Showing posts with label anti-Semitism. Show all posts
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Monday, January 27, 2020

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Few people know the consequences of anti-Semitism


Holocaust Remembrance Day: Few people know the consequences of anti-Semitism

By Julio Severo
A new survey claims Americans are forgetting the Holocaust and the consequences of anti-Semitism.
The Pew Research Center report, “What Americans Know About the Holocaust,” said 45 percent of almost 11,000 Americans surveyed didn’t know the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War II.
The report asked the question: “Are those who underestimate the death toll simply uninformed, or are they Holocaust deniers — people with anti-Semitic views who ‘claim that the Holocaust was invented or exaggerated by Jews as part of a plot to advance Jewish interests?’”
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is the anniversary of the date when the Red Army of the Soviet Union liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. Auschwitz, which is in current Poland, was the most notorious in a system of death and concentration camps that Nazi Germany operated on territory it occupied across Europe. In all, 1.1 million people were killed there, most of them Jews from across the European continent.
World leaders on January 23, 2020 denounced the rising threat of anti-Semitism and vowed never to forget the lessons of the Holocaust at a solemn ceremony in Israel marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Auschwitz death camp.
The World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, the largest-ever summit of its kind, drew more than 45 world leaders, including German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Russian President Vladimir Putin. U.S. President Donald Trump did not attend, but he sent his vice-president, Mike Pence. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was invited, but he did not attend and he did not send his vice-president. In 2019, when visiting the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem Bolsonaro was corrected by its director after claiming that Nazism was a left-wing movement.
Among the speakers was Steinmeier and Putin.
Steinmeier said he stood before the audience “laden with the heavy, historical burden of guilt.”
“Germans deported them. Germans burned numbers on their forearms. Germans tried to dehumanize them, to reduce them to numbers, to erase all memory of them in the extermination camps. They did not succeed,” he said.
Nazi extermination of the Jews would never have succeeded if there were not centuries of widespread anti-Semitism in Europe. This anti-Semitism was essentially Catholic and its most prominent symbol of strength is the Inquisition, which tortured and murdered multitudes of Jews for centuries. Both the Holocaust and the Inquisition have their equal shares of deniers today.
There are three main anti-Semitic threats today in Europe: Islamic, Nazi and Catholic.
The first threat is Islamic anti-Semitism, which is very present in Islamic nations, and it is a consequence of the huge wave of Muslim immigrants invading Europe. These immigrants bring with them the same cultural and religious baggage of anti-Semitism they had in their original nations. It is, by far, the most aggressive and expansionist anti-Semitism today in Europe. They are deniers of the Holocaust.
The second threat is Nazi sympathizers, who remember Nazism and deny the Holocaust.
The third threat is Catholic traditionalism or nationalism. It is impossible to separate anti-Semitism from the centuries-old Catholic political and legal culture in Europe.
A survey of 14 European countries undertaken in 2019 found a quarter of Europeans hold anti-Semitic beliefs with Polish people the worst offenders.
Poland, which is today the most conservative Catholic nation in Europe, is seeking a Catholic “revival” to live the old Catholic days of its nation. The problem is that the old Catholic days in Poland include plenty of Catholic anti-Semitism 200, 400 and 500 years ago.
Another problem of traditionalist or nationalist Catholics is that many of them are rabid deniers of the Inquisition.
In early 2018, Poland, which is considered today a model of Catholic conservatism, saw an explosion of anti-Semitic language in public life — on public television and even by public officials — after the conservative nationalist Catholic ruling party passed legislation banning certain kinds of speech remembering the Holocaust. Such ban drew sharp remarks from Israel.
Polish European Parliament member Sylwia Spurek stirred up controversy on January 21, 2020 after tweeting a drawing by vegan artist and activist Jo Frederiks depicting cows walking through a slaughterhouse corridor in clothes reminiscent of those worn by Jews in Nazi concentration camps. Essentially, the Polish European Parliament member compared Holocaust to animal abuse.
The Polish case is interesting because Poland is one of the strongest examples of European nations resisting Islamic invasion, which entails anti-Semitism. But the Polish Catholic nationalism entails its own kind of traditional Catholic anti-Semitism. Even though a progressive, Pope Francis has fought nationalism and anti-Semitism. What is happening in Poland is not approved by Francis.
The survey also found that in Ukraine anti-Semitism, which was 32 percent in 2016, now is 46 percent. In 2018 Ukraine decided to honor a nationalist leader whose movement sided with the Nazis during World War II, drawing sharp remarks from Israel’s ambassador.
A good way to honor the Holocaust Remembrance Day is remembering that anti-Semitism in its Islamic, Nazi and Catholic form is a threat to humankind.
With information from FoxNews, Jerusalem Post and DailyMail.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Luther and the Jews


