(July 31, 2013 at 11:46 am)Captain Colostomy Wrote: My junior high school history teacher's German raised grandma was a Holocaust denier. She just couldn't believe Hitler would do such a thing...proof be damned. All she could see was the hope and prosperity the regime afforded her family starting in the 1930's.
We only see what we want to see. I suppose if Hitler was continually referenced as being a good catholic boy, the outcome of the war would have been different. It's far easier to pull the trigger when your target doesn't remind you of yourself.
An atheist makes for a good target.
Ah, we refer to that generation as "Tätergeneration" - generation of the guilty.
Alot of them frequently deny crimes or speak of former nazis as glorious figures. Alot of that is done I guess to cleanse themselves from the image they have.
Thing is, to blame all the horrors of nazi rule on Hitler is a also a frequently used cheap scapegoat, often used by that generation.
Like the head of the Vienna council of roma said:
Quote:"It was not Hitler nore Göring nore Göbbels or Himmler who dragged my parents and me out of our houses, gased them in camps and stole my childhood. It was the local baker, the local butcher and the local postman, from one day to another they were suddently given black uniforms and then they suddently were the masterrace and could do whatever they wanted."
As such, I think it is important to underline that even if Hitler was an Atheist, it does not excuse the millions who are guilty of following him. If not doing that, one is simply accepting the pathetic excuse so often used by the guilty generation. My 4 granduncles who were all stormtroopers in the SA and who participated in the stealing of a paper printing company from it`s jewish owner nearby aswell as in the guarding of the local buisnesses that bought slave labor from the nearby KZ Mauthausen and who all died in the world war 2 on the eastern front - were devoutly catholic.
My fascist Grandfather was devoutly catholic and every single old nazi I knew was devoutly catholic.
Fascism came to existance in devoutly catholic ereas and had it`s greatest success in catholic ereas. In Bavaria, Italy and Spain.
One should also mention that there was more resistance against fascism in fascist countries or countries occupied by fascists in the reas which had protestant citizens.
