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The Beauty and
the Beast: Race and Racism in Europe, Part V
Tom Sunic
September 22, 2009
In late June 1944, the Anglo-American troops were well
entrenched in Normandy after successfully cutting off German supply lines from
the north-eastern part of France. On their way to the borders of the Reich, the
Americans GIs would occasionally capture small military units wearing German
uniforms that they first took for Japanese soldiers. It turned out that these
were Turkmen and Azeri soldiers fighting on the Western front under German
patronage.
Bizarre interracial encounters not only occurred in the
Pacific between the Japanese and Americans, but also in north-western Italy, in
the province of Friuli, where it was common in April 1945 to spot retreating
pockets of Asian civilians and slanted-eyed soldiers in German uniforms fleeing
the incoming Soviet advance along with their German allies (Christopher Dolbeau,
Face au Bolchevisme:
1917–1989, 2002, pp. 302–303; see also, Patrik von zur Mühlen,
Zwischen Hakenkreuz
und Sowjetstern, 1971).
In the last year of the war, National Socialist
Germany, which over the last 60 years has been maligned for its real and surreal
racist prejudices and practices, had hundreds of thousands of non-European
volunteers fighting the global war against communism and colonialism. Many of
those
non-European
troops
had firmly believed that
that NS Germany would provide them with independence from the rule of colonial
France and England. The German Wehrmacht had thousands of Arab fighters, Indian
fighters and even two black fighters from Guadeloupe fighting alongside with the
Germans, such as the famous Louis Joachim-Eugène and Norbert Désirée!
Space does not
allow recounting each individual event that took place after the end of
hostilities. But although meagre, the literature on non-European fighters in the
German Wehrmacht sheds a different light on the already highly complex picture
of German racial policies in the Third Reich.
However, what is clear today is that 70 years after the war, neither the
winning side nor to the losing side benefited from the conflict. In fact as a
prominent German historian Ernest Nolte writes (Der europäische Burgerkrieg 1917–1945
: Nationalsozialismus und Bolschewismus, 1987), this was the largest European civil war in
history, substantially draining the White gene pool.
All subsequent
events in the world up to the present, be they on the theoretical or
institutional level, be they in the field of social sciences or world politics,
are directly linked to this largest intra-White bloodshedding
in history.
Race or Religion?
In the late
1940’s hundreds of prominent National Socialist dignitaries managed to escape to
Egypt, Turkey and Syria. Most converted to Islam, married there and adopted
Muslim names. A substantial number
of them played a crucial role in early Egyptian politics under president
Gamal Abdel
Nasser,
providing valuable intelligence to Egyptians and Syrians on the newly born state
of Israel. Numerous ex-SS intelligence officers, academics and physicians, such
as Hans
Appler —
alias
Sakah Chaffar, Joachim
Daemling — alias Ibrahim Mustafa,
Ludwig
Heiden —
alias El Hadj,
Aribert Heim — alias Tarek Hussein
Farid, and many, many others are still
warmly remembered in the Syrian and Egyptian intelligence community.
It is quite
common among White nationalists in Europe and America to single out Muslim
immigrants as the major threat to White Euro-American societies because their
demographic growth is likely to turn Europe into an Islamic state.
The United Kingdom, France, or for that matter the European Union as a
whole, have a large number of South Asian and Arab Muslims. One study
found
that there were at least 15 million Muslims in the EU, and possibly as many as
23 million. This number does not
include over 10 million White autochthonous European Muslims, particularly in
the Balkans.
Yet a sharp
difference must be made between race and religion. For example, only one third
of Catholics in the world today are White, with two thirds being of mixed race
living mostly in a Latin America and the Philippines. One need only take a walk
in St. Peter’s Square in Rome to spot swarms of non-European Catholic
seminarians. Unlike Judaism, which is a highly ethnocentric monotheistic
religion, the other two monotheistic religions, also born in the Middle East —
Islam and Christianity — ignore, at least in theory, the distinction between
race and religion.
There are also
double standards in depicting the deluge of Muslim non-European outgroups into
Europe and America. These groups are unquestionably changing the racial profile
of their White host countries. But while it is relatively safe to criticize the
alleged violent nature of Islam in academic circles, one rarely hears that the
violence against non-Jews in the Old Testament shows that Judaism is inherently
violent.
And in the
contemporary world, why criticize the violent nature of Islam while avoiding
criticism of the violent nature of Zionism?
Many White
nationalists are justly concerned about the inflow of non-European races. But
many of these non-Europeans, such as Hindus residing in the UK, are extremely
resentful of Islam. Ethnic and religious conflict in the future may well be a
complex affair, as it already is in the United States, where Latinos have
ethnically cleansed Blacks from some areas of Southern California (see
here,
here, and
here).
