Glad tidings! And is this ever welcome news!
Today's New York Times carries an article by Roger Cohen I would call stunning, even wondrous. Read for yourself, and ponder what it means for Europe.
Title: Hitler Apologist Wins German Honor, and a Storm Breaks Out
New York Times:
The award of one of Germany's most prestigious literary prizes to a historian who has sought to justify the Holocaust has ignited a fierce dispute here at a time of conservative and reactionary intellectual stirrings in Europe.
The historian, Ernst Nolte, has argued that Hitler's anti-Semitism had a "rational core" and that Nazism was in essence a riposte to Bolshevism. He received the Konrad Adenauer Prize for literature this month, causing an uproar that has filled newspapers with invective and divided one of the country's leading historical institutes.
Zundelsite:
The historical record is, and has been, crystal clear for 70 years. National Socialism was a ***reaction against Jewish-dominated Bolshevism***. It was, in fact, the only viable alternative, since conservatism, liberalism and clericalism had failed Europe miserably in the 1920s and 1930.
My readers will want to know that Nolte, the recipient of the award, has been the subject of intense persecution over the last ten years, having had his car bombed and burned and his summer retreat made the target of arsonists.
New York Times:
The prize, whose past recipients include former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, is given for works that "contribute to a better future" by the Munich-based Deutschland Foundation. The organization is conservative and close to the right wing of the Christian Democratic Party but had not been considered reactionary or revisionist.
Zundelsite:
One does not have to be a reactionary or revisionist to put two and two together. Liberals, Socialists and Marxists have slowly lost their all-pervasive power over European thinking, and this New York Times article just about spells it out.
New York Times:
Accepting the prize, Mr. Nolte said, "We should leave behind the view that the opposite of National Socialist goals is always good and right." He added that because Nazism was the "strongest of all counter forces" to Bolshevism, a movement with wide Jewish support, Hitler may have had "rational" reasons for attacking the Jews.
Zundelsite:
This is, of course, absolutely correct. The Bolshevik Revolution was Jewish-Marxist inspired, financed and carried out, not against class enemies but against the gentile aristocracy of Russia and Europe generally. Even Winston Churchill acknowledged that in his article in the Illustrated Sunday Herald of February 8, 1920, "Zionism versus Bolshevism: The Revolution in Russia." In this article, Churchill described the Jewish leadership of the terroristic Communist Revolution.
New York Times:
The timing of the prize was particularly delicate because this is a period of some intellectual ferment in Europe. The success of the Austrian rightist Jörg Haider in steering his Freedom Party into government has emboldened the right.
Zundelsite:
One might also argue that Europe is coming to its senses, throwing off the Marxist yoke - in the East and in the West!
New York Times:
In Germany and France, a conservative reaction is evident against what the French call "the angelic left," which is accused of imposing a stifling political correctness on debate and of backing a multicultural tide that will sweep away the European nation state.
Zundelsite:
The reaction to the crimes and insanity of Marxist liberalism is gaining momentum, sweeping away the lies, fabrications and deceptions of the Allied-imposed post-war victors' point of view.
New York Times:
In this context, Mr. Nolte has emerged as an iconoclast with apparently growing conservative appeal. A few days after receiving the prize, he was widely applauded at a conference in Paris where he again explored his thesis about Hitler and the Jews.
Zundelsite:
Ah - Paris of all places! French intellectuals, including Professor Faurisson, Garaudy and others have been in the forefront of this quiet but inevitable "counter-revolution" - of truth over lies and historical facts over political "truths."
New York Times:
"The award of the prize to Nolte was a clear political statement intended to promote the view that there is no particular stigma to Nazism in the light of what some Germans now call the 'Red Holocaust' in the Soviet Union," said Charles Maier, a Harvard historian. "It's exculpatory in the German context. It's also really scandalous."
Zundelsite:
What is really "scandalous" is something else. Scandalous has been the attempt by largely Jewish-American based academics for the last half century to falsify history to make it match the Jewish concept of what National Socialism and Hitler were all about.
New York Times:
The unease and anger in Germany over the prize has been accentuated by the fact that another prominent historian, Horst Möller, the director of the distinguished Institute for Contemporary History, chose to make the speech honoring Mr. Nolte.
Zundelsite:
It was only a matter of time for a decent man and a professional to say: "Enough is enough!" Now let's see if Horst Möller is indeed such a man - or if he will cave in as others have before him.
New York Times:
The institute was established after the war in Munich with a clear educational mission directed largely toward researching Nazism.
Zundelsite:
". . . and, let no one forget, give most of their writings an anti-Nazi, pro-Allied slant!"
New York Times:
In his speech, Mr. Möller said he did not agree with all of Mr. Nolte's views, but went on to praise a "life's work of high rank" and to make a vigorous attack on the "hate-filled and defamatory" attempts to stop open debate in Germany.
Zundelsite:
It took Möller and his fellow professional historians fifty years to work up enough courage to speak out and call a spade a spade. One wonders if the shameless, ambulance-chasing Reparations Racketeers had anything to do with that?
New York Times:
The reaction was overwhelming. Newspapers have been filled with letters from other historians at the institute calling on Mr. Möller to resign.
In an open letter to Die Zeit, Heinrich A. Winkler, a professor of history at Berlin's Humboldt University, said, "Mr. Möller allowed himself to become party to an intellectual political offensive aimed at integrating rightist and revisionist positions in the conservative mainstream." (...)
Zundelsite:
And how sweet this sounds to revisionist ears - ". . . an intellectual political offensive"! Doesn't it just melt on your tongue?
New York Times:
With Haiderism thriving in neighboring Austria, the ground has become fertile in Germany for a nationalist and right-wing intellectual awakening. It is fed by weariness, even anger, at what is seen as Germany's eternal victimization for the Holocaust, and irritation at the multicultural message from a Red-Green government.
Zundelsite:
Translation: Germans and Austrians have been kicked once too many! Now they are telling the world: "Get off our backs!" Soon they may tell them to pay reparations for the bombing of Germany's cities and the rape and murder of its civilians - millions of them! After all, the precedent is there!
New York Times:
Mr. Nolte took up these themes in his speech. He attacked those who argue for "an unstoppable transition toward world civilization." He bitterly denounced the "collective accusation" continuously leveled at Germany since 1945.
Zundelsite:
Hear! Hear! Such words from Germany?
New York Times:
The historian, the author of books including "Three Faces of Fascism" and "The European Civil War," has been well known for his argument about Hitler and Stalin since the 1980's.
Zundelsite:
Well known? That man has paid his dues! He has been vilified, persecuted and suppressed! He has been victimized like everybody in the world who dared question the warped post-war view of history from the Allies-Marxist-Jewish angle!
New York Times:
But never before has a center-right institution like the Deutschland Foundation moved to embrace him in such a formal way, intimating that at least the right of the Christian Democratic Party may be ready to countenance the view that the crimes of the Nazis were not unique and have been unfairly singled out.
Mr. Haider has made a lot of headway in Austria precisely by questioning the "intellectual tyranny" of the left.
Zundelsite:
This reaction was inevitable. The pendulum is swinging back - big time! - and hitting a few noses.
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Source: New York Times, June 21, 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/062100nolte-prize.html
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Thought for the Day:
"There are reparations money (billions!), vengeance, a passionate seething anti-gentile hatred that needs satisfying (like some erotic nerve) and so on and so forth. It is a complex, and when it comes apart (as it will soon and suddenly) it will be a spiritual catastrophe for the Jews -- and for Holocaust-happy liberals."
(Letter to the Zundelsite)
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