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Dinesh D’Souza’s Holocaust Propaganda

Hadding — Mon, 27 May 2019 19:44:00 +0000

“Hitler Didi,” about a young Indian woman with the strict, righteous, and forceful character of Adolf Hitler, was a soap opera produced by Zee TV in Dinesh D’Souza’s hometown of Bombay.

Discrimination based on ancestry is traditional and normal in India. Indians do not believe in equality, and they tend to be somewhat sympathetic toward Adolf Hitler, since he was the enemy of their enemy. Therefore it is natural that Dinesh D’Souza, as an immigrant from India, would feel no affinity for the kind of propaganda that has been used to cow the White man in the West.

D’Souza’s early work reflects that kind of inegalitarian outsider’s perspective. With Illiberal Education (1991) he criticized the unreasonable arrogance of uppity minorities at universities. With The End of Racism (1995) he explained that Blacks in the United States had only themselves to blame for their misfortunes. As late as 2014 D’Souza declared that there was no “genocide” of the Red man in North America.

Then came a change. There were always touches of distortion and exaggeration in D’Souza’s work, but with his arrest and incarceration for campaign finance fraud in late 2014 he seems to have come unhinged.

By 2016 D’Souza had taken a sharp turn toward dishonesty. He decided, instead of attacking the holy myths of leftist history, to make tenuous, hairsplitting arguments about who is to blame for those alleged crimes. Much of this new rhetoric from Dinesh D’Souza relates in some way to the Holocaust, which is of course the most powerful of the anti-White accusations.

Unfortunately for D’Souza’s followers, the most important arguments that D’Souza uses to try to link real and alleged phenomena of Hitler’s Germany to the Democratic Party turn out, on closer examination, to show much more influence from Republicans. Eugenicists Madison Grant, Lothrop Stoddard, and Paul Popenoe were all Republicans. The 1924 Johnson-Reed Act restricting immigration, which Hitler admired, was enacted mainly by Republicans. A man like Adolf Hitler, if a citizen of the United States in the 1920s, would much more likely have been a Republican than a Democrat.

D’Souza’s argument that Hitler was a socialist and therefore more like the Democrats than the Republicans is nugatory, because economic policy is not the point of comparison. (Incidentally, Republicans are foolish to disdain Hitler’s economics. They would do well to recognize Hitler’s economic policy as a way to keep working-class support.)

After Republicans and conservatives have loudly endorsed the playing of the Holocaust Card in American political discourse, only to find that it applies mainly to themselves, what defense can they make?

Republicans and conservatives who parrot Dinesh D’Souza’s arguments undermine their own cause.

Read the article at CODOH.com

Lighthearted Representations of Hitler from outside the Western World

Hadding — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:01:00 +0000

An advertisement for Biomen shampoo, from Turkey, presents Adolf Hitler as the arbiter of what a real man should do:

Why do you use a woman’s shampoo, when you do not wear women’s clothes? Now there is the 100% manly shampoo, Biomen! A real man chooses Biomen!

From India there is the warm family drama Hitler Didi.

Didi is an attractive young woman who has enough righteousness and self-discipline for twenty people. She constantly chides those around her to stop being slackers and do the right thing. Apparently this is how Hitler is perceived in India, as somebody who goes to extremes to bring out the best in others.

Hitler seems to be perceived in India and in Turkey as fundamentally a positive figure.

The Turkish shampoo commercial was pulled as a result of organized Jewish pressure:

“Decisive action by the leaders of the Turkish Jewish Community mobilized national and international public opinion against the shockingly offensive use of Hitler imagery for commercial purposes,” said David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee. “And in short order, the company responsible for this outrage reversed course.”

Turkish Jewish community leaders credited leading Turkish newspapers, including Milliyet and Hurriyet, with rallying public criticism of the commercial, and expressed gratitude for supportive commentary in news media and by Jewish organizations around the world, according to AJC. [Jewish Journal, 27 March 2012]

Hitler Didi, which debuted on 7 November 2011, still airs, but on 6 December as a result of organized Jewish pressure the name of the show was changed to General Didi — but only for marketing in the United States. In the rest of the world the show is still called Hitler Didi.

Apparently organized Jewish pressure is much less effective in India than in the United States or Turkey.

