It is true that the Fascists focussed on destroying Europe’s Jews, for obvious reasons, but for the Western Axis Europe was simply the minimum. If the Axis won the war, it’s reasonably possible that they would have taken their ambitions much further: the Fascists made so many references to a supposed global Jewish conspiracy that providing citations is unnecessary, but here is an example from Paul Hanebrink’s A Specter Haunting Europe, pages 84–5:

Jewish Bolsheviks were bloodstained terrorists. […] And they were deceitful enemies on a mission to impose Jewish rule over the world. Hitler believed it was the German people’s historic calling to protect the world from Judeo-Bolshevik evil. German annihilation would leave the entire world helpless before this great enemy.

As he wrote in Mein Kampf: “If, with the help of his Marxist creed, the Jew is victorious over the other peoples of the world, his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity and this planet will, as it did thousands of years ago, move through the ether devoid of men.”2

Holocaust education sadly tends to be very Eurocentric. This isn’t entirely unjustified (again, for obvious reasons), but it’s misled otherwise well informed people into conclusions like ‘Fascism was just colonialism directed at other white people’, which is an oversimplification at best. In reality, Jews from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Libya, and likely elsewhere in Afrasia were unsafe from Fascist antisemitism.

Unsurprisingly, when somebody called this antisocialist out on her bullshit, she moved the goalposts:

The Nazis did not have a global presence. Islamofascism does, which is why Hezbollah was able to execute terror attacks against Jews in Argentina, for example.

Now, I don’t know if that claim about Hezbollah is true, but it is worth noting that Argentinian neofascists regularly assaulted and tormented Jews. It would indeed be an exaggeration to claim that the Third Reich had a global presence, but it had more than a few sympathizers in, for example, North America and El Salvador; there were Axis sympathizers on every continent during the early 1940s.

Oh, and Hamas’s supposed antisemitism? Nowhere to be found.

  • loathsome dongeaterAEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Those things did happen but they was never at the scale at which European colonialism operated. I am not implying that there is something unique to the European genealogy which permitted this. It’s just that the imperial core is operating planet-scale meat grinders using ahistorical idiosyncrasies to assuage the guilty conscience.