Teh Nazis!

[Rosencrantz]

How could we think the nazism was/is/should be German's problem only?
Let's take couple examples:

1. Who supported eugenic research programs in Germany before the WWII? The very right answer is: Among the others, THE Rockefeller Foundation. Why? Because in the States there was people who thought it was time to get rid of disabled (physically or mentally) people, or people with low economics but fast reproduction. In the nutshell the idea was to search and identify principal eugenic factors which make a man being a potential looser - i.e. social ballast. And for example in Sweden these kind of programs continued even long after the war, including for example forced castration of women with unwanted social background. Here in Finland eugenic studies were also conducted but they never lead to anything.

2. I wouldn't say "the Germans killed 6'000'000 jews" but rather "the World killed millions of jews, gypsies and other people in concentration camps placed in the Germany". Why? Because even if no one could imagine Auswitch-like mass destruction factory in 1930's, propably no one who read The London Times or other main stream news paper could be unaware about what was going in the Germany. Just read the old magazines and you'll see. Everything is there, starting from the very first anti-jewish pogrom on 1st of April 1933. Quote from the Finish paper Ajan Suunta 1.4.1933: "...Boycott will be carried on on Saturday, with full strength and iron discipline. It will begin, as planned, at 10 am, but will be interrupted at the evening... If the international agitation will be called to absolutely halt by the evening, the National Socialist Party will be ready to return the normal conditions in the Germany..." (My translation)
"International agitation" means foreign press releases handling the anti-jewish violences happened already in the Germany.

So, there was news, nothing much was done behind the curtains, and what happened? Nothing. No one raised a finger before it was too late. And again, why? Of course, no one didn't know how far Germany would go with jews, plus that basicly it was German's own busines to rule their country. But I think also, no one really didn't want those people, jews and the others. That became clear a bit later, as years passed. No one didn't want those people, and so actually the world killed them - not the Germans alone.

But the world needs it's heroes and so we often seems to forget that when the white troops saved the world from the black nazism, they were actually washing their own laundry as well. And what concerns me even more is that something like the Holocaust could happen again, against our eyes, and without we would be able to do anything but being late. And it doesn't have to be mass murders or ethnic wars like in the Balkans 1990's, but maybe also something else. However, no matter what we think about it today, eugenic was a science then. And besides the genes, what are we studying today?

To the end I want to say just one more thing. I think it's a shame - but understandable - that the Nazi era hasn't been discussed properly between the old and new German generations. I think maybe the most important lesson will be lost, because the era is quiet to death. I say so bacause I can't believe all that could happen and no one knew - as it is often excused. "I didn't know", or "Grandpa didn't know". I think the best what still living old people in Germany could do would be telling: "Yes, I was a German and I hailed to the Führer." And then explain what he or she felt and thought during those years and why.

Greetings,
-RC-