Admiration for Hitler Growing in India

Hadding — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:46:00 +0000

BBC News – Hitler memorabilia ‘attracts young Indians’–>

Story from BBC NEWS:

Hitler memorabilia ‘attracts young Indians’

By Zubair Ahmed
BBC News, Mumbai

Slowly but steadily, a decade-old business around the dead and universally despised [?] dictator Adolf Hitler is emerging as a small-scale industry in India.
[Do you see a contradiction in introducing a report about how some people in India admire Hitler by asserting that Hitler is “universally despised”? That is a typical example of the over-the-top bias and lack of critical thinking that nearly always accompanies this subject in the Post-War West. Obviously he is not “universally despised” in India!]
Books and memorabilia on the German leader’s life have found a steady market in some sections of Indian society where he is idolised and admired, mostly by the young.
The numbers are small but seem to be growing.
Latest reports say Bollywood is now planning to cash in. A film – Dear Friend Hitler – is due to be released by the end of the year, focusing on the dictator’s relationship with his mistress Eva Braun.
It’s hard to narrow down what makes the dictator popular in India, but some young people say they are attracted by his “discipline and patriotism”.
Most of them are, however, quick to add that they do not approve of his racial prejudices and the Holocaust in which millions of Jews were killed. [Hitler would not have approved of it either. It’s a big Jewish lie. But these Indians admire him in spite of that!]
But the truth is that books, T-shirts, bags and key-rings with his photo or name on do sell in India. And his autobiography, Mein Kampf, sells the most.
‘Bestseller’
Jaico, the largest publisher and distributor of Mein Kampf in India, has sold more than a 100,000 copies in the last 10 years.
Crossword, an India-wide chain of book stores, has sold more than 25,000 copies since 2000 and marketing head Sivaram Balakrishnan says: “It’s been a consistent bestseller for us.”

And demand seems to be growing. Jaico’s chief editor RH Sharma says: “There has been a steady rise of 10% to 15% [over what period?] in the book’s sale.”
Until two years ago, a typical Mumbai (Bombay) bookstore sold 40-50 copies of Mein Kampf a year. Now the figure is more like several hundred copies annually. [That’s not a 10-15% increase. That’s a 10-15x increase over the past two years! What has changed? Is the obvious role of Jewish influence in disastrous U.S. foreign policy and banking troubles part of this?]
The more well-heeled the area, the higher the sales. [This is important: it’s the influential classes that admire Hitler the most.] For example, the Crossword outlet in Mumbai’s affluent Bandra district sells, on average, three copies a day.
The book has several editions and is available in vernacular Indian languages too. Mannyes Booksellers in the western city of Pune keeps at least four editions. There are at least seven publishers now competing with Jaico.
Global sales figures for Mein Kampf are hard to come by, but the book sells well in other parts of the world too.
In the US, it sold 26,000 copies last year 2009. In 2005 it sold 100,000 copies in Turkey in just a few months. The Arabic imprint is popular in the Palestinian territories.
Mein Kampf is published by Random House in the UK but the company would not give sales figures to the BBC.
‘Positive and negative’
Nearly all the booksellers and publishers contacted in India say it is mainly young people who read Mein Kampf. [Another positive sign: young people are the future. The Jews are going to have a hard time influencing a major nation whose leaders have been influenced by Mein Kampf.]

It’s not just the autobiography – books on the Nazi leader, T-shirts, bags, bandanas and key-rings are also in demand.
A shop in Pune, called Teens, says it sells nearly 100 T-shirts a month with Hitler’s image on them.
Prayag Thakkar, a 19-year-old student in Gujarat state, is one of them: “I have idolised Hitler ever since I have had a sense of history. I admire his leadership qualities and his discipline.”
The Holocaust was bad, he says, but that is not his concern. “He mesmerised the whole nation with his leadership and iron discipline. India needs his discipline.”
Dimple Kumari, a research associate in Pune, has not read Mein Kampf but she would wear the Hitler T-shirt out of admiration for him. She calls him “a legend” and tries to put her admiration for him in perspective: “The killing of Jews was not good, but everybody has a positive and negative side.”

Shilpi Guha says she started reading the book but could not finish it and she wouldn’t like to dwell on the dictator’s negative side.
In the past, a couple of right-wing Hindu leaders [e.g. Subhas Chandra Bose, who went to Germany during the war] have also expressed their admiration for Hitler.
But young Indians’ fascination for him has been explained succinctly by academic Govind Kulkarni: “The youth look for a hero, a patriot, and Hitler was a committed patriot. He is seen as someone who can solve problems. The young people here are faced with a lot of problems.”
Mr Kulkarni says he believes the young are gullible and fail to see the sinister side of Hitler.
“Young people have no sense of history. The book is thick and not easy to understand unless you know the history of Germany,” he says.
Amit Tripathi, a Mumbai-based scholar, read the book a long time ago but just out of curiosity.
“I didn’t find the book inspiring at all. It was interesting to read how he coped with his days of struggle, but his ideology of racial purity smacked of racism.”[Note how the BBC picked out a propaganda-saturated liberal opinion to cap off the story. This is the kind of silly, taboo-influenced attitude that they like to see in their academics in the UK.]

From The Times of India:

In Modi’s Gujarat, Hitler is a textbook hero

Harit Mehta, TNN, Sep 30, 2004, 05.11am IST

While a Class VIII student is taught ‘negative aspects’ of Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement, the Class X social studies textbook has chapters on ‘Hitler, the Supremo’ and ‘Internal Achievements of Nazism’.

