Getting Away With Nazi Warcrimes!

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Two of the most prominent exploits or captured game of professional Nazi hunters are Samuel Kunz & John Demjanjuk. Both cases involve shrivelled old men in their 80s who simply served as guards in the concentration camps. As stated in an article in the MSN news website:

"While Mr Kunz ranked fairly low in the Nazi hierarchy, he is among the top most wanted due to the large number of Jews he is accused of having been involved in killing - which the prosecutor's office in Dortmund puts at 430,000."
http://news.uk.msn.com/world/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=154243558

In the case of Dejanjuk, who now lives in the US, although he has been stripped of his US citizenship he is wanted now in Germany, but his frail health is fustrating the professional Nazi hunters. They simply are not able to move in for the kill:

But there is a potential hitch: Is the 88-year-old physically capable of standing trial? Demjanjuk's son, John Demjanjuk Jr., has said that his father is "very frail." His father reportedly suffers from a "blood and bone marrow disorder," which forces him to go to the hospital several times a month for regular blood transfusions. During the last year, his son adds, Demjanjuk's condition has worsened so much that he fears his father couldn't make it through a trial.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,611819,00.html

Now I personally donot see any difference between the criminal culpability of some low level Nazi guard in a concentration camp & the culpability of the American soldiers who carried out the massacre in Fallujah(under orders) or those who carried out torture in Guantanamo Bay (also under orders) or for that matter the Nato pilots currently carrying out genocide in the Libyan town of Sirte. Why persecute these old men & let their American or Nato counterparts go free? In the Western mind there is this strange ahistorical notion that the horrors of Nazi Germany is something peculiarly German, & not typical of Western Society or Culture. Westerners may even point out to the crimes carried out by Colonial Germany in the 19th century against the Herero in Namibia as a precursor to the Jewish holocaust.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44778704/ns/world_news-africa/t/germanys-return-namibian-skulls-stokes-anger/

However, history tells a different story. The ordinary people of Germany after world war 2 have had to bear the crushing burden of collective guilt associated with the Jewish holocaust. This horror has been attributed to the "character of the German people", when in fact it was the shared responsibilty of the German political & intellectual elite. Among the persons who would be the quickest to point out the holocaust as a phenomenon not altogether Western (or as something not encompassing values associated with the broader Western world) but someting peculiarly German, would be the Anglo-Americans. Even up to today the Americans boast about of never having been imperialist, inspite of the trail of Mass graves left in Latin America as a result of their historical intervention, especially during the era of " communist threat". The British are even worse; not only do they admit to being Imperialists, but they openly boast that it is the best thing that ever happened to human history. Every year during Emancipatiopn, black people are subjected to the ironic & almost amusing horror of watching white English men boast about ending slavery in the West Indies, an institution which they were responsible for creating in the first place. This racist psycopathy is best exemplified in writers like Nial Fergusson, a racist pseudo scientist and intellectual ( who would be at home in Hitler's Germany) openly promoting uniquely British & moronic concepts such as the advantages of British colonialism. He also wrote a book called the West & the Rest, laying out for readers in the 21st century why the Western race is the Truly " Master Race" ( my words not his).

But this ofcourse is all nonsense. A study of Nazi history shows well enough that the Hitler Project was not simply a singular biproduct of the character of the people of Deutscheland. In his book " George Bush, the Unauthorised Biography" William Tarpley goes through great pains to point out the role played by Aglo-American financial institutions headed by Prescott Bush , the father of George bush Sr. in establishing Adolf Hitler as a political force. In doing so he points out the business relationship between the main German banker of the Nazi enterprise Fitz Thyssen and his American Wall Street business partners mostly a family Coalition through marriage made up of the Harrimans and the Bush family represented by Prescott Bush the father of George Bush Sr:

http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/chapter-2-the-hitler-project/

"Fritz Thyssen and his business partners are universally recognized as the most important German financiers of Adolf Hitler’s takeover of Germany. At the time of the order seizing the Thyssen family’s Union Banking Corp., Mr. Fritz Thyssen had already published his famous book, I Paid Hitler,@s5 admitting that he had financed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement since October 1923. Thyssen’s role as the leading early backer of Hitler’s grab for power in Germany had been noted by U.S. diplomats in Berlin in 1932.@s6 The order seizing the Bush-Thyssen bank was curiously quiet and modest about the identity of the perpetrators who had been nailed.

