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A consequence of the german ideology is a willed ignorance about the facts of WWII itself. Nearly all mainstream historians for the past thirty years—Broszat, Browning, Gerlach, Kershaw, Longerich, etc— think Hitler decided on the final solution in late 1941. There is dispute as to why—e.g. the failure of deportation efforts, the failure of operation Barbarossa, paranoia about Jews brokering the alliance between the US and Russia, and, perhaps most crucially, the entrance of the US into the war subsequent to Pearl Harbor. Göbbels seemed to concur with this view, writing in his own notebook following a Dec 12, 1941 meeting with Hitler: “He [Hitler] warned the Jews that if they were to cause another world war, it would lead to their own destruction. Those were not empty words. Now the world war has come. The destruction of the Jews must be its necessary consequence.”4 The minority view that Hitler had planned to commit genocide all along is, for many reasons, difficult to square with the evidence. Yet Germans dont merely hold this minority view, they cling to it and resist discarding it in the face of counterveiling evidence as if doing so would make them evil. The idea of Hitler being motivated by pure irrational hatred seems to grant them ethical status and security. Why? Because reasons would make Hitler, according to the ideology, less evil, and the whole cultural project is to subjectively distance oneself from Adolf Hitler by making him objectively as evil as possible. This project runs on pride, not humility. The reality is that Hitler blamed the Jews for the US entry to both WWI and WWII and that his anti-semitism had this predominant source. This doesnt make punishing all of european Jewry good,

On the (post-war) German Ideology the Neglected (Kriegs-) Generation and the Neglected Origin of Inter-Generational Animus Stephen Weller Jul 21 Father Gereon Goldmann was an SS soldier who was ordained without having finished his seminary education at the expressed wishes of the pope in the middle of WW2. Goldmann discerned his vocation before the start of the war and, rather than fight against the enemy, he began to care for the spiritual well being of his men. He would scavenge for consecrated hosts in chapels, churches and monasteries all throughout northern italy to return to nourish his brothers in arms. He would famously wield his pistol, not against the enemy, but against stingy priests and bishops who wouldnt let him depart with the Blessed Sacrament for his brothers. Learning of his desire to care for the souls of german soldiers, a religious sister organized hundreds of Nuns to pray for his ordination and safety. Their intercession proved remarkably potent. After He won a pe...
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