People who know my are familiar with my writings about all things Fascist. Well this is repost of a previous diary.
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Golly gee whiz, I've been writing about the pervasive reuse of Nazi propaganda themes for over five years, but I never got around to the theme of the persecution of Christians by Jews and their liberal henchmen.
But it's only recently I got around to checking out "The International Jew," first published by famous antisemite Henry Ford as a serial in his insanely antisemitic rag, the Dearborn Independent. Ford was a personal hero of Hitler, who praised Ford in Mein Kampf. He hosted Ford in Germany, where Ford attended the antisemitic Oberammergau Passion Play.(photo of Ford in Germany). Hitler also awarded Ford the highest civilian version of the Iron Cross, and the photo of this event was public relations fiasco for the aging Ford. Ford helped the Nazi industrialization effort, and his German factories used slave labor. After America declared war on Germany and Ford began supplying the US military, Henry Ford seemed to be less than 100% committed to the Allied war effort.
Ford's newsletter was published in the early 1920s although he denied knowing its racist contents (just like Ron Paul!). A compilation of articles was translated into German in 1923 and published by the Nazi party as "The International Jew." It is said that Hitler had a copy of "The International Jew" while writing "Mein Kampf" and plagiarized parts of it.
According to wikipedia:
At the Nuremberg Trials, Baldur von Schirach mentioned that The International Jew made a deep impression on him and his friends in their youth and influenced them in becoming antisemitic. He said: "... we saw in Henry Ford the representative of success, also the exponent of a progressive social policy. In the poverty-stricken and wretched Germany of the time, youth looked toward America, and apart from the great benefactor, Herbert Hoover, it was Henry Ford who to us represented America." In 1922, The New York Times reported that Adolf Hitler's office contained a large picture of Ford. A well-thumbed copy of the International Jew was found in his library.I did not know what modern themes I'd find in "The International Jew," but I got a hint when I found it on the Australian white Christian nationalist anti-New-World-Order Bible Believers website, which has "The International Jew" and lots of other antisemitic material. Bible Believers is a notoriously eccentric pseudochristian antisemitic Holocaust denial site. Feel free to take a minute to bang your head on the desk. Feel better?
It's important to remember that Nazism was above all a conspiracy theory, and that modern conspiracy subculture is never more than two mouse clicks away Fascist and holocaust denial web sites. I'm not sure how Bible Believers would describe themselves, but it's a good place to look for "Christians" recycling Nazi themes.
OK, let's all goosestep over the apricot strudel.....
