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2006-12-29 India-Pakistan

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Posted by .com 2006-12-29 02:21|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I have heard Iranians say they are the original Aryan race. I have heard Sikhs lay claim to this. WTF?

Posted by JohnQC 2006-12-29 07:30|| 2006-12-29 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Any different than Che chic around any lefty ghetto in the US?

Posted by Procopius2K 2006-12-29 09:03|| 2006-12-29 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Obviously hadn't heard what happened to the Gypsies.

Posted by ed 2006-12-29 09:04|| 2006-12-29 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting Ed, The Roma or Gypsies were originally from India and of course were slaughtered en mass with the Jews. Nice post.

Posted by Rightwing 2006-12-29 09:41|| 2006-12-29 09:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Interviews with many young Indians indicated they had little idea of what Hitler actually did.

Looks like "dumbing down" ain't just happening here...

Posted by tu3031 2006-12-29 09:45|| 2006-12-29 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Country Population 1939 Military deaths Civilian deaths Jewish Holocaust deaths Total deaths Deaths/ % of population
Greece[21] 7,200,000 20,000 209,000 71,000 300,000 4.17%
Hungary[22] 9,200,000 300,000 80,000 200,000 580,000 6.3%
Iceland[23] 120,000 200 200 0.17%
India[24] 386,000,000 87,000 1,500,000 1,587,000 0.41%

They must have phueching forgot eh?

Posted by Besoeker 2006-12-29 09:53|| 2006-12-29 09:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Besoeker, Link? Point?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-12-29 09:58|| 2006-12-29 09:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually, an Indian I work with (he's Jain...a off brand of Hinduism) claimed this to me recently too (that Indians were the original Aryans). Most be some talking points coming out of somewhere. He added too, that the Swastika was a religious symbol of good luck to them too (didn't mention the part about it being "tilted" for the Nazis' symbol).

I thought us in the AWGSG (Angry White Guy Support Group) there in our our breakroom (a coffee club for us conservatives) were all gonna hit the floor. And, this guy has been in the U.S. for more than 30 years, so he knows what Hitler was all about.

Posted by BA 2006-12-29 10:20|| 2006-12-29 10:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Can't wait till they open the Reggie Dyer Pub next door.

Posted by DMFD 2006-12-29 10:41|| 2006-12-29 10:41|| Front Page Top

#10 I think the tracing of aryan lineage to india was one of the results of 1930's reich science - I don't have a feel for the correctness of it. Aryan in this context would be separate from Nazi, the latter being a pro-aryan AND exclusionist party.

I think you can give some credit to Adolf for the autobahn, volkwagen, bringing germany out of recession, and some incredibly good lessons in "scarcity management"

Adolf unified germany, and made it undeniably strong. Of course none of these accomplishments balance out the death camps.

On a side note:
Is it just me, or does that "hand on the hip" make uncle Adolf look extremely gay?

Posted by flash91 2006-12-29 12:57|| 2006-12-29 12:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Is it just me, or does that "hand on the hip" make uncle Adolf look extremely gay?

You. Seek counseling ;-)

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-12-29 13:01|| 2006-12-29 13:01|| Front Page Top

#12 I believe Hitler flipped the swastika to face the other way. Sort of like how the Satanists use an upside down cross and the upside down pentacle exJAG talked about not long ago. Also, India was a big deal in Socialist Non-Aligned circles for a long time, so they would've absorbed a lot of more or less casual antisemitism and anti-Zionism... just as Japan was anti-Israel as a result of being pro-Palestinian to placate the Arab oil suppliers, even though most Japanese have never so much as seen a Jew from a distance and haven't a clue what the disagreement is about.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-29 13:14|| 2006-12-29 13:14|| Front Page Top

#13 I saw swastikas on shrines in Okinawa (pre-WWII of course). They were faced to the left. I've seen other swastika symbols to the right (native american, etc.). Hitler purposely tilted the nazi swastika to make it look like to the viewer that it was moving or some such. I believe his swastika was taken to be a symbol of some sort from an aryan or norse sun god. I saw something on this on the History channel aka "the hitler channel."

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-12-29 15:02|| 2006-12-29 15:02|| Front Page Top

#14 BH: I saw swastikas on shrines in Okinawa (pre-WWII of course).

The swastika (facing the other way) is an ancient Buddhist (and Hindu) symbol. It is still used all over Asia. Hitler adulation, however, is something Chinese, Indians and Muslims have in common.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-12-29 16:51|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-12-29 16:51|| Front Page Top

#15 ...Hitlers Cross, which serves only one marginally German item, German chocolate cake.

Which, of course, is not German at all.

Most be some talking points coming out of somewhere.

It's a linguistic thingy.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-12-29 18:08|| 2006-12-29 18:08|| Front Page Top

#16 The swastika (facing the other way) is an ancient Buddhist (and Hindu) symbol. It is still used all over Asia.

In 1913 Doubleday put out an edition of Kipling's works in red cloth with a swastika on the cover. I have Departmental Ditties and Barrack-Room Ballads in this edition. Wish I could find some more of the series, before someone decides they're all eeeeevil and must be burnt.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-12-29 18:14|| 2006-12-29 18:14|| Front Page Top

#17 #16 I've (it's important to marry well) Methuen's Kiplings from 1913 to 1933 with elephant head + swastika

Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-29 21:24|| 2006-12-29 21:24|| Front Page Top

#18 Germany's economy was coming out of the Depression before Hitler took power -- he just piggybacked on the efforts of Weimar economists... and of course he didn't impose any painful measures on a populace grateful for that much relief from the craziness of the times.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-29 21:36|| 2006-12-29 21:36|| Front Page Top

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