Luther and the Jews

By Julio Severo
Dr. Michael Brown wrote an excellent article in which he, quoting Stephen Nichols, said that “in 1523, Luther reached out with kindness and humility to the Jewish people, denouncing how the church had treated them up until then with the hope that many would become Christians. Twenty years later, when that did not happen, and when Luther, now old and sick, had been exposed to some blasphemous, anti-Jesus writings penned by Jews in past generations, he wrote his infamous document ‘Concerning the Jews and Their Lies.’”
Luther and the Bible
You can read Brown’s full article, titled “Was Martin Luther an Anti-Semite?” here.
Another important article, also titled “Was Martin Luther an Anti-Semite?” and written by Dr. Eddie Hyatt, shows that Luther used vitriolic words against Jews, Muslims, Catholics and Anabaptists and that they also used vitriolic words against him. You can read Hyatt’s full article here.
Brown explains how Adolf Hitler used Martin Luther’s words to persecute the Jews. Of course, Hitler also used the Bible to support Nazism. According to Ray Comfort, in his book “Hitler, God and the Bible,” Hitler made much public use of the Bible. But while Hitler had to pervert the Bible, he did not have to pervert any words of Luther against the Jews. Luther’s own words against the Jews were already perverted — and inexcusable.
They are inexcusable not only because he was the highest leader of the Protestant Reformation, but also claimed to be a follower of Jesus. “Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.” (1 John 2:6 ESV)
By criticizing the Jews, Luther did what all the European society, dominated by ancient anti-Jewish Catholic traditions, had been doing for a long time. Incidentally, while Luther was criticizing the Jews, the Catholic Church was also criticizing, and torturing, robbing and burning them at the fires of the Inquisition.
After all, Luther and his followers have no history of torturing, robbing, and burning Jews. They have no history of inquisition against Jews.
The United States, the largest Protestant nation in the world and the nation that most followed Luther’s guidance of putting the Bible at the center of everything, has no history of torturing, robbing, and burning Jews. The U.S. has no history of inquisition against Jews. On the contrary, as a Protestant nation, the U.S. has an incredible record of protection, partnership and friendship with the Jews and an enviable track record against the Inquisition.
More Bible reading (which is the main value of Protestantism) produces more defense of the Jews, although some Jews have different thoughts. Osias Wurman, who is Israel’s honorary consul in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, expressed concern about Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. in 2016 — a victory that was achieved largely through evangelical voters.
He spoke of this victory as if an increase in evangelical conservatism would produce an increase in pro-Holocaust sentiments, when the reverse is true. American evangelicals do not support the Holocaust and the Inquisition.
However, as a Brazilian Jew Wurman lost a great opportunity to denounce that there is an increase of pro-Inquisition stances among right-wing esoteric Catholics in Brazil. These pro-Inquisition far-right-wingers reject the Vatican’s current stance against the Inquisition and accuse Luther of having committed a “genocide” for his anti-Jewish views, when in reality the Inquisition represents the anti-Jewish words and actions of medieval Catholicism that was a major influence on Luther. This pro-Inquisition rightistism has been totally rejected by conservative evangelicals, who join the Jews in denouncing the Holocaust and the Inquisition.
To follow the U.S. conservative Protestantism leads to stances against the Holocaust and the Inquisition.
To follow medieval Catholicism leads to stances in support of the Inquisition, which fatally leads to the Holocaust.
Luther followed medieval European standards (which were entirely Catholic), and when he verbally attacked the Jews he did not follow the example of Jesus, who never taught his disciples to hate the Jews.
Jesus directed his disciples to pray and be careful. He said, “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:41 ESV) Luther’s temptation was strong and his flesh was weak. He fell into the prevailing temptation of his generation, which was before and after hostile to the Jews.
To follow social trends (all social personalities do this) and religious traditions (all religious leaders do this) is in conflict with vigilance and prayer.
Actually, if Hitler needed an anti-Jewish religious example against the Jews, he did not even need Luther, because the Catholic Church had abundant examples of several centuries of words and actions against the Jews. All that Luther said against the Jews the Inquisition was already practicing in abundance.
Hitler, who was an esoteric Catholic who shrewdly used left-wing and right-wing imageries, used Luther’s example because if he did not have this evangelical example, he would be left only with the abundant Catholic examples.
Luther’s Protestantism sought to free itself from Catholic traditions, and Luther himself had experience only with such traditions.
Luther lived in a 100 percent Catholic Europe. Everyone he knew were Catholics. All the opinions he heard were Catholic and anti-Jewish.
Luther’s generation was anti-Semitic. In fact, the whole Europe where Luther was born was Catholic and anti-Semitic.
Luther had toward the Jews the same hostility of an ordinary Catholic (from popes to priests), because he had been brought up as a Catholic. Although he and other Protestants had the same anti-Jewish hostility of Catholics, you did not actually see Luther and other Protestants killing Jews. They had hatreds or prejudices, but they did not practice them. They had no inquisitions against the Jews. They did not torture and kill Jews. In the same way, the Jews had their own hatreds or prejudices against Christians.
Whoever condemns Luther for his words against the Jews inevitably has to condemn the pope and the whole Catholic Church of that time not only for its words but also for its actions, especially the Inquisition, against the Jews.
A follower of Jesus would have for the Jews the love that Jesus had, and Luther initially had this love, because he wanted their conversion. But when he got old and sick, he changed his mind. And his idea became repugnant and hateful against the Jews, allegedly because he read blasphemous writings of Jews against Jesus Christ and Christians. However, Hyatt makes it clear that before his death, Luther returned to his more conciliatory attitude toward the Jews.