But two weeks before the official order, government investigators had reported secretly that “ W. Averell Harriman was in Europe sometime prior to 1924 and at that time became acquainted with Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist. ” Harriman and Thyssen agreed to set up a bank for Thyssen in New York. “ [C]ertain of [Harriman's] associates would serve as directors…. ” Thyssen agent “ H. J. Kouwenhoven … came to the United States … prior to 1924 for conferences with the Harriman Company in this connection…. ”@s7

When exactly was “ Harriman in Europe sometime prior to 1924 ”? In fact, he was in Berlin in 1922 to set up the Berlin branch of W.A. Harriman & Co. under George Walker’s presidency.

The Union Banking Corporation was established formally in 1924, as a unit in the Manhattan offices of W.A. Harriman & Co., interlocking with the Thyssen-owned Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart (BHS) in the Netherlands. The investigators concluded that “ the Union Banking Corporation has since its inception handled funds chiefly supplied to it through the Dutch bank by the Thyssen interests for American investment. ”

Thus by personal agreement between Averell Harriman and Fritz Thyssen in 1922, W.A. Harriman & Co. (alias Union Banking Corporation) would be transferring funds back and forth between New York and the “ Thyssen interests ” in Germany. By putting up about $400,000, the Harriman organization would be joint owner and manager of Thyssen’s banking operations outside of Germany.

How important was the Nazi enterprise for which President Bush’s father was the New York banker?

The 1942 U.S. government investigative report said that Bush’s Nazi-front bank was an interlocking concern with the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works Corporation or German Steel Trust) led by Fritz Thyssen and his two brothers. After the war, Congressional investigators probed the Thyssen interests, Union Banking Corp. and related Nazi units. The investigation showed that the Vereinigte Stahlwerke had produced the following approximate proportions of total German national output:

50.8% of Nazi Germany’s pig iron
41.4% of Nazi Germany’s universal plate
36.0% of Nazi Germany’s heavy plate
38.5% of Nazi Germany’s galvanized sheet
45.5% of Nazi Germany’s pipes and tubes
22.1% of Nazi Germany’s wire
35.0% of Nazi Germany’s explosives.@s8

Prescott Bush became vice president of W.A. Harriman & Co. in 1926. That same year, a friend of Harriman and Bush set up a giant new organization for their client Fritz Thyssen, prime sponsor of politician Adolf Hitler. The new German Steel Trust, Germany’s largest industrial corporation, was organized in 1926 by Wall Street banker Clarence Dillon. Dillon was the old comrade of Prescott Bush’s father Sam Bush from the “ Merchants of Death ” bureau in World War I.

In return for putting up $70 million to create his organization, majority owner Thyssen gave the Dillon Read company two or more representatives on the board of the new Steel Trust.@s9."


But more damning than this is support give to the Nazi party's army of personal guards called Brown Shirts:

"Certain actions taken directly by the Harriman-Bush shipping line in 1932 must be ranked among the gravest acts of treason in this century.

The U.S. embassy in Berlin reported back to Washington that the “ costly election campaigns ” and “ the cost of maintaining a private army of 300,000 to 400,000 men ” had raised questions as to the Nazis’ financial backers. The constitutional government of the German republic moved to defend national freedom by ordering the Nazi Party private armies disbanded. The U.S. embassy reported that the Hamburg-Amerika Line was purchasing and distributing propaganda attacks against the German government, for attempting this last-minute crackdown on Hitler’s forces.@s2@s7

Thousands of German opponents of Hitlerism were shot or intimidated by privately armed Nazi Brown Shirts. In this connection we note that the original “ Merchant of Death, ” Samuel Pryor, was a founding director of both the Union Banking Corp. and the American Ship and Commerce Corp. Since Mr. Pryor was executive committee chairman of Remington Arms and a central figure in the world’s private arms traffic, his use to the Hitler project was enhanced as the Bush family’s partner in Nazi Party banking and trans-Atlantic shipping.

The U.S. Senate arms-traffic investigators probed Remington after it was joined in a cartel agreement on explosives to the Nazi firm I.G. Farben. Looking at the period leading up to Hitler’s seizure of power, the Senators found that “ German political associations, like the Nazi and others, are nearly all armed with American … guns…. Arms of all kinds coming from America are transshipped in the Scheldt to river barges before the vessels arrive in Antwerp. They then can be carried through Holland without police inspection or interference. The Hitlerists and Communists are presumed to get arms in this manner. The principal arms coming from America are Thompson submachine guns and revolvers. The number is great. ”@s2@s8"


So its quite clear that Anglo Americans bear just as much if not even more responsibility than the German Elite for the horror & tragedy which was Nazi Germany. The German people should be allowed to free themselves of this artificially placed guilt. & by that i mean even those Germans who served in the German military "under orders". Even Nazi concentration camps if there is no direct evidence linking them to crimes. As to why the " professional Nazi hunters, which are mostly Jewish or Zionist folks, are so quiet about the role of Wallstreet in the Rise of Adolf Hitler, Tarpley has an idea.:

