POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
This is an important discovery for students of the period.
But I take exception to the Globe's characterizing Rosenberg
as a powerful figure.
He was not, indeed he was a quack, even by NAZI standards.
He held a position resembling that of some cardinal in the
Vatican whose job it is to codify official doctrine.
He wrote stuff no one actually read and was regarded as a
bit of a joke by the real players in NAZI Germany.
The real players all were men who lusted after power and
influence, and many of them had little use for a good deal of NAZI doctrine.
Still, he heard a good deal of insider information, and he
undoubtedly made some important observations.
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"I, for one, look
forward to reading more about this discovery.
"Possibly the
most shocking book I have read to date (actually I had to stop reading it, so
graphic was it!) was a book I got at the Public Library and which is also
available from booksellers:
The Good Old Days: The
Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders [Hardcover] Ernst Klee
(Editor), Willi Dressen (Editor), Volker Reiss (Editor)
"Having also
visited Dachau and the beaches of Normandy (twice), I believe we must never
forget such atrocity and each of us has a responsibility to condemn racism in
its many repugnant forms. Having lived as a stranger in a strange land, I
cherish our rights and freedoms."
Yes, but there was not just one atrocity.
Hitler was largely responsible for a war that killed more
than 50 million people and destroyed the lives of countless millions of others.
The invasion of Russia was the most terrifying event in all
of recorded human history with 27 million Russians being killed as well as
millions of Germans.
The totality of destruction was like nothing seen before, or
indeed since.
Its impact included decades of Soviet domination in Europe
and the creation of Israel, which itself has been a trail of tears for
millions.
The Holocaust itself was only launched using the chaos and
massive brutality of the invasion of Russia as a cover.
Even Hitler didn’t dare such an undertaking without the
being able to bury it, as it were, in an even greater horror.
And we should always remember that Hitler and World War War
II were the result of the terrible business of World War I, a meaningless war
in which 2 branches of a royal house fought for supremacy on the continent of
Europe and managed to kill 20 million people.
The Treaty afterward was far too harsh on Germany,
especially when the Great Depression rolled in, and the resulting set of
conditions and the uncompromising acts of many statesmen gave us Hitler and
another war.
Germany after WWI had a very liberal government with many
enlightened views, but the West gave it no help and support in its many
difficulties.
