Germany has not learned the lessons of its Nazi past
JVL Introduction
Wieland Hoban, a leader in Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost / Jewish Voice for a just peace in the Middle East has written this necessary and welcome book ” covering everything from non-Jewish officials attacking Jews for Antisemitism to interviewing Palestinian and Israeli expats about living with German racism, German Apartheid Politics is an eye-opener for those who believe the country purged itself of Nazism.”
Wieland Hoban is also a founder member of Global Jews for Palestine, of which Jewish Voice for Labour is also a member. We have published several articles about how wrong Germany has been getting this issue and how Germany’s self belief that it has got it right on antisemitism, ie has learned the lessons of the Holocaust. It seems to forget not only that while Jewish people were the most targeted by the Nazis, they were not the only ones; more currently, it seems to have failed to learn that today’s refugees need the support that Jewish people did not get from other countries in the Nazi era.
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This article was originally published by The Battleground. Read the original here.
German Apartheid Politics Memory, Democracy and Genocide
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The Nazis learnt and got their homicidal eugenics playbook from Germany’s colonial genocide of the indigenous population of Namibia (to be followed by domination in Tanzania & Rwanda). So, it’s a bit rich for modern German elites to be supporting colonial atrocities again now. See – “From Africa to Auschwitz: How German South West Africa Incubated Ideas and Methods Adopted and Developed by the Nazis in Eastern Europe” Benjamin Madley (2005) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0265691405054218
& “Hitler’s Black Victims: The Experiences of Afro-Germans, Africans, Afro-Europeans and African Americans During the Nazi Era” Clarence Lusane (2002)
https://www.routledge.com/Hitlers-Black-Victims-The-Historical-Experiences-of-European-Blacks-Africans-and-African-Americans-During-the-Nazi-Era/Lusane/p/book/9780415932950 &
“Other Germans: Black. Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and. Memory in the Third Reich” Tina Campt (2003) http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/46523/1/6.Tina%20Campt.pdf
EVERY ONE, GERMANS INCLUDED, NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THAT MOST ZIONISTS ARE CHRISTIAN AND NOT EVERY JEW IS A ZIONIST.