Everyone Should Remember the Holocaust
By Julio
Severo
The Holocaust, which was perpetrated by
Nazi Germany against over 6,000,000 Jews, who were monstrously abused, tortured
and slaughtered, is a genocidal crime that should be remembered by all nations.
Jews are correct to point that the Nazi
genocide against them should never be forgotten.
Christians — both Catholics and
Protestants — should remember because the largest Holocaust against the Jews
happened exactly in a Christian nation, Nazi Germany, which was about 50%
Catholic and 50% Protestant, especially Lutheran. Even though a minority of
courageous Catholics (including Claus von Stauffenberg) and Protestants
(including Lutheran minister Dietrich Bonhoeffer) opposed Hitler and even tried
to kill him, most German Protestants and Catholics supported Hitler, who was
nominally Catholic.
Some wicked Christian traditions helped
Hitler in his campaign to perpetrate the Holocaust. Catholics have a tradition,
in words and actions, of anti-Semitism, especially
through the Inquisition. Protestants have a tradition of anti-Semitic words
of Martin Luther, even though Protestants, especially in the United States — the
largest Protestant nation in the world — have a tradition of fight against
anti-Semitism. In fact, the U.S. fight against anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and
the Inquisition is the most important fight the world ever saw.
Right-wingers and left-wingers should
remember because the largest Holocaust against the Jews happened exactly in a
nation, Nazi Germany, which used right-wing and left-wing imageries in its
campaign against the Jews, even though the
predominant imagery was right-wing and Hitler had a clearly anti-Marxist
speech, which drew Catholics and Protestants.
Most Jews
who were exterminated by the Nazis in the Holocaust were socialist. In
fact, the founder of Marxism was a German Jew, a descendant of rabbis. The few
Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were also Marxist and they founded the State
of Israel.
Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews
because he thought they were an inferior race and because they were Marxist.
His “solution,” the Holocaust, was genocide.
Nazis
hated the Jews because they thought that they were an inferior race or because
most Jews were socialist. Others hate the Jews because a minority of them are
capitalist tycoons.
Yet, the Holocaust is not a past threat.
Its modern advocacy or revisionism or denial brings new threats. And this
threat is especially today among Muslims.
Muslims should remember the Holocaust
against the Jews because Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf, has been a
best-seller in Muslim nations. Many Muslims express admiration for Hitler and
the Holocaust, but strangely they are not criticized and condemned in the
Western media for their hatred of the Jews. This hatred is manifested in their
unending campaign to use any situation, especially the Palestinian case, to
condemn the Jews as “criminals” — as if Palestinian Muslims, who have illegally
occupied the Promised Land, were innocent victims.
The effort to portray the victim as the
aggressor and vice-versa is the soul of the Holocaust’s revisionism, very similar
to the Inquisition’s revisionism. Muslims love the Holocaust’s revisionism,
which diminishes the Jewish suffering and numbers of Jewish victims.
Even during Hitler’s time Muslims helped
Nazis in their campaign to exterminate the Jews.
Today, Muslims use two dishonest
revisionist methods to attack the Jews. They intentionally underestimate the
Jewish suffering in the Holocaust and they intentionally overestimate the
defensive actions of Jews to protect the State of Israel against Palestinian
terrorists. This is a natural result: if Muslims admire Hitler and the Nazi
atrocities against the Jews, they will support any Palestinian terrorist attack
against the Jews.
Muslims do not only advocate the
Holocaust’s revisionism. They also advocate the revisionism of the Genocide of
Armenian Christians. They do to Christians the same thing they do to the Jews.
Yet, while many Christians fight against
the Holocaust’s revisionism, few Jews fight against the revisionism of the
Genocide of Armenian Christians. In fact, the
Israeli government has resisted every effort to recognize the Genocide of
Armenian Christians. It is time for Christians and Jews to recognize
genocide against them. It is time also for Israel to recognize ISIS’s Holocaust
of Christians in Syria and help Christians persecuted by ISIS.
The remembrance of the Holocaust is most
important now that Europe has been invaded by hordes of Muslim immigrants who
are threatening Christians and their culture and threatening the Jews and their
survival, including by intentionally underestimating the Holocaust and its
Jewish victims and reviving anti-Semitism.
It is time to remember the Holocaust
before the next European generations, who will be significantly Muslim, forget
that the Jews are a people victim of genocide.
Nevertheless, left-wing Jews think that
the only threat of a repetition of the Holocaust is coming from conservative
Christians. Osias
Wurman, who is the honorary consul of Israel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, said,
“Today,
more than ever, it is necessary to warn the world public opinion about the
dangerous change of course rightward that has been ravaging Europe and some
nations in the American continent. A global poll, held in 2014, found that 46%
respondents had never heard about the Holocaust!”
Mr. Wurman made an impossible comparison.
He sought to equalize the conservative change of political course in Europe and
probably in the United States with indifference to the Holocaust. In a worse
tone, he has said that this change is “dangerous,” and he talks about the need to
warn the world against the change rightward that is “ravaging” Europe and
probably the United States.
As
far as evangelicals are concerned, conservatism, especially the U.S. conservatism,
is pro-Israel and against the Holocaust, against abortion, against the Catholic
revisionism of the Inquisition and against the Islamic revisionism of the
Armenian Genocide. Comparing pro-Holocaust feelings with the U.S. conservative
evangelicalism is nonsense. Jews would only face problems with some right-wing
Catholics who have been defending the revisionism of the Inquisition, which
tortured and slaughtered Jews. Sooner or later, they may also defend the
revisionism of the Holocaust.
Just as Christians need be informed to
remember the Holocaust, Jews also need to be informed that before the Nazi
Holocaust against the Jews there was the Islamic Turkish Genocide of Armenian
Christians. Regardless if Israel does not recognize such genocide against Christians,
it makes no sense for the Jews to encourage nations about the importance of
remembering the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews if the
Jews refuse to recognize the Islamic Turkish Genocide of Armenian Christians.
Besides,
there is a modern Holocaust that should be remembered by all of us who remember
the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews: The Holocaust of abortion, where millions
of innocent unborn babies are medically exterminated under insane laws. Even
Israel has such insane laws allowing the slaughter of innocents. In fact, Israel has one of the most liberal
abortion laws in the world. It makes no sense. The Jewish
people, who were innocent victims in the Nazi Holocaust, should be prominent
voices against the Holocaust of abortion.
On
this January 27, while we remember the past suffering of millions of Jews in
the Nazi Holocaust, let us remember also the present suffering of millions of
innocents through legal abortion. Let us remember to fight the Holocaust of
abortion, because the goal of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is to
hinder new holocausts from happening. While we are remembering the Holocaust
against the Jews, babies are being tortured and murdered right now by legal
abortion in the United States, in China, in Israel, in North Korea, etc.
If
Holocaust is criminal, why is the Holocaust of abortion allowed to continue?
Portuguese version of this article: Todos
precisam lembrar o Holocausto
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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