A Christian can never be guided by hatred. It was exactly the hatred of the Jews who supported the Inquisition, who looted, tortured, and killed Jews.
If Luther had as justification for his anti-Jewish hatred of Jewish books against Jesus Christ, today others would find as justification the fact that Karl Marx was a Jew and that Genrikh Yagoda, a Jew who founded and directed the NKVD (the successor of the KGB), was, accordingly with a Jewish writer in the Israeli newspaper Ynetnews, “the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century.”
In fact, in their strident propaganda against Marxism, Hitler and Henry Ford, the greatest American tycoon of that time, hated Soviet Marxism because Jews were mostly socialists in Germany and also because they held prominent positions of leadership in the Soviet Union.
In any case, the old and sick Luther who wrote a book against the Jews committed a grave sin. I totally disagree with all crazy ideas of the old and sick Luther against the Jews.
However, we should be fair and also disagree with the ideas and crazy words of the Jews against Jesus Christ and the Christians.
The Jewish Talmud and the rabbinic literature are totally against Christians, treating them in a despicable way. The Talmud may be the Jewish equivalent of Luther’s book, but it was written much earlier. In fact, the Talmud is much more harmful, because although no Lutheran and no evangelical put Luther’s anti-Jewish book on an equal footing with the Bible, religious Jews place the Talmud on a high degree very close to their Holy Scriptures (which is the Old Testament of Christians).
While no evangelical church has in its building Luther’s anti-Jewish book nor reads it from the pulpit, synagogues have the Talmud and read it along with the Scriptures.
According to the book “Jesus in the Talmud,” written by Peter Schäfer, published by the Princeton University Press in 2007, the Talmud and rabbinic literature treat Jesus as a depraved sorcerer son of a prostitute.
Quoting the Talmud, Schäfer said, “The most bizarre of all the Jesus stories is the one that tells how Jesus shares his place in the Netherworld with Titus and Balaam, the notorious archenemies of the Jewish people… Jesus’ fate consists of sitting forever in boiling excrement” (page 13).
Schäfer said that, according to the Talmud, Mary, “After she had been driven out by her husband and while she was wandering about in a disgraceful way she secretly gave birth to Jesus. And… because he [Jesus] was poor he hired himself out as a workman in Egypt, and there tried his hand at certain magical powers on which the Egyptians pride themselves; he returned full of conceit, because of these powers, and on account of them gave himself the title of God” (page 19).
The Talmud, according to Schäfer, said, “Jesus’ followers, who claim to be the new salt of the earth, are nothing but the afterbirth of that imagined offspring of the mule, a fiction of a fiction” (page 24).
While Protestants in general and Lutherans in particular reject Luther’s anti-Jewish views, religious Jews make no effort to reject the anti-Christian Talmud.
However, the Talmud’s crazy words against Christians and Luther’s crazy words against the Jews are only in the realm of ideas. If they were implemented, if Lutherans had acted like Genrikh Yagoda, it would be disgusting. Hence, even defending Luther and the Jews, I do not agree with them on every point, because of their crazy ideas against each other.
The Inquisition, of course, was worse because it was the implementation of crazy ideas. That is why I am against the Inquisition and I applaud the remarkable history of the United States in combating pro-Inquisition propaganda.
There is not in Lutheranism and Protestantism a tradition of Inquisition of torture and death against the Jews, although there is Luther’s book, which has anti-Judaism in words. In Catholicism there is in words and deeds, and the Inquisition is one of the great undeniable evidences.
Protestantism produced the United States, which has become the largest shelter of Jews the world has ever seen. And Brazil, the largest Catholic country in the world, has a history of the Inquisition, which tortured and killed many Brazilian Jews. In fact, the first Jews of New York in the 1600s were Brazilians who had fled the Inquisition in Brazil. The first Jewish cemetery in New York is composed of these Brazilian Jews persecuted by the Inquisition.
Luther’s original proposal was to value the Bible above all else. The United States did just that. The Protestant fruit in the U.S. was not only an immense cultural love for the Bible, but also a tolerance for the Jews never seen before.
The United States, which was founded by a 98 percent Protestant population, followed the Bible, as Luther pointed out, but did not follow Luther’s anti-Jewish sins.
With his imperfections, sins and even heavy opinions, Luther often sought to point to Christ. If an evangelical puts Luther above Jesus, he will be no better than the popes criticized by Luther.
A true evangelical must imitate Jesus and the Gospel, not Luther and other men. If he imitates Luther, he will utter many profanities, because this was one of Luther’s sins. And he will imitate Luther’s insane stance against the Jews, a stance totally imitated from the common Catholic customs of his day.
An evangelical who imitates the sins, dirty mouth and heavy opinions of Luther is not a follower of Jesus.
Last year, the Lutheran Church of Norway denounced Luther’s anti-Jewish writings. More churches of the Reformation should follow the example of the Lutheran Church of Norway.
Luther set a good example by denouncing the corruption of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, which has been working to repair some of these problems. But he eventually imitated one of the worst sins of the Catholic Church. Now, by following his own example of giving preeminence to the Bible, the Reformation churches have a moral and spiritual obligation to denounce the anti-Jewish views that took over an old, sick Luther.
Yet, Luther’s lasting good fruit is much better than his momentary anti-Jewish book: Because of Luther, America was born Protestant and became the best friend and refuge of Jews and Israel.
Another good fruit was Rev. Wurmbrand, a Lutheran Jewish minister who wrote several books against communism.
Portuguese version of this article: Lutero e os judeus
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Monday, September 14, 2015

