which complained that the event remained exclusively for commemorating those who perished in the Holocaust, ignoring the critical aspects of the Armenian Genocide put into action by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Neil Frater, an official of Tony Blair's "Race Equality Unit", a branch of the Home Office replied that it had consulted the "Holocaust Memorial Day Steering Group" on the issue and agreed that while it understood that the Armenian Genocide was an "appalling tragedy", it wanted to "avoid the risk of the message becoming too diluted if we try to include too much history."[7][8] Frater went on to say that it had gone on with the Steering Group's advice to reject the Genocide, along with the Crusades, colonialism and the Boer War. Frater's comments were met with more widespread criticism, including the principal of the Armenian Evangelical College in Beirut, Lebanon, Zaven Messerlian who stated that "any serious commemoration must include the aetiology of genocide, particularly those of the twentieth century, especially if one encouraged the next."[7] The UK based organization Refugee Council also supported this position since the event was supposed to include "all victims of genocide."[9] The British government faced a flurry of criticism for its decision not include the Armenian Genocide, most notably in the daily newspaper The Independent from its chief Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk.[10] After months of pressure, the government allowed twenty Armenian survivors to attend the event in its first annual commemoration. Armenians claimed that the British government held out for so long because it wished to preserve its relationship with the successor state of the Ottoman Empire and NATO ally Turkey.[9]
They get no credit.
Let's look at another part of the Wiki article.
Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGvura (יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה; "Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day"), [...] is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, [...] and for the Jewish resistance in that period.
Jewish resistance? What Jewish resistance? Fleeing to other countries?
Speaking of resistance, the French Resistance also gets too much credit. They made up a VERY small amount of the French population. Most of the French were collaborators! In the end, what did they achieve? Rescue a few crashed British airmen?
What about the White Rose? They were far braver and more active than the French Resistance! AND they were in the thick of it, in Germany, handing out anti-Nazi leaflets, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET
And don't get me started on the Nuremberg Trials. The entire thing was a sham. Everyone on trial had no idea of the extent to which prisoners were mistreated in the KZs, or were even aware there were KZs. They were totally unaware of it. Despite prosecutors taking an oath that nothing was falsified, at least an hour of footage in a single tape was edited. And what do these poor people get for it? They're executed. For following orders in a regime they didn't know was wrong. What would you have done, go back to the Weimar Republic days when your money is so useless it's better to burn it in the street to keep warm? The prisoners were prettied up for the cameras. Given suits and the like, which were taken away after they were put back into their cells.
Anyway, that's my rant. It's not complete, but that's all I can bother to say at the moment.
Incidentally,
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the German Holocaust of World War II represents the ultimate force of evil
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