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Adolf Hitler Would There Again Be Such a Ruthless Extermination of the Helplessly Ill TOUGH LOVE: THE RESCUE OF GERMANY “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Nazism HDT WHAT? INDEX NAZISM “MR. NATURAL” 1478 November 1, Sunday (Old Style): Pope Sixtus IV issued the papal bull that extended the power of the Santo Oficio, or Inquisition from France into the Iberian peninsula. The Inquisition, which had been initiated during the 13th Century, was not only involved in the suppression of religious dissidence, but had been and would be responsible for the torture and execution of many individuals whom they supposed to be possessed by an evil spirit, individuals whom we would now describe as having one or another mental illness. At Seville, inquisitors Miguel de Morcillo and Juan de San Martin would in about 3 years account for, in round numbers, about 500 such individuals. In Aragon, inquisitor Thomas de Torquemada would make quite a name for himself in the pursuit of deviance. Not until the regime of Adolf Hitler would there again be such a ruthless extermination of the helplessly ill. PROTO-NAZISM PSYCHOLOGY Of course, this sort of treatment was not reserved for the mentally ill. Forced Jewish converts to Catholic Christianity, known politely as conversos and impolitely as “swine,” who still (allegedly) practiced Jewish rites in secret within their own families, would be tortured until they confessed to such and then “relaxed” to the civil arm of government to be burned at the stake (this burning at the stake, itself, was not any part of the torture routines, which had already been completed by the Church, but was merely a manner of execution that if properly accomplished by the secular arm would not involve them in the Biblically forbidden “shedding of the blood”). –Unless, that is, they managed to flee the country, in which event they would be burned in effigy. (In either case their family estate would be divided among their persecutors.)1 1. See Lea, Henry Charles. HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF SPAIN and Netanyahu, Benzoin. THE ORIGINS OF THE INQUISITION IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY SPAIN (Random House, 1995). HDT WHAT? INDEX “MR. NATURAL” NAZISM 1543 January 4, Thursday (1542, Old Style): In his pamphlet VON DEN JÜDEN UND IREN LÜGEN, Herr Professor Martin Luther, who had not previously been unusually negative about Judaism, repeatedly quoted the words of Jesus in MATTHEW 12:34, that depicts Jesus as deeming the Jewish religious leaders “a brood of vipers and children of the devil.” He characterized Jews as a “base, whoring people, that is, no people of God.” Their synagogue is an “incorrigible whore and an evil slut.” They are a people “full of the devil’s feces ... which they wallow in like swine.” Their claims of lineage, circumcision, and law are “filth.” They should all be forcibly deported, to Palestine. Failing that, all their synagogues should be destroyed. All Jewish writings (not excluding their BIBLES) were to be burned. The sole means of survival available to a German Jewish family should be the most degraded and vulnerable occupation of all: the agricultural labor force. This guy was a German after all! It is to be noted, however, that Luther’s objections to Jews were cultural rather than biological, and thus he never did call for their extermination. This book, which seems on its face to be merely an early predecessor of Adolf Hitler’s rant in MEIN KAMPF, actually did not go the whole distance: “First, their synagogues or churches should be set on fire, and whatever does not burn up should be covered or spread over with dirt so that no one many ever be able to see a cinder or stone of it.... “Secondly, their homes should likewise be broken down and destroyed. For they perpetuate the same things there that they do in their synagogues. For this they ought to be put under one roof or in a stable, like gypsies, in order that they may realize that they are not master in our land, as they boast, but miserable captives.... “If, however, we are afraid that they might harm us personally, or our wives, children, servants, cattle, etc., when they serve us or work for us ... let us drive them out of the country for all time.” ANTISEMITISM 20 years earlier the professor had advised kindness toward the Jews in THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN A JEW, his aim being by kindness to convert them to Christianity, transforming them into a good little second-class German folk. These efforts at conversion-through-gentleness having of course failed, he had become increasingly bitter. His attitudes reflected a tradition which saw Jews as a rejected people guilty of murdering Christ. He considered Jews blasphemers and liars because they rejected Jesus as the Messiah. Here is an