Hitler’s Strident Anti-Marxism


Hitler’s Strident Anti-Marxism

Anti-Semitism and the Nazi Fight against Soviet Marxism

By Julio Severo
How could mostly Christian Germany be duped into the Nazi ideology? Rev. Erwin W. Lutzer, in his book “Hitler’s Cross: How the Cross of Christ was used to promote the Nazi agenda” (Moody Publishers), explains how German Christians embraced Adolf Hitler as a savior against Marxism:
“Many churchmen were duped. Father Falkan, a Catholic parish priest, said, ‘I must admit that I was glad to see the Nazis come to power, because at that time I felt that Hitler as a Catholic was a Godfearing individual who could battle communism for the Church … the anti-Semitism of the Nazis, as well as their anti-Marxism, appealed to the church.’”  
Actually, the anti-Marxism of the Nazis appealed not only to Catholics, but also to Lutherans, industrialists and conservatives in Germany. For them, Hitler was just using a socialist cloak (National Socialism) to combat an ideology very popular among the German working classes: communism.

Hitler’s Fight against Soviet Marxism

Soviet communism was threatening Germany and Hitler was able to unify conservative and Christian (Catholic and Protestant) Germans under the banner of total fight against Soviet Marxism. Hitler’s condemnation of Marxism was explicit. He said,
Ugly face of Marxism.
The destructive work of Marxism, its poisoning propaganda, dupes people.
Marxism should be destroyed
Democracy, as practiced in Western Europe today, is the forerunner of Marxism. In fact, the latter would not be conceivable without the former. Democracy is the breeding-ground in which the bacilli of the Marxist world pest can grow and spread.
I expressed for the first time the conviction that the question of the future of the German nation is the question of the destruction of Marxism.
A pestilence, such as Marxism.
Marxism will march with democracy until, by roundabout means, it succeeds in winning for its criminal aims the support of the sane national spiritual world which it is determined to eradicate.
the future of the German nation can be secured is the problem of how Marxism can be exterminated. I considered the disastrous policy of the Triple Alliance as one of the consequences resulting from the disintegrating effects of the Marxist teaching; for the alarming feature was that this teaching was invisibly corrupting the foundations of a healthy political and economic outlook… Sometimes they tried to cure the disease by doctoring the symptoms, which were taken as the cause. But since nobody recognized, or wanted to recognize, the real cause of the disease this way of combating Marxism was no more effective than the application of some quacks ointment.
These astoundingly anti-Marxist ideas, espoused by Adolf Hitler in his autobiography “Mein Kampf” (published in 1926), would conquer any modern anti-Marxist audience.
If, as socialist author George Orwell said, “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act,” then Hitler did a revolutionary act by saying the truth about Marxism. In fact, he revolutionized his generation with his anti-Marxism. And any other individual in our times courageous enough to say the truth about Marxism would be doing a revolutionary act.
With his strident and inflammatory anti-Marxist speech, Hitler led Germany into an incredibly anti-Marxist euphoria that ultimately gave him the total political power through democratic means. What especially propelled into power was the ideal environment: Germany was undergoing a heavy economic crisis.
Richard J. Evans, in his book “The Coming of the Third Reich” (Penguin Group, 2003), commented, “Small businesses and workshops were particularly badly hit. In their incomprehension of the wider forces that were destroying their livelihood, those most severely affected found it easy to believe the claims of Catholic and conservative journalists that Jewish financiers were to blame.”
Yet, in his political campaigns to get elected, Hitler did not focus on the Jews. His focus was Soviet Marxism. “In a speech delivered to hundreds of businessmen in 1932, Hitler blamed Marxism for Germany’s problems but didn’t even mention the Jews. Evans’ comment is apt here: ‘Antisemitism, so prominent in Nazi propaganda in the 1920s, took a back seat, and had little influence in winning the Nazis support in the elections of the early 1930s.’” (Joseph Keysor “Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Bible: A Scriptural Analysis of Anti-Semitism, National Socialism, and the Churches in Nazi Germany,” Athanatos Publishing Group.)
Eventually, his speech against Soviet Marxism assured him victory.
In his book “Hitler, God, & the Bible” (WND Books, 2012), Ray Comfort said, “If Hitler was anything, he was a master of propaganda. In order for the Nazi Party to rise, he campaigned for the end of Marxism…”
According to Comfort, he unified German churches in this mission.

