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MrBling
Aug 21, 2003

Oozing machismo
In the academic world is "The Holocaust" as a topic mostly centred on the extermination of the Jews as it is in mainstream media or is there acknowledgement of all the millions of other people that were killed in the camps as well? It just seems odd to ignore that at least as many Slavs, Romani, Poles, Russian POWs, Freemasons, Homosexuals and Freemasons were killed as Jews.

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MrBling
Aug 21, 2003

Oozing machismo
Have you done any reading on Esoteric Nazism/Hitlerism? I find it to be one of the most interesting things to have come out of the whole Hitler thing.

Savitri Devi saw Hitler as Kalki the final avatar of Vishnu, the destroyer of foulness come to usher in the end of Kali Yuga, the age of vice and the final of four stages the world goes through in a cycle. Essentially it was more of an attempt to deify Hitler and unify Germans and Hindus in some sort of Aryan partnership.

Of course, Miguel Serrano's whole thing about Aryan blood being extraterrestrial in origin and Hyperborean gods and UFOs is pretty funny too.

MrBling
Aug 21, 2003

Oozing machismo
Denmark was viewed by Hitler as a model protectorate of the Nazi Empire, since it was a country of fellow Aryans he wanted to show the world how nicely they would treat occupied countries.

The occupation of Denmark wasn't really intended at first, it was more a target of opportunity since the German army was passing up through Jutland to get to Norway and their naval bases and resources. The Germans realised that since Denmark didn't really have much of an army they might as well take the country and the rather sizeable farming industry so they could feed their military.

The Danish government chose to cooperate with the Germans (something which has recently been condemned by politicians here as unforgivable, but it's not like there really was any other option) to make sure they would retain the most amount of power. The country essentially continued as usual, only with some German oversight. Eventually the resistance movement became enough of a nuisance that the Germans dissolved the government and ran the country.

MrBling
Aug 21, 2003

Oozing machismo
I think the attention that Nazi Occultism or Esoteric Hitlerism gets is more down to people like Miguel Serrano and Savitri Devi being nutbags trying to prove that Hitler is a god (or more accurately an avatar of Vishnu) and in Serranos case an entire theory on Aryans being descended from aliens.

Crazy makes for interesting documentary programmes on NatGeo and Discovery Channel though, and it really is quite interesting to read about.

MrBling
Aug 21, 2003

Oozing machismo
Was there any ever chance of Spain entering WW2 after Germany helped Franco win his civil war? Surely the Allies must have been a bit wary of it happening, even if Germany seemingly mostly helped out Franco to take focus away from themselves and what they were doing.

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MrBling
Aug 21, 2003

Oozing machismo

Geoj posted:

Didn't the nazis more or less play fast & loose with all of their silly rules when it suited them?

Rules are the people being ruled, not the rulers. That is a more or less universal thing.

But yeah, when you start having honourary aryans the whole racial thing kinda goes out the window.

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