Max Warburg ( Jewish executive of a Shipping concern owned by the American-Nazi business coalition) replied on March 27, 1933, assuring his American sponsors that the Hitler government was good for Germany: “ For the last few years business was considerably better than we had anticipated, but a reaction is making itself felt for some months. We are actually suffering also under the very active propaganda against Germany, caused by some unpleasant circumstances. These occurrences were the natural consequence of the very excited election campaign, but were extraordinarily exaggerated in the foreign press. The Government is firmly resolved to maintain public peace and order in Germany, and I feel perfectly convinced in this respect that there is no cause for any alarm whatsoever. ”@s3@s0

This seal of approval for Hitler, coming from a famous Jew, was just what Harriman and Bush required, for they anticipated rather serious “ alarm ” inside the U.S.A. against their Nazi operations.

On March 29, 1933, two days after Max’s letter to Harriman, Max’s son, Erich Warburg, sent a cable to his cousin Frederick M. Warburg, a director of the Harriman railroad system. He asked Frederick to “ use all your influence ” to stop all anti-Nazi activity in America, including “ atrocity news and unfriendly propaganda in foreign press, mass meetings, etc. ” Frederick cabled back to Erich: “ No responsible groups here [are] urging [a] boycott [of] German goods[,] merely excited individuals. ” Two days after that, On March 31, 1933, the American-Jewish Committee, controlled by the Warburgs, and the B’nai B’rith, heavily influenced by the Sulzbergers (New York Times), issued a formal, official joint statement of the two organizations, counseling “ that no American boycott against Germany be encouraged, ” and advising “ that no further mass meetings be held or similar forms of agitation be employed. ”@s3@s1
The American Jewish Committee and the B’nai B’rith (mother of the “ Anti-Defamation League ”) continued with this hardline, no-attack-on-Hitler stance all through the 1930s, blunting the fight mounted by many Jews and other anti-fascists.

Thus the decisive interchange reproduced above, taking place entirely within the orbit of the Harriman/Bush firm, may explain something of the relationship of George Bush to American Jewish and Zionist leaders. Some of them, in close cooperation with his family, played an ugly part in the drama of Naziism. Is this why “ professional Nazi-hunters ” have never discovered how the Bush family made its money?"


Simply disgusting!
 
:lmao: Hahaha! Starts off as a nice satire mghani, but kinda becomes too obvious when you get to the part about NATO committing genocide in Sirte. No-one's brain-dead enough to actually believe stuff like that!

Good try though, old chap. :)
 
:lmao: Hahaha! Starts off as a nice satire mghani, but kinda becomes too obvious when you get to the part about NATO committing genocide in Sirte. No-one's brain-dead enough to actually believe stuff like that!

Good try though, old chap. :)

I was going to say something about that, but I couldn't tell if it was a troll thread or not. Thanks.
 
However, history tells a different story. The ordinary people of Germany after world war 2 have had to bear the crushing burden of collective guilt associated with the Jewish holocaust. This horror has been attributed to the "character of the German people", when in fact it was the shared responsibilty of the German political & intellectual elite. Among the persons who would be the quickest to point out the holocaust as a phenomenon not altogether Western (or as something not encompassing values associated with the broader Western world) but someting peculiarly German, would be the Anglo-Americans. Even up to today the Americans boast about of never having been imperialist, inspite of the trail of Mass graves left in Latin America as a result of their historical intervention, especially during the era of " communist threat". The British are even worse; not only do they admit to being Imperialists, but they openly boast that it is the best thing that ever happened to human history. Every year during Emancipatiopn, black people are subjected to the ironic & almost amusing horror of watching white English men boast about ending slavery in the West Indies, an institution which they were responsible for creating in the first place. This racist psycopathy is best exemplified in writers like Nial Fergusson, a racist pseudo scientist and intellectual ( who would be at home in Hitler's Germany) openly promoting uniquely British & moronic concepts such as the advantages of British colonialism. He also wrote a book called the West & the Rest, laying out for readers in the 21st century why the Western race is the Truly " Master Race" ( my words not his).

Good stuff.
 
If it were written in the 1950s. Only a fringe minority of American and British people* don't acknowledge and completely disavow their country's historical crimes. Niall Ferguson is in that fringe. Also, the notion that the German people are just an inherently amoral or militaristic people was dying before the end of World War II, as seen by Truman's veto of the Morgenthau Plan.