The Class X book presents a frighteningly uncritical picture of Fascism and Nazism. The strong national pride that both these phenomena generated, the efficiency in the bureaucracy and the administration and other ‘achievements’ are detailed, but pogroms against Jews and atrocities against trade unionists, migrant labourers, and any section of people who did not fit into Mussolini or Hitler’s definition of rightful citizen don’t find any mention. “They committed the gruesome and inhuman act of suffocating 60 lakh Jews in gas chambers” is all the book, authored by a panel, mentions of the holocaust.

Narendra Modi, Governor of Gujarat.

Bal Thackeray: prominent Hindu Nationalist and (conditional) admirer of Adolf Hitler

Balasaheb Thackeray is the founder of Shiv Sena, a right-wing populist party based in Mumbai (Bombay) which began in 1966 championing the rights of local workers against the use of immigrant workers from other provinces of India, but is now aligned with the Hindu People’s Party.

Starting at 1:48
Interviewer: “You’ve been quoted as saying there are some misconceptions about your admiring Hitler. What is the actual position?”
Bal Thackeray: “I admire everybody.”
Interviewer: (unintelligible)
Bal Thackeray: “Yes,if they have qualities, if they have qualities.”
Interviewer: “So now you admire people who have qualities.”
Bal Thackeray: “It’s for you to find out if they have qualities, and no qualities.”
Interviewer: “But seriously, everybody does.”
Bal Thackeray: “Uh, Hitler, I don’t admire him for one thing: because of that massacre of the Jews.
Interviewer: “Let’s take the Holocaust out of it. The rest of what Hitler did?
Bal Thackeray: “The way he used the speech. He, he had that command effect. At that time the people had gone mad, mad. So that type of a thing, you must admire to that extent, that this is the man who actually made their money. And then you will blame Hitler for rights.”
Interviewer:“Mm, just the small matter of the Holocaust, but we leave that aside. Now go on.”
Bal Thackeray: But something, some miracle, some hypnotic thing was there, That you must say, yes. What hypnotic powers he has! Why people go behind him? That is word-spreading!”
Interviewer: So you also are on record saying you admire Hitler’s patriotism. You admire his patriotism, his hold on the masses, but you don’t approve of the Holocaust.
Bal Thackeray: “Yes, no Holocaust.”

Without the Holocaust, Hitler is totally admirable to Bal Thackeray. Somebody should send him a copy of Did Six Milion Really Die?

South-Asians Admire Hitler

Hadding — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:15:00 +0000

Nothing is quite so effective in undermining an irrational attitude as showing that it is by no means universal.

From the Daily Telegraph:

Indian business students snap up copies of Mein Kampf
Sales of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s autobiography and apologia for his anti-semitism, are soaring in India where business students regard the dictator as a management guru.

By Monty Munford in New Delhi
Published: 7:00AM BST 20 Apr 2009

Booksellers told The Daily Telegraph that while it is regarded in most countries as a ‘Nazi Bible’, in India it is considered a management guide in the mould of Spencer Johnson’s “Who Moved My Cheese”. Sales of the book over the last six months topped 10,000 in New Delhi alone, according to leading stores, who said it appeared to be becoming more popular with every year.

Several said the surge in sales was due to demand from students who see it as a self-improvement and management strategy guide for aspiring business leaders, and who were happy to cite it as an inspiration. “Students are increasingly coming in asking for it and we’re happy to sell it to them,” said Sohin Lakhani, owner of Mumbai-based Embassy books who reprints Mein Kampf every quarter and shrugs off any moral issues in publishing the book.
“They see it as a kind of success story where one man can have a vision, work out a plan on how to implement it and then successfully complete it”.

Jaico Publishing House, one of the publishers in India, said it reprints a new edition of the book at least twice a year to meet growing demand. “We were the first company to publish the book in India and there are now six other Indian publishers of the book, although we were first to take a chance on it,” said Jaico’s chief editor, R H Sharma, who dismissed any moral issues in publishing Mein Kampf.

“The initial print run of 2,000 copies in 2003 sold out immediately and we knew we had a best-seller on our hands. Since then the numbers have increased every year to around 15,000 copies until last year when we sold 10,000 copies over a six-month period in our Delhi shops,” he added.

Senior academics cite the mutual influence of India and Hitler’s Nazis on one another. Mahatma Gandhi corresponded with the Führer, pro-Independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army allied with Hitler’s Germany and Japan during the Second World War, and the Nazis drew on Hindu symbolism for their Swastika motif and ideas of Aryan supremacy.

