Greeks protest­ing the EU

COMMENT: We’re going to look at a devel­op­ment that is dis­turbingly evi­dent of the EU/EMU’s real­iza­tion of the phi­los­o­phy of Friedrich List, and the real­iza­tion of that phi­los­o­phy by the Third Reich in pre­war, wartime, and post-war politico/economic manifestations.

The EU has selected the ter­mi­nol­ogy of a promi­nent Holo­caust revi­sion­ist, whose ver­biage has been cho­sen to grace a World War II memo­r­ial in Europe.

Rather than deny­ing it out­right, Nolte has devel­oped a line of Holo­caust revi­sion­ism we high­lighted in FTR #235.

Not claim­ing that the Holo­caust never hap­pened, Ernst Nolte is a Holo­caust revi­sion­ist, claim­ing that it was jus­ti­fied, up to a point, because large num­bers of Jews were pro-communist.

He devel­oped this line of ratio­nal­iza­tion in, among other writ­ings, a work in which he devel­oped his hypoth­e­sis that the Sec­ond World War II was a “Euro­pean Civil War”.

It is worth not­ing that Nolte the Holo­caust revi­sion­ist was a friend and pro­tege of Pro­fes­sor Mar­tin Hei­deg­ger, the noted the­olo­gian, who had been a mem­ber of the Nazi party and defended Nazism.

Aside from the gross his­tor­i­cal inac­cu­racy of refer­ring to a global con­flict as a “Euro­pean Civil War,” the EU’s titling of its exhibit with a direct nod to the rhetoric of a Holo­caust revi­sion­ist is more than a lit­tle significant.

“Ernst Nolte”; Wikipedia.

EXCERPT: . . . . At Freiburg, Nolte was a stu­dent of Mar­tin Hei­deg­ger, whom he acknowl­edges as a major influence.[4][5] From 1944 onwards, Nolte was a close friend of the Hei­deg­ger fam­ily, and when in 1945 the pro­fes­sor feared arrest by the French, Nolte pro­vided him with food and cloth­ing for an attempted escape.[6] . . .

. . . . “Ten years later, in The Euro­pean Civil War (1987), the Ger­man his­to­rian Ernst Nolte (b. 1923) brought ide­ol­ogy into the equa­tion. The First World War had spawned the Bol­she­vik Rev­o­lu­tion, he main­tained, and fas­cism should be seen as a “counter-revolution” against Communism. . . .

“The Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sat­is­fac­tion of the Holo­caust or Other Geno­cides by Non-Extremists or Big­ots and Even by Known Schol­ars” by Israel W. Charny; theideajournal.com; July 17, 2001.

EXCERPT: . . . . .For Prof. Ernst Nolte, Hitler and the Nazis were jus­ti­fied from their point of view in killing the Jews so long as they held a belief that the Jews were threat­en­ing a major his­tor­i­cal change that would lead to “a civ­i­liza­tion of world peace” and a world gov­ern­ment. Then Nolte goes on to say Hitler and the Nazis were not jus­ti­fied because one can­not hold the Jews or any­one respon­si­ble for his­tory, but he does not say a word about the Nazis not being jus­ti­fied because they were inhu­man and evil in destroy­ing Jew­ish lives en masse. For­get­ting for a moment the issues of Nolte’s faulty his­tor­i­cal and manip­u­la­tive inter­pre­ta­tions, Nolte’s state­ments are, in effect, a con­de­scend­ing, mad­den­ing word-game on seem­ingly intel­lec­tual and his­tor­i­cal mat­ters with­out an ounce of human com­pas­sion, mercy or seek­ing of jus­tice, and with a con­stant refrain of incite­ment and honor to Nazi geno­ci­dal vio­lence. Through­out, his style is to say yes, there was a Holo­caust, and then, imme­di­ately, to rush off to celebration/respect of revi­sion­ists, cita­tions of their absurd work — e.g., the pseudo-mathematics of how the gas cham­bers couldn’t han­dle the num­ber of peo­ple they were sup­posed to and, of course, refram­ing Nazi actions intrin­si­cally as grand efforts to con­tribute to Euro­pean and world history. . . .

“WWII Referred to as the Euro­pean Civil War: the EU Can­not be Seri­ous?” by Donal Blaney; The Daily Mail [UK]; 4/18/2012.

EXCERPT: Today we learn that the Euro­pean Union (our real ruler) is open­ing a £44m museum that will be a House of Euro­pean His­tory. This van­ity project in and of itself is an offen­sive waste of money as gov­ern­ments and peo­ples tighten belts across Europe.

But what I found most offen­sive of all is that World War II is to be described as “the Euro­pean Civil War”.

That’s right: a Euro­pean Civil War that saws mil­lions fight and die in the­atres around the world in places as diverse as Tobruk, Pearl Har­bour and the Burma Railway.

What greater cal­cu­lated insult can there be to those from India, Aus­tralia, New Zealand, the United States and across the world who fought and died to defend free­dom from Nazi and Japan­ese tyranny? . . .