Il s’agit de decisions majeures… La France veut garder la capacite’ de faire la guerre. L’inflation de 1923 etait, a mon avis un phenomene politique et proto Nazi. Schacht, l’ingenieur de l’hyper inflation, dix ans plus tard s’etait revele’ le plus grand support d’Hitler… Et il etait depuis longtemps l’instrument de JP Morgan…
Je pense que la rue peut amener une evolution imprevue. Je pense ausi que la France et l’Allemagne collaborent, et que, tant qu’elles collaborent, l’Europe s’en tirera.
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In truth it could have much worse for them, Nazis. If Petain and his fellow putschists had not called for a ceasefire, and if France had not applied stupid nationalistic reflexes such as refusing to send the hundreds of captured Nazi pilots to Canada, as the UK was asking, France could have gained air supremacy above… France, in July 1940. retreating to Algiers was also a no brainer. (The fact that was not done resulted, in my opinion, in the Franco-Algerian Civil war… which started May 8, 1945, by my own reckoning… And is still ongoing subterraneously, see the Algerian refusal to let France intervene in Mali.)

In any case, the Nazis engaged in mass war crimes in Poland against the Poles in 1939, and in France in 1940… Practice makes perfect. Having crossed that psychological Rubicon made starting the mass massacre of Jews in June 1941 just more of the same. Overall, the Nazis applied holocaust methods to more than 30 nationalities and ethnic groups… The funny fact being that many of the top Nazis looked like embarrassingly inferior racial types, and ought to have eliminated first on purely esthetic grounds (as was pointed out at the time).

By July 1943, Von Manstein judged Hitler, whose will faltered at Kursk, to be “weak”. By 1945, most of the Nazis revealed themselves to be cowards. See Martha Goebbels poisoning her 6 children, although some tried to resist and live… There are no words for people like that.
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At last one African officer must be mentioned in this context. Captain Ntchorere has a statue and a city square in Libreville, and a monument in France as well. He found himself the surviving senior officer of a motley group of Belgian, French and African soldiers, blocking the German advance for three full days around his position in a small wood, and surrendering only for lack of ammunition. The Germans were admirative of his resistance, and enraged to find he was black.

In a development much like the fictitious River Kwai Bridge story, he refused, as an officer, to be put to work with the soldiers, and was shot by the Nazis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_N'Tchoréré

The way I look at it, plutocracy is a social phenomenon attached to civilization. It’s not a basic instinct, like fascism is. Plutocracy itself is the product of three factors: a) animal instincts of the most basic types (hunger, will to power, territoriality) + b) capital, the fruit of civilization + c) the exponential function. I am not saying that’s a big time tragedy, anymore than the fact by car can go from zero to 60 in 4 seconds is a big time tragedy. I am not Proudhon. It just say that it’s a danger, with an exponential character, and which bends minds, both of individuals and civilizations.
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Many Jewish organizations cooperated with Hitler, as Hannah Arendt pointed out strongly, and she was hated for that truth… To which I arrived to independently, along a different, deeper path.

An example is the Dreyfus affair in France; French Jews and their friends made a huge deal of it, accusing the state (on rather tenuous grounds) of “antisemitism“. It forced France to extirpate *most* of dangerous “antisemitism”. Conclusion when the Nazis occupied France, they killed only 75,000, most of them non French, a small fraction of the total number of Jews in France.

By comparison about 120,000 Jews were assassinated in the Netherlands, i.e., most of the Jews there, and most of them Dutch.

Some Jews made a famous trial of god, from inside the extermination camp where they were caged. It’s precisely too much trust in god that led Central European Jews to avoid confronting the authorities’ antijudaism. (As the Cynics insisted,) it is always wiser to be watchful of dogs howling from within men, than trust an imaginary god caring from above.
God was the central mistake of European Central European Jewry, and is because it was atheistic that Jewry survived so well in France… But French Jews never spoke Yiddish, and Judaism in Gallia/Francia was (nearly always) a more relax affair.
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