excerpt from the official statement by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Luther’s anti-Jewish statements: HDT WHAT? INDEX NAZISM “MR. NATURAL” In the spirit of truth-telling, we who bear his name and heritage must with pain acknowledge also Luther’s anti-Judaic diatribes and the violent recommendations of his later writings against the Jews. As did many of Luther’s own companions in the sixteenth century, we reject this violent invective, and yet more do we express our deep and abiding sorrow over its tragic effects on subsequent generations ... We particularly deplore the appropriation of Luther’s words by modern anti-Semites for the teaching of hatred toward Judaism or toward the Jewish people in our day. In response to the perennial question, “Did Martin Luther’s anti-Jewish writings inspire Adolf Hitler to carry out the Holocaust?” Dr. Paul Maier has declared that of course this had not been the case. Apples and oranges, you see, apples and oranges: There is a difference between Luther the young man who wrote Jesus Christ Was Born Jewish, and Luther the irritable old man who suffered from kidney stones and wrote, Against the Jews and Their Lies. In his younger days, he complained about the treatment the Jews received at the hands of the church. He was sure that when the Gospel was preached to them, they would come flocking to it. That didn’t happen. In later life, Luther lashed out at the “hardhearted, incorrigible” Jews. Unlike Hitler, though, Luther had no problem with their racial makeup, only with their religious beliefs ... He never advocated their extermination. Hitler would have to look elsewhere for that. (One gathers that the grand difference between Luther and Hitler on the “Jewish Question” was that Luther had desired that they be murdered one by one, place by place, whereas Hitler would see fit to gather them together in order more efficiently and effectively to murder them in groups. A telling difference, that displays one of them as the incarnation of evil and the other of them as an inspiring religious leader.) HDT WHAT? INDEX “MR. NATURAL” NAZISM 1763 June 25, Saturday: Under the leadership of the Ottawa sachem Pontiac, the warriors of various tribes had allied with the French (who were always outnumbered by the English by at least 15 to 1 and who were relying upon their superior ability to gain the confidence of, and form military alliances with, the native American tribes) were operating according to guerrilla tactics. On this day Colonel Henry Bouquet wrote to General Sir Jeffery Amherst expressing the sentiment with regard to “those disaffected tribes of Indians,” that they were “Vermine,” and that they had “forfeited all claim to the rights of humanity.” He continued that “I would rather chuse the liberty to kill any Savage.” The response of Colonel Bouquet, one of General Amherst’s primary field officers, would be the same as the response which would be made by the New England colonials during their genocide of 1675-1676, and the same as the response which would be made by General Andrew Jackson during his enslavement-raids in Florida among the Black Seminole bands, and the same as the response to guerrilla warfare which would be made by the US Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer in 1868-1876, and the same as the response which would be made by Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht during its march across Poland in 1941. VA RI OL A Which is to say, villages, crops, and orchards would be searched out and torched, and all nonwhite women and HDT WHAT? INDEX NAZISM “MR. NATURAL” children who could be trapped in the process would immediately be executed. Sir Jeffery also at this point took action to implement his germ warfare recommendation of 1732, by soliciting from his subordinate: Could it not be contrived to Send the Small Pox among those Disaffected Tribes of Indians? We must on this occassion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them. VA RI OL A In an article in the New York Times for April 11, 1998, OP-ED page A25, column 2, titled “Biological Warfare, Circa 1750,” Elizabeth A. Penn, a doctoral candidate in history at Yale, has alleged without citation that: In fact, Amherst was wasting his ink, for the soldiers at Fort Pitt were well ahead of him. Without their commander’s prompting, they had given local Shawnee and Delaware Indians two infected blankets and a handkerchief on June 24. HDT WHAT? INDEX “MR. NATURAL” NAZISM The subordinate Bouquet did respond obediently that he would make the attempt with infected blankets, but feared he might infect his own men. The subordinate then proposed using “the Spanish method,” which was a combination of light horsemen and forest rangers with hunting dogs, to “effectually extirpate or remove that vermin” at smaller risk.
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