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| The rehabilitation of the Nazis continues as Politico gives National Socialism its finest makeover since "Springtime for Hitler" |
| 2023-10-04 |
| Start with the title: "Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi." The Politico Europe editor approving it was either high on glue, or finally decided yesterday to come to work in his secret Schutzstaffel uniform. No other explanation fits. Canada’s Hunka scandal is a demonstration of how when history is complicated, it can be a gift to propagandists who exploit the appeal of simplicity. They're trying as hard as they can to cover for Trudeau, that WEF puppet. In the case of Hunka, the mass outrage stems from his enlistment with one of the foreign legions of the Waffen-SS, fighting Soviet forces on Germany’s eastern front. And it’s a demonstration of how when history is complicated, it can be a gift to propagandists who exploit the appeal of simplicity. This history is complicated because fighting against the USSR at the time didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi, just someone who had an excruciating choice over which of these two terror regimes to resist. However, the idea that foreign volunteers and conscripts were being allocated to the Waffen-SS rather than the Wehrmacht on administrative rather than ideological grounds is a hard sell for audiences conditioned to believe the SS’s primary task was genocide. And simple narratives like "everybody in the SS was guilty of war crimes" are more pervasive because they’re much simpler to grasp. The SS was a criminal organization. Just look at this journalist trying to cover for these mass murderers. Reprisals against civilians. Guarding the death camps. Executing Allied POWs. Canada’s enemies have thus latched on to these simple narratives, alongside concerned citizens in Canada itself, with the misstep over Hunka being used by Russia and its backers to attack Ukraine, Canada and each country’s association with the other. There's the money shot right there. This is being used against us, ergo it's Russian disinformation. According to Russia’s ambassador in Canada, Hunka’s unit "committed multiple war crimes, including mass murder, against the Russian people, ethnic Russians. This is a proven fact." But whenever a Russian official calls something a "proven fact," it should set off alarms. And sure enough, here too the facts were invented out of thin air. Repeated exhaustive investigations — including by not only the Nuremberg trials but also the British, Canadian and even Soviet authorities — led to the conclusion that no war crimes or atrocities had been committed by this particular unit. This is just huge. It is an earth-shaking epoch change. For the corporate media to go to bat for the Nazis is unprecedented. Until last month doing this got you banned from pretty much everywhere. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has now issued an apology in his own name over Hunka’s ovation too. However, any further discussion of the error has to be carefully phrased, as any suggestion that Canada is showing contrition for "honoring a Nazi" would acquiesce to the rewriting of history by Russia and its backers, and concede to allegations of Hunka’s guilt that have no basis in evidence. It’s true that Hunka should never have been invited into Canada’s House of Commons. But that’s not because he himself might be guilty of any crime. Rightly or wrongly, on an issue so toxic, it was inevitable the invitation would provide a golden opportunity for Russian propaganda. Look how hard they're trying to debunk this as propaganda. When it IS propaganda. Pro-Nazi propaganda! We're through the looking glass here, people. |
| Posted by:Harcourt Tholuse6841 |
| #10 Meine Socken. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-10-04 15:35 |
| #9 "Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi." No but joining the SS does. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2023-10-04 14:34 |
| #8 Once we gave Lucifer a sitcom, are we really that far from Politico claiming that Nazis had good ideas but went too far? The Gates Foundation is already working on their version of the Final Solution. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-10-04 11:49 |
| #7 Using Wikipedia numbers because I'm forgetful and lazy: Seems about a quarter of Dachau's inmates died. That's a bit better than Andersonville, and more or less in line with, say, Buchenwald or Sachsenhausen (both roughly as murderous, percentage-wise, under Soviet administration as under the Nazis). |
| Posted by: Jating Spawn of the French3972 2023-10-04 10:54 |
| #6 ...well, there goes their old pejorative of call non-Marxist Nazis. We need a Forest Gump meme "and just like that Nazis were OK" |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-10-04 09:47 |
| #5 Can we get all the liberal rags that are writing nazi apologias right now shut down as well? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-10-04 09:13 |
| #4 I think this is enough to end Justin’s PM tenure at the next election. The SS is not a brand that can be rehabilitated by freshening up the landscaping. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-10-04 08:55 |
| #3 Dachau is concentration camp outside of Munich. It was not a major extermination camp. The crematoriums are there. By the records more Roman Catholics died there than Jew, Bavaria being a Catholic region. On display are administrative documents all carrying the Waffen-SS letterheads. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-10-04 07:45 |
| #2 Those old Russian hands in the attic Are wriggling and giggling, ecstatic, Up Justin's behind. Do they think that we're blind? "Comrade!" "Kamerad!" "Crazy schismatic!" [Bear hugs Methuselan wolf, masturbates] |
| Posted by: Jating Spawn of the French3972 2023-10-04 04:44 |
| #1 Repeated exhaustive investigations — including by not only the Nuremberg trials but also the British, Canadian and even Soviet authorities — led to the conclusion that no war crimes or atrocities had been committed by this particular unit. The technique of the Big Lie strikes again. It will succeed too - consider the "Palestinian Nation". |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-04 04:27 |