Steve Sailer writes: Germans are good at technology, so they should drop everything to find a technological fix for keeping old Nazis alive so we will never live in an age without trials of Nazis. Find some 86-year-olds who were 16 in 1945 and resolve to keep at least one alive by all means necessary until he can be put on trial in 2050 at age 121.
Or, Germany should launch a Manhattan Project to download elderly Nazi brains to computers so the world will never run out of Nazis to prosecute.
Or clone old Nazis. Wasn’t there a movie about that?
Or keep one Nazi brain alive in a jar.
COMMENTS TO STEVE SAILER:
* The recent and current trials of very old men who were very young guards and clerks during the war are the work of zealots in the German legal system. These defendants are being convicted for merely working in the concentration camps, not for committing any actual, particular crimes.
Also, some people still make their livings by maintaining and providing all the documents of Nazi atrocities. These people have to justify their organizations’ budgets to the German tax-payers.
We see this same zealotry in the USA too. OSI deported John Demjanjuk to Germany to stand trial and be convicted at one of those kangaroo-court trials. OSI still is trying to prosecute deport extremely old men, more than 90 years old. Politicians now are trying to terminate those old men’s Social Security benefits. There is no evidence that any of those old men hurt any particular inmates in those camps.
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I do think that Demjanjuk served in a concentration camp and lied about it when he immigrated to the USA. He was guilty of fraudulent immigration and therefore basically was deported from the USA legally and correctly.
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At one point in the OSI’s prosecution of John Demjanjuk, he was deported to Israel to stand trial on charges of mass murder. Supposedly, Denjanjuk really had been a notorious Ukrainian guard called “Ivan the Terrible”, who had chased Jews into the Treblinka gas chambers and then dropped the poison into the rooms. The OSI assembled all the evidence and sent it to Israel along with Demjanuk.
An Israeli lawyer named Yoram Sheftel was assigned to defend Demjanjuk, and so Sheftel immediately became the most hated person in all Israel. In an amazing turn of events, however, Sheftel defended Demjanjuk and won a complete acquittal. The trial lasted from November 1986 to April 1988 and ended with a conviction and death sentence for Demjanjuk.
Sheftel appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court, which in February 1998 overturned the conviction completely. The acquittal was not based on any legal loopholes. Rather Sheftel convinced the Supreme Court — and also practically the entire public — that Demjanjuk should be acquitted on the facts. The evidence proved actually that Demjanjuk was not the so-called Ivan the Terrible and had never even stepped foot inside of the Treblinka camp.
Sheftel later wrote a book about the trial, titled The Demjanjuk Affair: The Rise and Fall of a Show-Trial, published in 1994. It is a terrific book, especially for people who like to read stories about gritty lawyers who defend “obviously guilty” defendants and thus expose social injustice. It’s like a John Grisham novel, but it’s a true story, stranger than fiction.
* Hitler will be always the enemy because him and NS Germany came the closest to defeat the NWO.
* Christianity is about beliefs (and given the grace/works brouhaha, the extent to which beliefs without corresponding actions are worth anything). In the case of Judaism, not so much.
If that’s a double standard, then it is one that both religions seem to have accepted quite apart from any blame game about Komissars or kapos.
In Catholicism, for example, one is called on to recite a creed (over which wars were fought and global schisms arose) and to repeat it every single week, because it’s that important. With other religions, the notion of what one believes doesn’t enter into the equation in the same way. As long as someone recites the Shahada a single time, and upholds the 5 pillars of Islam, he is considered a better Muslim (according to many, if not most scholars) than someone who believes that all of that is true but fails to go through the motions. You can call that a double standard, but it just demonstrates that you’re the one with an axe to grind.
Moreover, it’s one thing to claim “Catholic points” for, say, the many comedians who are ex-Catholics, given that Catholicism and humor are hardly in opposition. Trying to blame or partly-blame Catholicism for, say, wiping out a third of European Jewry at a time when so many Catholics fought and died in opposition to those responsible for that, is quite another.
