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Axis of Evil

There seems to be a perpetual barrage of reminders reinforcing the idea that the Nazis were uniquely evil.

Hitler is impressively always at the center of political discourse, as the disingenuous media machine continuously grasps for the Trump-Hitler comparison.

From a young age, we are inundated with books, movies, documentaries, and more about the horrors that the Third Reich inflicted on its enemies. And, honestly speaking, rightly so; the brutal regime had no respect for human dignity, basic rights, God, and more.

As we’ve shifted from a Christian to a secular society, the figure people least want to emulate has transformed from the devil to Hitler.

Most don’t take the time to stop and think about how Hitler and the Nazis managed to ascend to a league of their own among the other notable brutal regimes throughout history.

Yes, he was directly responsible for the death of millions of people, but I hate to tell you, he’s not the only one.

Communist leaders like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and more were just as despotic as Hitler, if not more.

Events like the Cultural Revolution (Mao), Holdomor (Stalin), and the “Killing Fields” (Pol Pot) are pertinent examples of otherworldly disregard for human life and application of Machiavelli’s “the ends justify the means” maxim, in which sacrificing sacred human lives for the “greater good” of establishing their version of utopia is simply the price to pay for bringing that vision to life.

One common misperception surrounding the far-left communist regimes and far-right fascist regimes is the idea that they are polar opposites; that is simply the furthest thing from the truth.

Rather than operating on a linear scale, the “right” and left” ideological compass resembles a horseshoe.

No one wants to acknowledge it, but the only difference between the two is that fascists are racists, and that upsets liberals.

On a more serious note, there are a few factors at play.

First, the inevitable right versus left culture war is important to note, as communism is built on the false guise of egalitarianism, which aligns well with the naïve egalitarian ideals that fuel modern-day liberal democracies.

To be clear, every human is equal under the law (ideally) and in the eyes of God. But besides that, there isn’t much else. An undeniable reality is that individuals, as well as groups, are not equal when it comes to skills, talents, behaviors, productivity, or any other relevant and quantifiable metric. Because of this, societies naturally form hierarchies.

The egalitarianism versus hierarchy debate is one of several ideological clashes that underpins much of the left versus right disputation. Both fascists and communists take these concepts to the extreme, as fascists seem to eliminate those at the bottom of the hierarchy to perfect society, while communists believe perfection is attained by ensuring equality in every facet among all groups and individuals at any cost.

Zooming out a bit, it is easier to understand why our liberal society tends to show more sympathy towards communism given the overlaps in their egalitarian ideals.

Modern-day liberal thought goes something like this: because we are all equal, any disparities between individuals or groups must be due to structural inequalities that need to be fixed, even if it means unnecessarily expanding the apparatus of the state.

Additionally, the idea that we teamed up with the communist Soviets during WWII played a key role in this analysis.

While most people shrug this off and say something like “well we had no choice…it was either them or Hitler!” Reaffirming my previous point, when putting their human rights track record side by side, the two look pretty similar.

Another possible explanation goes something like “we had no other choice but to secure global safety! Hitler was going to take over the world and force everyone to speak German!”

Let’s unpack this.

Firstly, when it comes to the US joining the war, a major reason was the sway that influential Jews had in media, politics, and business had in siding with the Allies given Germany’s stance towards the Hebrews.

More on the “chosen ones” soon.

Also, some may say that the US had to fight with the Allies given Japan’s Pearl Harbor attack, as it was the US declaring war against Japan which led to the rest of the Axis powers to do the same against America.

However, Japan attacked the US for a reason, as they had essentially been on the Allies’ side given its extensive financial and military support for countries like France and England.

Coming back to the world domination theory, can we for sure say that Hitler did not in fact want to “take over the world?”

Not exactly—maybe he did.

More realistically, Hitler’s first goal was to take back geographic areas with ethnic Germans living there that were stripped from them in the Treaty of Versaille after WWI.

His next goal was most likely to expand into Eastern Europe to provide lebensraum, or living space, for the German people.

The most ironic part about the concern about Germany seizing Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe subsequently is that this is exactly what the Soviets did after WWII.

The Allies did all that work to “liberate” Poland and its neighbors from a bloodthirsty dictator only to hand it over to different dictator.

Weaving it back to Jews, another semi-obvious factor why the Nazis are portrayed as uniquely evil is the influence Jews have in the entertainment sector.

It doesn’t take a genius to realize that because it was the Nazis, not the Soviets, that identified Jews as an undesirable race, the cause of moral and financial decay in German society, and thus the victims of the Holocaust, they would use the influence to mass produce films and documentaries about the tragic event.

To be fair, it makes perfect sense. If the entertainment industry was dominated by Armenians, I’m sure we would be flooded with movies and documentaries about the Armenian genocide.

Ironically enough, for numerous decades, Israel intentionally didn’t acknowledge the Armenian genocide due to its alliance with Turkey. In fact, there is still some debate within the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) about the event, with Netanyahu compromising with the two sides by labeling it the “Armenian tragedy” in 2023.

Stepping back, the point of this piece is obviously not to bring sympathy to Hitler. The disdain he has received over time has been, frankly speaking, deserved.

Rather, I’m simply trying to solve the mystery as to how and why he has emerged from the long list of murderous tyrants as the alpha amongst them all.

On the opposite spectrum of the typical narrative surrounding Hitler is the strange emergence of the coalition of real people (not Russian trolls) on Twitter who think the Nazis were actually “good guys,” doing their best to bring prosperity back to Germany, prevent the spreading wave of communism, and protect Germans from the “exploitative Jew.”

Before simply throwing the “crazy” label on these people, let’s think about a few different factors that could be causing this.

The first is the Israel-Palestine conflict that had been brewing for over a year that saw the public’s sympathy slowly shift from Israel to Palestine. The centrist view on the conflict was that Israel had the right to defend itself after the attack, but the response went overboard as time went on.

This development most likely led to a small, but loud, minority of people making the association of Israel being the only Jewish state and thus linking the questionable actions of the Israeli government to Jewish people.

Also, the virality of Hitler’s speeches being translated into English using AI interestingly plays a role as well.

Because most people’s surface level understanding of Hitler is that he hated Jews, and would therefore solely talk about his hatred towards them in his speeches, it may have surprised people to realize he actually spent most of his speeches talking about the general concepts of German nationalism, rebuilding the economy, eliminating the decadence plaguing the country, and more.

The fact that Germany at the time was a cesspit of degeneracy and economically shattered was an indisputable fact. Cross-dressing, open prostitution, drag performances, erotic magazines, and the birth of transgenderism are a few of numerous examples of the moral decline occurring in Weimar Germany.

What was the topic of debate was who the culprits were—and the Nazis’ answer for that was none other than the Israelites.

Lastly, many people believe that the “system” has fed them so many lies, especially regarding story lines surrounding past events, and, therefore, are more likely to engage with alternative narratives, no matter how crazy they might seem.

In the short term, a high level of discernment is necessary to determine what is true and what is not.

However, in the long term, “truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”

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