Lets not get carried away

[W(TF)]

"If I were a Jew and were born in Germany and earned my livelihood there, I would claim Germany as my home even as the tallest Gentile German might, and challenge him to shoot me or cast me in the dungeon; I would refuse to be expelled or to submit to discriminating treatment. And for doing this I should not wait for the fellow Jews to join me in civil resistance, but would have confidence that in the end the rest were bound to follow my example. If one Jew or all the Jews were to accept the prescription here offered, he or they cannot be worse off than now. And suffering voluntarily undergone will bring them an inner strength and joy [...] the calculated violence of Hitler may even result in a general massacre of the Jews by way of his first answer to the declaration of such hostilities. But if the Jewish mind could be prepared for voluntary suffering, even the massacre I have imagined could be turned into a day of thanksgiving and joy that Jehovah had wrought deliverance of the race even at the hands of the tyrant. For to the God-fearing, death has no terror."

 

He never said the Jews should kill themselves.

 

He suggests that the Jews didn't resist, which is patently untrue...though the real resistance probably hadn't started in 1938 when he wrote that essay. But c'mon:

 

"to the God-fearing, death has no terror"

 

That is the biggest crock of shit ever, and is the premise for the worst "religious" atrocities the world has known. It could just as easily have been written by Osama Bin Laden, or the Crusaders.

 

Ghandi was out of his mind, literally.

[Scalzunfield]

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