*I thought I should disclaimer this with "... who are educated enough to even vaguely know what they're talking about..."
 
I'm afraid the argument of the OP lost credibility for me when it asserted that "the British" go around boasting about how wonderful the British Empire was. It then lost what remained when it got both Niall Ferguson's own name, and the name of his book, wrong, when it misrepresented the contents of said book, and when it described him as a "pseudo-scientist". He's not a scientist at all, pseudo- or otherwise, he's a historian. And, yes, he's a right-wing apologist for imperialism, but he is not a racist or a Nazi, or if he is, he has successfully kept these views to himself.

Also, Samuel Kunz and John Demjanjuk were not guards in concentration camps. They were guards in death camps. That makes them directly involved in deliberate mass murder, a crime beyond any of those you charge Americans today with - which are indeed serious, but either currently remain unproven to the extent of the Holocaust, or are intrinsically less serious (anyone who really thinks that the human rights abuses at Guantanamo are as bad as what happened at the Treblinka extermination camp has lost all sense of reality).
 
It's taken roughly two hours for CFC to load for me to say this (not hyperbole) but, provided it doesn't crap out on me again after I type this, here goes:

I thought Truman nixed the Morgenthau Plan for more practical reasons than ideological ones. Namely, the fact that he needed the Germans as a bulwark - or at least a buffer - against the Soviets.
 
I'm afraid the argument of the OP lost credibility for me when it asserted that "the British" go around boasting about how wonderful the British Empire was. It then lost what remained when it got both Niall Ferguson's own name, and the name of his book, wrong, when it misrepresented the contents of said book, and when it described him as a "pseudo-scientist". He's not a scientist at all, pseudo- or otherwise, he's a historian. And, yes, he's a right-wing apologist for imperialism, but he is not a racist or a Nazi, or if he is, he has successfully kept these views to himself.

a historian is a scientist, especially when he specialises in economic & financial history. & who else but racists apologises for imperialism?
 
a historian is a scientist, especially when he specialises in economic & financial history. & who else but racists apologises for imperialism?
History is not a science, and historians are not scientists. How exactly can a historian conduct experiments or perform observations on multiple occurences of the exact same incident under laboratory conditions? This is the same reason sociology and anthropology aren't sciences.
 
Why persecute these old men & let their American or Nato counterparts go free?

Because the americans denie that they ever did war crimes? The allies did many war crime in WWII but everyone see only the nazi war criminals. To understand the westerners did no war crime and the nazi did all war crimes in the world. I dont support the nazi but i dont like the american propaganda that no war crimes heppend by americans.
 
*I thought I should disclaimer this with "... who are educated enough to even vaguely know what they're talking about..."

Precisely why I think that message bears repeating here.

History is not a science, and historians are not scientists. How exactly can a historian conduct experiments or perform observations on multiple occurences of the exact same incident under laboratory conditions? This is the same reason sociology and anthropology aren't sciences.

To be fair, there are people who think it sort of is (and, of course, they are clueless). I don't know if Niall Ferguson is one of those who think that history approaches a scientific sense of objectivity, but I've seen people argue to that effect here.
 
a historian is a scientist, especially when he specialises in economic & financial history.

No, he isn't. If you use "scientist" in such a broad fashion then it becomes pretty much meaningless. There's a reason why university history departments are found within the arts faculty, not the sciences faculty. Moreover, if you accuse someone of being a "pseudo-scientist", as you did in this case, then you're saying that they present themselves a scientist but deliberately use flawed methodology or are otherwise academically not respectable. But you haven't given any reason to suppose that this is the case with Niall Ferguson.

& who else but racists apologises for imperialism?

Obviously, people who think that the British Empire brought more benefits to the areas it ruled than it did harm. And Niall Ferguson is one of those people. This may well be a misguided view - I don't know enough about the subject to say - but I don't see what's racist about it. If your claim that he's a racist is based solely upon (a) the fact that he defends imperialism, and (b) your prior assumption that anyone who does that is a racist - a prior assumption which you can articulate only as a rhetorical question, which suggests that you don't have any rational support for it - then it's not a very well supported claim.

I would at least ask this: have you read the book in question by Ferguson?
 
Mghani:

mghani said:
...(under orders)...
...(also under orders)...
..."under orders"...

Committing crimes "under orders" does not exempt anyone from criminal liability.

Check for example Art. 8 of the Statute of The International Military Tribunal. Or regulations of any national Penal Code.

Circumstance of acting "under orders" can only be the basis for mitigation of punishment.

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Edit:

Here it is:

http://www.icls.de/dokumente/imt_statute.pdf

"Article 8.