Hitler’s Fight against Jewish Marxism

Yet, there was a problem. His truth and revolution included demonization of the Jews. Demonization of Marxism and demonization of the Jews went hand in hand. His motivation was anti-Semitism. He rejected Marxism because it had been created by a Jew. He rejected Marxism because it was being led prominently by Russian Jews. Even though he had not a focus on Jews in his 1932 campaign to get elected, Hitler said in his autobiography in 1926,
My eyes were opened to two perils, the names of which I scarcely knew hitherto and had no notion whatsoever of their terrible significance for the existence of the German people. These two perils were Marxism and Judaism.
In Russian Bolshevism we must see the attempt undertaken by the Jews in the twentieth century to achieve world domination.
Karl Marx, author of Das Kapital, was the son of Protestant parents, converts from Judaism. Like many others who later on identified themselves with Socialism, known previously in its Utopian forms in France, he was educated in the neo-Hegelian philosophy. At the time this markedly evolutionistic doctrine ran foul of Lutheran Christianity in a conventional and fundamentalistic form. There appeared to be no chance for reconciliation between philosophy and religion.
Therefore Marxism itself is nothing but the transmission, carried out by the Jew Karl Marx, of a long existing attitude and conception, conditioned by a view of life, to the form of a definite political creed: international Marxism. Without the basis of such a general, previously existing poisoning, the astounding political success of this doctrine would never have been possible. Karl Marx was really the only one among millions who, in the swamp of a gradually decomposing world, recognized, with the keen eye of the prophet, the most essential poison elements, took them out, in order to render them, like a magician of the black arts, into a concentrated solution for the quicker destruction of the independent existence of the free nations of this earth. But all this in the service of his race.
The Jewish doctrine of Marxism rejects the aristocratic principle in nature.
What gave Marxism its astounding power over the broad masses is in no way the formal work of Jewish labor of thinking, put down in writing, but rather the colossal oratorical wave of propaganda that took possession of the masses in the course of the years… This work has actually not been written for the great masses, but exclusively for the intellectual leaders of that Jewish machine of world conquest.
In their book “Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared” (Cambridge University Press 2009), Michael Geyer and Sheila Fitzpatrick revealed the Nazi fight against the Soviet Union was a racial fight. They said,
Hitler’s intent to conduct the war against the Soviet Union as a political-ideological and racial-ideological war of destruction… the readiness to conduct an anti-Bolshevik crusade implied an agreement to pursue the war as a racial war against “Jewish Bolshevism.”
At the same time, the authors admit, “Bolshevik Commissars… were often Jewish.”

Jewish Prominence

After Hitler’s election, the anti-Semitism seen in “Mein Kampf” was resurrected with vengeance, and Hitler returned to underscore the Jews as a so important threat as Soviet Marxism, making to appear that the Jews had an exclusively wicked prominence in everything. But this is a gross and malicious lie. Since God blessed Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants, the Jews have a prominence and excellence in everything they are involved in. Were Jews involved in the birth of the United States? Yes. The result? Excellent! Were the Jews involved in the birth of the Soviet Union? Yes. The result? Ugly.
If the Jews had prominence exclusively in wicked events, their detractors would have reason to condemn them. But this is not so. As everybody else, Jews are involved in wicked and good events. And because they have a special blessing from God, whatever they touch, good or evil, becomes much better or much worse. So, the right way to channel God’s blessing, especially economic blessings, granted to Jews is an union with true Christians. Such union and good channel happened in the birth of the United States. The wrong way to channel the Jewish blessings is to let atheists to use them to advance their cause. Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the most prominent abortionist in the world, was an atheist of Jewish extraction. He had overseen over 60,000 abortions in the U.S. His case could easily be used by anti-Semites to declare that all Jews are wicked. Yet, eventually Nathanson questioned his abortion business and left it. Besides, the only Savior of the humankind, Jesus Christ, is a Jew. He is such massive good Jewish example that easily surpasses any Jewish bad examples, especially Karl Marx.
Those who hate the Jews should remember that Jesus is not a Brazilian, an American, a Russian or Arabian. He is a Jew! Those who hate the Jews per se hate Jesus too.
Because of God’s covenant with the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Jews always have a big potential for extreme good or evil. Yet, no wicked Jew will surpass, in prominence, the supreme Good Jew, Jesus.
While Hitler’s motivation to attack Soviet Marxism was his hatred to the Jews, the Jews’ motivation to help found the Soviet Union was not hatred of Russians. The old czarist government was as anti-Semitic as the Catholic Inquisition or even the Nazi system. The Russian Jews, aided by American capitalists, helped to found the Soviet system to save the Jews from persecution and death from the czarist government.

