• knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
    281·
    11 months ago

    The Nazis did win for all practical purposes.

    Modern Germany has also dug itself into a position where it has to defend Israel at any and all costs. Due to the nature of the national guilt complex (for lack of a better phrase) surrounding the Holocaust, Zionists must be protected and any criticism of Zionism is immediately demonized as anti-semitic (sshhh, we don’t talk about actual anti-semitic violence against Jewish Germans). Furthermore, this guilt complex requires action against anything labelled as anti-semitic, which necessitates this latest development.

  • supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    11 months ago

    That’s just Europe since the days of Columbus. Spain, Portugal, England, the Dutch, and later Germany, Italy, Belgium etc. that’s their economic history. Genociding people, enslaving them, taking their shit. Now it’s no longer countries, but nestle, de beers, barrick, etc

    The Nazis were only unique in that they did it in Europe.

      • supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        11 months ago

        May be unique is too strong a word here, but the focus on Nazis is primarily because it scarred the European landscape also. I know other places were impacted as well, not denying it. There were many genocides committed by European powers. The Bengal famine in fact took place during WWII.

      • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
        5·
        11 months ago

        What aspects of Nazi ideology were so unique, or even originating in Germany? Racial “purity,” “Aryan” supremacy, lebensraum (settler-colonialism), and anti-Semitic “Judeo-Bolshevik” blood libel all came from the western European empires and their colonial Anglo spawn first. Even the fascist corporatism started elsewhere (Italy). At most, the Nazis added a new industrial touch to the genocidal policies first employed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas (and then elsewhere).

      • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
        14·
        11 months ago

        Taken from their Twitter:

        Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza

        On Namibian soil, #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most inhumane and brutal conditions. The German Government is yet to fully atone for the genocide it committed on Namibian soil. Therefore, in light of Germany’s inability to draw lessons from its horrific history, President @hagegeingob expresses deep concern with the shocking decision communicated by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany yesterday, 12 January 2024, in which it rejected the morally upright indictment brought forward by South Africa before the #InternationalCourtofJustice that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza.

        Worryingly, ignoring the violent deaths of over 23 000 Palestinians in Gaza and various United Nations reports disturbingly highlighting the internal displacement of 85% of civilians in Gaza amid acute shortages of food and essential services, the German Government has chosen to defend in the International Court of Justice the genocidal and gruesome acts of the Israeli Government against innocent civilians in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

        Germany cannot morally express commitment to the United Nations Convention against genocide, including atonement for the genocide in Namibia, whilst supporting the equivalent of a holocaust and genocide in Gaza. Various international organizations, such as Human Rights Watch have chillingly concluded that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza.

        President Geingob reiterates his call made on 31 December 2023, “No peace-loving human being can ignore the carnage waged against Palestinians in Gaza”. In that vein, President Geingob appeals to the German Government to reconsider its untimely decision to intervene as a third-party in defence and support of the genocidal acts of Israel before the International Court of Justice.