* Most Nazis despised Christianity. That is hardly a “myth”. Hitler’s dislike of the Catholic Church is well documented. As a young Habsburg subject growing up in Austria, like many pan-German nationalists, Hitler saw the Catholic church as a foreign entity that catered to Slavic minorities and undermined the “natural” destiny of Germans to rule. Most 19th century and early 20th century German nationalists tended to favor Lutheranism as being a more truly German church. However, Hitler himself doesn’t seem to have ever been particularly sympathetic to Lutheranism, which tended to be socially too liberal. Hitler was certainly no atheist, he believed apparently in some sort of divine Providence, but he was not a believing Christian in any meaningful sense of the word. Other Nazis were all over the map. A few were devout Christians, some were atheists, many, like Hitler, believed in a vague divine power of some sort, but not in Jesus, some of the more enthusiastic Nazis tried to restore pre-Christian German pagan beliefs, although Hitler himself thought neo-pagans were clowns. (For a German nationalist, Hitler himself seemed very uninterested in ancient Germanic culture. Nazi symbolism was mostly based on Roman or even Hindu (like the Swastika), not proto Germanic.) What liberals like to ignore is that Nazism was not very “conservative”, in many ways it was a philosophy that was supposed to propel a backwards agrarian society, as Hitler saw it, ahead of the more advanced Anglo Saxon societies. In that sense Hitler was a lot like Stalin or Mao.
* The arch-architect of Nazi ideology Alfred Rosenberg vehemently rejected traditional Christianity:
“Rosenberg argued for a new “religion of the blood”, based on the supposed innate promptings of the Nordic soul to defend its noble character against racial and cultural degeneration. He believed that this had been embodied in early Indo-European religions…He rejected Christianity for its universality, for its doctrine of original sin (at least for Germans whom he declared on one occasion were born noble), and for its teachings on the immortality of the soul.[26] Indeed, absorbing Christianity enfeebled a people.[27] Publicly, Rosenberg affected to deplore Christianity’s degeneration owing to Jewish influence.[28] Following Chamberlain’s ideas, he condemned what he called “negative Christianity” (the orthodox beliefs of Protestant and Catholic churches), arguing instead for a so-called “positive” Christianity[29][30]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Rosenberg
As the NSDAP became popular, they realized they couldn’t win the broader German electorate while being explicitly anti-Christian:
“Positive Christianity (German: Positives Christentum) was a movement within Nazi Germany which blended ideas of racial purity and Nazi ideology with elements of Christianity. Hitler included use of the term in Article 24[1] of the 1920 Nazi Party Platform, stating “the Party represents the standpoint of Positive Christianity”. Non-denominational, the term could be variously interpreted, but allayed fears among Germany’s Christian majority as to the expressed hostility towards the established churches of large sections of the Nazi movement.[2] In 1937, Hans Kerrl, the Nazi Minister for Church Affairs, explained “Positive Christianity” as not “dependent upon the Apostle’s Creed”, nor in “faith in Christ as the son of God”, upon which Christianity relied…
Positive Christianity differed from orthodox Christianity in that Positive Christianity:
Rejected the Jewish-written parts of the Bible (including the entire Old Testament)
Claimed “Aryanhood” and non-Jewishness for Christ
Promoted the political objective of national unity, to overcome confessional differences, to eliminate Catholicism, and to unite Protestantism into a single unitary Positive Christian church[10]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Christianity
“During the war Alfred Rosenberg formulated a thirty-point program for the National Reich Church, which included:
The National Reich Church claims exclusive right and control over all Churches.
The National Church is determined to exterminate foreign Christian faiths imported into Germany in the ill-omened year 800.
The National Church demands immediate cessation of the publishing and dissemination of the Bible.
The National Church will clear away from its altars all Crucifixes, Bibles and pictures of Saints.
On the altars there must be nothing but Mein Kampf and to the left of the altar a sword.[38]