The whole
liberal hypocrisy on race was well described by
Alain Brossat, who notes that in France making fun of Arabs or
describing them as terrorists, obscurantists, or enemies of democracy and
republicanism is considered protected free speech. On the other hand, making fun
of rabbis or vehemently criticizing the politics of the state of Israel will
result in draconian penalties.
To make the
subject of race even more complicated, during different historical eras the
Catholic Church endorsed highly promiscuous miscegenation policies, particularly
in Latin America during Spanish rule. From the 16th to 19th centuries, a few
Spanish White settlers and hordes of ordinary criminals from all parts of Europe
found a safe haven in fertile Paraguay, only to be forced
by the powerful Jesuit clergy to marry Guarani
Indian women — simply because there were no White women around.
The Christian
Gospel of “love thy neighbour” certainly played an additional role in the
process of miscegenation all over Latin America. There has been a gradual
depletion of the White gene pool caused by racial mongrelisation. This has often
resulted in frequent coup d’états and poor economic growth, despite the fact
that Latin America is rich in natural resources.
Moreover, the
interplay of race and religion is further complicated by the fact that there are
well over 10 million indigenous Muslims in Europe, mostly Bosnians and Albanians
whose gene pool is relatively well preserved and who are often more European
than White European Christians. Bosnian Muslims present a very peculiar case,
being all of European stock with a high number of strikingly blond people. In
the Middle Ages their ancestors were renowned as heretics known as “Bogumils,” with
strong ties
to French Cathars and Albingensians.
In the late
15th century with the onslaught of Turks against Europe,
Bosnian Bogumils converted in droves to Islam — partly because of their
hostility to the Vatican, and partly because their White race propelled them
quickly into lucrative positions in the Ottoman hierarchy. The Ottomans offered
them prestigious titles — “beys,” “pashas,” or “grand viziers.” Valued and
praised because of their physical stature and race, Slavic Muslims, including
the Albanians, who are of old Indo-European Illyrian stock, played for centuries
an important role as elite soldiers known as janissaries who were posted as
provincial rulers throughout the Ottoman empire, which in some periods stretched
from today’s Algeria in the West to Yemen in the East, and all the way to
Hungary in central Europe.
During WWII,
many Bosnian and Albanian Muslims were highly regarded by NS Germany. The
Catholic pro-fascist Croat leader,
Ante Pavelic
built a large mosque in the heart of the Croatian
baroque city of Zagreb, while frequently referring to Bosnian Muslims as the
“purest Croats.” In 1943, under the
supervision of Heinrich Himmler, a
Bosnian Waffen SS Handschar was established under German command.
The story of
race and racism in the Third Reich is complex and endless in its scope. It still
needs to be objectively written. Surprisingly perhaps, some “half-Jews” or
“quarter-Jews” played a significant political and military role in NS Germany;
many took part in the anti-communist campaign in the East. Among the famous
“Mischlings,” or crossbreeds,
was the famous German admiral
Bernhard Rogge, Field Marshal
Erhard Milch, Field Marshal Von Manstein (born Lewinski), the panzer
general Fritz Bayerlein, etc. In his book,
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, the Jewish American historian Bryan Mark Rigg
estimates that between 120,000 to 160,000 Germans of Jewish extraction served in
the Wehrmacht.
Heredity and
race are crucial elements in someone’s political and social behavior. But a
person possessing the highest qualities of his race — but without a culture that
preserves and enhances his race — turns into a biological unit with a
meaningless life. Culture must always come as the final veneer on a person’s
racial make-up. Even among Third Reich scholars the most frequent word was not
Rasse (race), but rather the word
Ausbildung, which denotes character building (often wrongly
translated into English as ‘education’). High IQ and other positive racial
characteristics can in no way substitute for strong will and moral integrity.
These traits are influenced genetically and they differ between the races. But
there are strong
cultural influences
on these traits as well. The phenomenon whereby so many Whites have accepted the
death of their culture and the surrender of lands they have held for centuries
is the product of a pathological culture, not pathological genes.
It still
remains a great mystery why the great White race, once capable of great deeds
and daring adventure from Cape Verde to Patagonia and from the Arctic Circle to
New Zealand, is now more and more inclined to a domesticated life with no risks,
always ready to meekly accept its own cultural and political eclipse as a moral
imperative. Must it wait for the real interracial warfare in order to retrieve
its ingroup identity?
Tom Sunic (http://www.tomsunic.info;
http://doctorsunic.netfirms.com)
is author, translator, former US professor in political science and a former
Croatian diplomat. He is the author of
Homo americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age
(2007). His new book of essays, Postmortem
Report: Cultural Examinations from Postmodernity, prefaced by Kevin
MacDonald, will soon be released.
Email him.
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