The Lessons of the Nazis’ Wannsee Conference Should Still Haunt Us

The start of a catastrophe...

Understanding Hitler’s Anti-Semitism
It wasn’t about German nationalism, the historian Timothy Snyder argues. It was about the whole world.
EDWARD DELMAN
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Hitler is often depicted as the prototypical totalitarian—a man who believed in the superiority of the German state, a German nationalist to the extreme. But according to Snyder, this depiction is deeply flawed. Rather, Hitler was a “racial anarchist”—a man for whom states were transitory, laws meaningless, ethics a facade.

“There is in fact no way of thinking about the world, says Hitler, which allows us to see human beings as human beings. Any idea which allows us to see each other as human beings … come[s] from Jews,” Snyder told me in an interview. As Snyder sees it, Hitler believed the only way for the world to revert to its natural order—that of brutal racial competition—was to eradicate the Jews.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/404260/


Hitler’s antisemitism. Why did he hate the Jews?

Antisemitism played a major role in Adolf Hitler’s thinking and in the Nazi ideology. Read here what inspired Hitler's hatred of Jews and what life events played a role in its development.

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/why-did-hitler-hate-jews/


10 Things You Should Know About Hitler: Predictions From 1932
BRIAN RESNICK
APRIL 20, 2012

Based on a reading of Mein Kampf, an Atlantic author imagines what Germany might become should the aspiring dictator "succeed in gaining control of the German government."

Hitler knew of the Mizrahi Jews. Why don’t we?
There have always been Jews of all colors; the lie that Jews somehow just appeared in the Middle East in 1948 needs to die
APR 3, 2019, 8:22 AM

How did a German supremacist Nazi dictator get to teaming up with Arab nationalist leader? The same way Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke defends Louis “I’m anti-termite” Farrakhan and his blatant anti-Semitic teachings. A common ideology brings together the strangest of bedfellows.

Just as early as 2017, we learned of the neo-Nazis of Germany forming an allyship with Syria’s Assad regime, and Hezbollah in Lebanon, hatred of the West and Israel being their common guiding principle.

One reason why the rebirth of the Jewish homeland is so important is that this evil ideology, though ancient, is very much alive today. 850,000 Mizrahi Jews were expelled from countries like Iraq, Egypt and Syria upon the rebirth of the State of Israel, and 650,000 of them would still be refugees today had it not been for the Jewish state — the very state that Hitler and al-Husseini were very much against, a state that instantly became the largest refugee camp in the Middle East because of the expulsion of Mizrahi Jews from Arab lands. Over half of Israel’s population is Jews of color whose families came as refugees from Middle Eastern and North African countries. And much like their European brethren, they are returning to the land after centuries of being exiled.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hitler-knew-of-the-mizrahi-jews-why-dont-we/

Thanks for the history lesson, I had never heard of this.