Henry Ford: Jews, The World’s Foremost Problem

Hitler’s criticism of Marxism and, simultaneously, of Jews was in no way a pioneering work. Six years before the publication of “Mein Kampf” in Germany, auto magnate Henry Ford Sr. launched in the United States his anti-Semitic book “The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem,” published in 1920. “The International Jew” was published in a variety of languages and disseminated widely in the United States and abroad. The first Brazilian edition was published by publisher Globo in 1933. This American book, very popular today on the Internet, was much more stridently anti-Jew than “Mein Kampf” was. In it Ford said,
Werner Sombart, in his “Jew and Modern Capitalism” says, “If the conditions in America continue to develop along the same lines as in the last generation, if the immigration statistics and the proportion of births among all the nationalities remain the same, our imagination may picture the United States of fifty or a hundred years hence as a land inhabited only by Slavs [Russians], Negroes and Jews, wherein the Jews will naturally occupy the position of economic leadership.” Sombart is a pro-Jewish writer.
The question is, If the Jew is in control, how did it happen? This is a free country. The Jew comprises only about three per cent of the population; to every Jew there are 97 Gentiles; to the 3,000,000 Jews in the United States there are 97,000,000 Gentiles. If the Jew is in control, is it because of his superior ability, or is it because of the inferiority and don't-care attitude of the Gentiles?
The true capitalists of the world are Jews, who are capitalists for capital’s sake.
The Jews created capitalism, we are told. But capitalism has proved itself ill-behaved. So now, the Jewish creators are going to destroy their creation. They have done so in Russia. And now, will the American people be good and let their Jewish benefactors do the same in America?
But the Jews have not destroyed capitalism in Russia. When Lenin and Trotsky make their farewell bow and retire under the protective influence of the Jewish capitalists of the world, it will be seen that only Gentile or Russian capital has been destroyed, and that Jewish capital has been enthroned.
The conclusion, when all the facts are considered, is irresistible, that the Bolshevik revolution was a carefully groomed investment on the part of International Jewish Finance.
In the chapter 15, entitled “Is the Jewish ‘Kahal’ the Modern ‘Soviet’?” of his book, Ford says:
The Soviet is not a Russian but a Jewish institution. Nor is it the invention of Russian Jews of the present time, a new political device which has been set up as a vehicle of the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky; it is of ancient Jewish origin, a device which the Jews themselves invented to maintain their distinctive racial and national life after the conquest of Palestine by the Romans. Modern Bolshevism, which is now known to be merely the outer cloak of a long-planned coup to establish the domination of a race, immediately set up the Soviet form of government because the Jews of all countries who contributed to Russian Bolshevism had long been schooled in the nature and structure of the Soviet.
There is also a whole chapter, 19, entitled “The All-Jewish Mark on ‘Red Russia.’”
In the chapter 20, entitled “Jewish Testimony in Favor of Bolshevism,” Ford says:
It is very well known that “what Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent have so powerfully contributed to accomplish in Russia” is also being attempted in the United States.
“Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent” are not directed against capital. Capital is enlisted in their service. The only governmental order the Jewish effort is directed against is Gentile governmental order; and the only “capital” it attacks is Gentile capital.
Capitalist Ford’s thoughts were astoundingly similar to socialist nationalist Hitler’s. Later Ford publicly apologized for its anti-Semitic book and Hitler dismissed his own biography as nonsense.
Yet, “Mein Kampf” and especially “The International Jew” have been a particularly powerful tool today for anti-Semitic individuals trying to validate their hostile beliefs. While both books once reached thousands, their reach is now even greater on the Internet. Today, they can touch a whole new generation, connected to anti-Jew hatred via the internet. Both books have been favorite among Muslims.
Nearly 70 years before these books, the founder of Marxism expressed the same hateful ideas, as shown by Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian Lutheran minister of Jewish extraction based in America, in his booklet “Marx and Satan.” Rev. Wurmbrand said,
Though a Jew, Marx wrote a pernicious anti-Jewish book called The Jewish Question. In 1856, he wrote in The New York Tribune an article entitled “The Russian Loan,” in which we read: “We know that behind every tyrant stands a Jew, as a Jesuit stands behind every Pope. As the army of the Jesuits kills every free thought, so the desire of the oppressed would have chances of success, the usefulness of wars incited by capitalists would cease, if it were not for the Jews who steal the treasures of mankind. It is no wonder that 1856 years ago Jesus chased the usurers from the Jerusalem temple. They were like the contemporary usurers who stand behind tyrants and tyrannies. The majority of them are Jewish. The fact that the Jews have become so strong as to endanger the life of the world causes us to disclose their organization, their purpose, that its stench might awaken the workers of the world to fight and eliminate such a canker.”
Marx did not express his idea in Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, which did not exist in the 1850s. He did it in the heart of the American press, New York, in the most capitalist nation in the world.
Marx was a man involved in occultism who embraced a fight against capitalism, a fight that eventually brought disasters and genocides to humankind. The works and legacy of an occultist are spiritual confusion, deception and death.

Confusion: Was Hitler a Left-Winger or Right-Winger?

