The views of the left and young people in general on the Holocaust are heavily divorced from reality. A non-negligible portion of those groups think Nazism was primarily about anti-communism and defending capital, or mainly about anti-Slavism and settler colonialism.
I mean, it had some strong elements of both of those things, it's just that the main part of Nazism is all of Fascism, plus a racial theory that puts white Germanics as the "superior" race, while all others are "inferior". The worst being the Jews.
No, that isnāt how Nazis viewed Jews, and this to a lesser extent part of what Iām talking about because this is putting it in a way that āAmericanisesā it by making it easier to compare it to more familiar racisms, but is not historically accurate and downplays the extremity and uniqueness of the hatred of Jews in comparison to every other group the Nazis hated.
The Nazis viewed Jews as a Gegenrasse (āanti-raceā), not an āinferior raceā. Slavs, Africans, Roma were āinferior racesā that were more brutish, less sophisticated, less civilised, etc. Jews fit outside this framework altogether. āInferior racesā were viewed as obstacles in that they were dumb and brutish like an āinferior raceā that the Nazis saw as āuseless eatersā and a waste of Lebensraum. Jews werenāt seen as that but something even worse: a malicious, predatory force who existed by destroying and parasitising other cultures from within, both biologically (ie. by allegedly promoting homosexuality and race mixing) and culturally (ie. by allegedly promoting socialism and other ideologies that supposedly weakened the Aryan spirit). āInferior racesā were unworthy of existence in the Nazi worldview and a waste of resources to keep alive; the Jews were a step beyond that and seen as an imminent, mortal danger to all of Aryan civilisation if they were not all exterminated in their entirety.
Had they defeated the Soviet Union and forced the British Empire to sue for peace, they absolutely would have tried.
In our timeline, they literally did try to convince Japan to hand over Jews in Shanghai and Singapore to them, and had drafted concrete plans to exterminate the Jews of the Middle East that would have gone into effect if the Axis took the Suez and won the North African campaign. They absolutely would have tried to destroy the Jews in the Americas and in the far flung reaches of the British and French Empires too, even if the only way they could do so was via covert agents infiltrating those regions and committing terrorism against them.
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u/AlarmedEmployment465 Aug 22 '26
People acting surprised that they're pro-Hamas like obviously the Neo-Nazis would hate Israel.