Dr J Kuruvachira, Professor of Philosophy of Salesian College in Nagaland and who has cited Mein Kampf as a source of inspiration to the Hindu nationalist BJP, said he believed the book’s popularity was due to political reasons. “While it could be the case that management students are buying the book, my feeling is that it has more likely influenced some of the fascist organisations operating in India and nearby,” he said.

Indian leader Subhas Chandra Bose (right) in Germany during World War II
India is not the only country where Mein Kampf is popular. It has been a best-seller in Croatia since it was first published [there] while in Turkey it sold 100,000 in just two months in 2005. In Russia it has been reprinted three times since the de facto ban on the book was overturned in 1992.

In Germany the book’s copyright is held by the state of Bavaria where its publication is banned until 2015, 70 years after Hitler’s death.

In India, any book more than 25 years old is free of copyright, which has paved the way for six separate publishers to print the book.

From der Spiegel:

03/17/2010

The Führer Cult

Germans Cringe at Hitler’s Popularity in Pakistan

[Why would they cringe?]

By Hasnain Kazim in Islamabad, Pakistan

REUTERS

The swastika is a religious symbol of good luck.

Germans are popular in India and Pakistan, but not always for the right reasons. Many in South Asia have nothing but admiration for Adolf Hitler and still associate Germany with the Third Reich. Everyday encounters with the love of all things Nazi makes German visitors cringe.

Pakistan is the opposite of Germany. The mountains are in the north, the sea is in the south, the economic problems are in the west and the east is doing well. It’s not hard for a German living in Pakistan to get used to these differences, but one contrast is hard to stomach: Most people like Hitler.
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–> I was recently at the hairdresser, an elderly man who doesn’t resort to electric clippers. All he has is creaky pair of scissors, a comb, an aerosol with water. He did a neat job but I wasn’t entirely happy.
I said: “I look like Hitler.”
He looked at me in the mirror, gave a satisfied smile and said: “Yes, yes, very nice.”
I decided not to challenge him, went home and tried to get rid of the strict parting he’d given me.

Embarrassing Moments
I was glad I avoided the usual Hitler conversation. Pakistanis always hone in on that topic whenever they talk to Germans. “We’re Aryans too,” they say, because there was an Indo-Germanic race, the Aryas. Besides, Hitler was a military genius, they add.
Sometimes it’s better to keep quiet about one’s German origins. It’s embarrassing because people here think they’re doing you a favor by expressing their admiration for the Nazi leader. I suspect most Indians and Pakistanis have no idea what this man did. They see him as the bold Führer who took on the British and Americans.
In the Islamic world, not just in Pakistan but right across from Iran to northern Africa, anti-Semitic sentiment of course plays a role. Conversations with German visitors rapidly turn to the injustice being suffered by the Palestinians who were robbed of their land. The Desire to be Swallowed up by the Ground
One can try to cut such conversations short, like a German acquaintance of mine did recently. He told a taxi driver in Iran he should stop talking nonsense because he as a dark-skinned person wouldn’t have survived long in Nazi Germany. The taxi driver looked at him surprised and said: “But I’m Aryan!”
The alternative is just to wish the ground would swallow you up, like when German friends visited us while we were staying with our Pakistani relatives in London. Out of the blue, one uncle started talking admiringly about Hitler, his supposed military feats and how he led Germany out of economic misery. Our friends just sat there stony-faced and didn’t know what to say. Later on my parents apologized to them.
I don’t know where this fascination comes from, not just for the Nazis but for all things German. Most people don’t realize that today’s Germany is very different from the Third Reich. It’s not surprising. Many have never even been to the next big city in their own country, so how should they know what things are like in Germany these days? “I Like Nazi”
As a result, many Pakistanis easily switch from Hitler to Mercedes (“Very excellent car, but a little too expensive”). A few days ago a white Mercedes built in the 1970s was driving ahead of me in the center of Islamabad carrying a family of seven. On the back was a sticker bearing a black swastika in a white circle. Underneath it read: “I like Nazi.”
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–> It’s not just Muslims who maintain this Nazi cult. A few years ago, a Hindu businessman in India opened a restaurant called “Hitler’s Cross,” complete with a portrait of the Führer at the entrance. Another Hindu sold bed linen emblazoned with swastikas that had little to do with the Hindu swastika symbol for good luck. The sheets, pillow cases and bed spreads were advertised as being part of “The Nazi Collection.” English editions of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” can be found in bookshops even in the most remote parts of India. And Indian schoolbooks have been known to celebrate Hitler as a great leader.
Once my wife and I visited the cafe in the beautiful Hotel Imperial in New Delhi. It has a garden lined with palms, excellent tea and friendly waiters in uniforms that recall the colonial era. A young man served us. The name tag on his uniform attracted my interest so I asked him why he had this rather unusual name for an Indian man. “Oh, my parents named me after a great historic person,” he explained.
The name, in black letters on a golden plate, read: Adolf.