The fact that the Defendant acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior shall not
free him from responsibility, but may be considered in mitigation of punishment if the Tribunal
determines that justice so requires."
 
No, he isn't. If you use "scientist" in such a broad fashion then it becomes pretty much meaningless. There's a reason why university history departments are found within the arts faculty, not the sciences faculty.
Well, in Russia we do say that history is a "humanities science", as opposed to "exact science". Granted, the archaic meaning of Russian word "science" is just "lesson", "learning".

(anyone who really thinks that the human rights abuses at Guantanamo are as bad as what happened at the Treblinka extermination camp has lost all sense of reality).
You Zionist imperialist agent! How much did Mossad and the FBI pay you for posting this? :mad:
 
I thought Truman nixed the Morgenthau Plan for more practical reasons than ideological ones. Namely, the fact that he needed the Germans as a bulwark - or at least a buffer - against the Soviets.

They're only a buffer against the Soviets provided they're not an inherently amoral or militaristic people guaranteed to start World War III, right?
 
Obviously, people who think that the British Empire brought more benefits to the areas it ruled than it did harm. And Niall Ferguson is one of those people. This may well be a misguided view - I don't know enough about the subject to say - but I don't see what's racist about it.

Theoretically it could be not racist, but in practice -- and especially with the British Empire -- it certainly is, since imperialism was about Britain bringing "mighty European civilization" to "backwards savages" in Africa, Asia and Oceania. Believing that multiple instances of genocide were worth the railroads and hospitals built in their colonies is tantamount to saying that the natives' lives were worthless.
 
Theoretically it could be not racist, but in practice -- and especially with the British Empire -- it certainly is, since imperialism was about Britain bringing "mighty European civilization" to "backwards savages" in Africa, Asia and Oceania. Believing that multiple instances of genocide were worth the railroads and hospitals built in their colonies is tantamount to saying that the natives' lives were worthless.

Not necessarily. Suppose someone thought that many natives' lives were saved by the British Empire - perhaps because of better medicine or improved infrastructure or the eradication of cruel traditional practices - then they might plausibly say that, although many natives were killed, these were outnumbered by those who were saved. And that therefore it was worth it. Such a calculation might be over-mechanical and un-nuanced, but it would not presuppose that the people's lives were worthless - on the contrary, it would presuppose that they were worth something, merely that more of them are, together, worth more than fewer of them.

Second, even if someone did think that the natives' lives were worthless, that wouldn't necessarily be racist. It would only be racist if they thought that English lives were worth more. But someone might think that all lives are worthless. That would not be a particularly palatable position to hold, but it wouldn't be racist.

All of this is just theorising, though. In the case of Niall Ferguson I asked for evidence of actual racist views in his work and haven't been given any. I should say that I don't much care for Ferguson and disagree with him, so I'm not defending his views, I'm just saying that he doesn't deserve the caricature of his position presented in the OP.
 
this is what i hate the most about this forum--the tendency for debates to descend into the kind of semantical nightmare which people like Plotinus specialise in. Niall Ferguson is a pseudo-intellectual; i call him a pseudoscientist because he specialises in financial & economic history. it is not possible to specialise in economic and financial history at the level of Niall Ferguson without getting at least an undergraduate degree in Finance and economics. Financial & economic studies requires intricate knowledge of the science of Maths and Statistics. And if by any chance , Niall Fergusson has no expertise in economics, then that makes him even more of a pseudoscientist, as he promotes himself as an expert on the subject, even pitting himself against Nobel Prize Winners for Economics such as Paul Krugman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb6GWedfz9E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJDI-0aSz1E&feature=related

Here is what Krugman & others had to say about that intellectual fraud.

Krugman has argued that Ferguson's view is "resurrecting 75-year old fallacies" and full of "basic errors". He has also stated that Ferguson is a "poseur" who "...hasn't bothered to understand the basics, relying on snide comments and surface cleverness to convey the impression of wisdom. It's all style, no comprehension of substance."[56][57] J. Bradford DeLong of Berkeley agreed with Krugman, concluding "Niall Ferguson does indeed know a lot less than economists knew in the 1920s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Ferguson

And anyone who cares to portray British empire as anything other than the implementation of a prison planet designed for the sole purpose of reaping maximum benefits for a British oligarchy, demoniacal in its thirst for wealth, power & control is a RACIST.
 
And anyone who cares to portray British empire as anything other than the implementation of a prison planet designed for the sole purpose of reaping maximum benefits for a British oligarchy, demoniacal in its thirst for wealth, power & control is a RACIST.
Why?

By the looks of how you use the term: Because it sounds bad?:scan:
 
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