Two apparently contradictory issues in Hitler’s fight against Soviet Marxism were that 1) his Nazi movement was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, and 2) Nazi Germany was socialist because of its treaty lasting a few months in 1939 with the Soviet Union, the largest socialist power in the world in that time.
As a man profoundly involved in esoteric and occultist practices, Hitler was a master of trickery and shrewdly created a movement, with socialist appeal, to draw the German people away from Soviet Marxism. English libertarian Tim Stanley explains better his trickery and strategy:
So how do we explain why Hitler often called himself a socialist? It’s a matter of fashion: in the 1920s and 1930s, socialism was the wave of the future and had a massive effect upon the political discourse. Lots of people used the terminology of Marxism without necessarily signing up to it or even understanding it. And plenty of governments spoke of the need to raise living standards, help the poor or even manage the economy — but we wouldn’t call them Marxist. America had its New Deal; Sweden its Social Democracy. The Japanese militarised their entire country, but did so to expand the domain of an emperor that they thought was a living god, which is hardly classic commie behaviour. In Britain, Stanley Baldwin’s government spent millions on a house building programme and set up the state-owned BBC. But Stanley was no Stalin.
That Hitler wasn’t a socialist became apparent within weeks of becoming Chancellor of Germany when he started arresting socialists and communists.
Marxism is defined by class war, and socialism is accomplished with the total victory of the Proletariat over the ruling classes. By contrast, Hitler offered an alliance between labour and capital in the form of corporatism – with the express purpose of preventing class war. Marxists regarded this as one of the stages of capitalist development and few at the time legitimately interpreted the Third Reich to be a socialist society. The radical George Bernard Shaw, for example, certainly expressed sympathy for Hitler when he came to power but later described the dictator’s socialism as fraudulent – as a way of buying off the inevitable revolution. He wore, in Shaw’s opinion, “the latest mask of capitalism.”
Given that the dictator enjoyed the support of a bourgeoisie that accepted that sacrifices had to be made to defend their profits against socialism, we might define the Third Reich as capitalism embracing aspects of socialist economics in order to defend the interests of capitalists. Shaw was right.
Tim Stanley says that, for Hitler, defeating the “Jewish” communist movement was the only thing that ever really mattered.
Hitler’s occultist trickery is evident in the confusion that people face when trying to describe him today. For instance, whenever atheists insist that he was an example of Catholic and Christian chauvinism they forget his intense hatred of Christianity. Whenever Christians try to portray him as an atheist, they forget how happy he was to borrow Christian language or to work with Catholic and Lutheran collaborators. Whenever right-wingers try to portray him as a socialist, they forget his connections with industrialists and intense hatred of Soviet Marxism. And whenever left-wingers try to portray him as a right-winger, they forget how he socialized the German economy in the latter part of the 1930s, although not for the sake of building socialism, but to prepare Germany for war.
Marxism’ main characteristic is by far atheism. The most atheist nation in the world, for example, was Soviet Union. In contrast, Hitler was never an atheist. Nominally, he was Catholic, even though in essence he was an esotericist.
In comparison to Stalin, an atheist, Hitler was so “religious” that Mussolini had, according to a report in The Telegraph, asked the pope to excommunicate him from the Catholic Church, out of envy, because he did not like to see Hitler, a Catholic German, closer to the pope than he, who was an Italian.
Just as many in his days, including Roosevelt, Hitler’s socialism was neither original nor atheist, but his anti-Marxism was esoteric. There were also other examples of esoteric anti-Marxism, even though they were lesser. The Traditionalist School, founded by the Islamic esotericist René Guénon, fused anti-Marxism conservatism with New Age ideas. Some anti-Marxist esotericists today are Trevor Loudon and Olavo de Carvalho.
Regardless you choose to see Hitler as a left-winger or right-winger, he was an occultist. A man involved in occultism will use any cause available, whether it is a leftist or rightist cause, to advance his covert objectives. In Hitler’s case, his main banner was the fight against the Jews and Soviet Marxism. Whatever cause or fight he embraced, against Marxism or against capitalism, would eventually end in disaster, because he was an occultist. The works and legacy of an occultist are spiritual confusion, deception and death.
As an evidence that Nazi Germany was exclusively socialist, many point to the 1939 Soviet-Nazi Pact, which lasted just a few months. Yet, if such short-lived union to the Soviet Union is an evidence that Nazi Germany was socialist, what would the same critics say about the U.S.-Soviet alliance, which lasted from 1941 to 1945 during the World War 2, for much more time than the short Soviet-Nazi alliance did?
The most important distinction was that while Nazi Germany slaughtered millions of Jews in Europe, the Soviet Union had Jews in its political and military leadership, including in the Red Army.
Though Henry Ford apologized for The International Jew, he later accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Hitler’s Nazi government in July, 1938. One of the most prominent American capitalists being awarded by a “socialist” government? As an anti-Marxist and anti-Jew capitalist, Ford was just being awarded by an anti-Marxist and anti-Jew government. He never received such award from the Soviet Union, which was Marxist and not anti-Jew, at least not while Hitler was living.

Inferior and Unintelligent Race: Jews and Russians?

Adolf Hitler and Ford used the fact that Karl Marx was a Jew and that many advocates of Marxism in the Soviet Union were Jews as a fair pretext to demonize the Jews. With Ford and Hitler, demonization of Marxism and demonization of the Jews went hand in hand.
Today, in the demonization of Marxism, the Jew has been replaced by the Russian. Demonization of Marxism and demonization of Russians have gone hand in hand in many conservative circles, which seem to see Karl Marx as a Russian and, similarly, the advocates of Marxism as Russians. In fact, they seem to see Russians per se as personifications of evil and Marxism, just as Hitler and Ford saw the Jews per se as personifications of evil and Marxism.
If previously there were infinite conspiracy theories about the Jews, now there are infinite conspiracy theories about Russians. These theories are interesting, because at the same time that traditionally Hitler and many others portrayed Russians as inferior and unintelligent Slavs incapable of high political and military projects, their propaganda presented Slavic or Russian conspiracies as phenomenally menacing. By the way, Jews were similarly seen as inferior and menacing.
Nazis were tremendously contradictory in their portrayal of Russians. For them, Russians were inferior, despicable (just because of their association with Jewish Marxists) and incompetent in military and political exploits. But they were, incredibly, an extraordinary and cosmic threat (again, just because of their association with Jewish Marxists)!
This Nazi propaganda has survived even after the Soviet Union fell in 1990. Today, pro-homosexuality Europe, often under pressure of an equally pro-homosexuality U.S., keeps portraying Russians as inferior, despicable and a threat, even though Russia is the only power protecting its society against the aggressive gay agenda. At the same time, Europe, with the U.S. blessing, has been receiving millions of illegal Muslim immigrants, whose beliefs do not merely reject the gay agenda, but kill homosexuals. They are especially fond of killing Christians. These immigrants and their Islamic fanaticism are a real threat and the European civilization is in serious danger of extinction because of them. Even so, Russians are portrayed as a bigger threat, even though the Russian opposition, different of the Islamic opposition, to the gay agenda does not involve murder of homosexuals.
Politically correct multiculturalism in Europe and the U.S. heartily embraces Muslims and their murderous ideology erroneously called “religion of peace,” but it does not tolerate Russians, who are mostly Orthodox Christians.
For the European and the U.S. multiculturalism, Orthodox Christian Russians are inferior to Muslims. Not different from the Nazi “multiculturalism,” which fully embraced alliances with Muslims while treating Russians as inferior.
In his booklet “Marx and Satan,” Rev. Richard Wurmbrand explains that the founder of Marxism had the same Nazi ideas about Slavs or Russians. He said,
Marx wrote in his new year’s roundup of 1848 about “the Slavic riffraff,” which included Russians, Czechs, and Croats. These “retrograde” races had nothing left for them by fate except “the immediate task of perishing in the revolutionary world storm.”
“The coming world war will cause not only reactionary classes and dynasties, but entire reactionary peoples, to disappear from the face of the earth. And that will be progress.”
“Their very name will vanish.”
Hitler and Marx shared at least three preferences: both were occultists and despised Jews and Russians.

Nazi Genocide of Russian POWs

Hitler’s hatred of Soviet Marxism and of the Jewish role in it was evident in the way Nazis treated Soviet POWs, perhaps especially because the Red Army had approximately 500,000 military Jews, among soldiers and high rank officials. Crystal Rayle, in “Captives of Hell: The Treatment of Soviet Prisoners of War Captured by the Nazi Army 1941-1942” (Greensboro Historical Review , issue 1, May 2008, published by the University of North Carolina, Greensboro) said,
Russian prisoners of war captured by the Nazi Wehrmacht during the Second World War survived some of the most inhumane forms of treatment imaginable. Nazi propaganda heavily influenced the belief that the Soviets were conspiring against Germany on the side of European Jewry, resulting in the capture and subsequent genocide of millions of Soviet POWs.
Historians tend to agree that the Germans treated Soviet POWs more ruthlessly than other POWs, including the notion that they were deliberately annihilated.
Aside from the Jews, the Soviet POWs were the second largest group of victims whose lives were claimed by the Nazi regime.
The Soviet POWs, even though they are the second greatest victims of World War II, tend to be regarded as the “other” victims. Although nothing can compare to the experiences of the six million Jews who lost their lives during the Holocaust, Soviet POWs deserve a stronger presence in the history of Genocide. The Nazis considered the Soviets, unlike other groups, political and racial enemies of the Reich. Soldiers sent off to defend the Soviet Union were persecuted because of their racial inferiority as a Slavic people as well as their political associations with Bolshevism [Soviet Marxism].
[Soviet] POWs became the earliest test subjects for the use of the poisonous gas Zyklon B [used later against the Jews].
Hitler’s reasoning for the hatred of Bolshevism and Communism arose out of his idea that Bolshevism was a product of the Jews.
Hitler demonized the Soviet people by describing them as having a Slav-tartar body with a Jewish head. Hitler believed that Marxism was a product of Jews.
According to Rayle, Hitler hated Russians because in his mind Jews and Soviet Marxists were basically connected.
Considering that Hitler — who was an ally of Islamic Palestinians and so tolerant of Islam, but not of Jews — has been defeated decades ago and that the Soviet Union has fallen many years ago, how to explain that America and Europe are so tolerant of Islam, which threatens to extinguish the American and European civilization, and so intolerant of Russia, whose Orthodox Christianity could be an ally against Islam, the greatest murder machine in the history?
If we want to destroy this machine, we should not do what Hitler did: to be an enemy of the Jews and to be a friend of their Islamic enemies.
Compared to Marxism, Islam is a significantly bigger threat. As shown by Hitler’s example, a strident fight against Soviet Marxism can be a cover for a big evil.
This is a survival war.
If America and Europe want to survive the Islamic and Marxist onslaught, they should not do as Hitler did. Instead, they should enlist and embrace the collaboration of Jews and Russians.
All of them should get rid of any Hitlerian and Islamic feelings, views and policies contrary to Jews and especially Israel.
And they should be careful about a strident fight against Marxism, which was the perfect cloak used by Hitler to fight the Jews. His spell of confusion is powerful even today.
Union with Jews (especially full recognition of the Promised Land as the God-given gift to them and of Jerusalem as its legitimate capital) can save America, Europe and Russia from an Islamic hellish future.
With information from Jewish Virtual Library, Mein Kampf, The International Jewish and Telegraph. 
Portuguese version of this article: O antimarxismo estridente de Hitler
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