Holocaust denial

[Insula Dei]

What is what?

The genuinely bizarre and utterly novel argument that you just spewed out.

I was about to PM you about this thread.  I've read six books about Nazi Germany within the last three months, and...well...as you can see from my earlier response, I wasn't about to touch most of this s**t.  You can if you want.

Which argument?  If you're referring to my grandmas prejudism, I'm not defending it, just offering explanation.  I'm tired and moving on of it's something else.

Nah, I suppose it's your assertation that German Catholics were at risk from a Nazi-mandated genocide.

[Insula Dei]

Rather, the intellectual pedigree of Nazism is deeply steeped in 'silly neo-Paganism' and bizarre mysticism. Surely, enough New Ageish books have been written about the Thule society's links to the early (NS)DAP and so on for that to be not much of a controversial statement. In a broader sense, I think it's fair to say that fascism's , and certainly National-Socialism's, unconcious is in a profound way rooted in a Neo-Pagan ethos.

Whether or not catholic and protestant German churches 'collaborated' with the Nazis has nothing to do with the question about the mental landscape of Nazism. Nazism is not an ideology especially inspired by any form of Christian rhetoric of thought.

[Insula Dei]

This might be asomething I should edit into my previous post, but what also seems important to keep in mind about nazism is its essential eclecticism. Fascism isn't the culmination of one tradition of thinking in the West, it has many contributive factors: romanticism and nationalism, side by side with mysticist tendencies, strains of Darwinian thought and the sort of anti-Semitism that for centuries was the dark flipside of Catholicism. Perhaps most deeply of all, it's characterised by a profound irrationalism, an anti-modernism.

Fascism, no matter how loosely or strictly one chooses to understand that term,  in short is the only ideology that could unite people as diverse as Leon Degrelle and Julius Evola, Rosenberg and Franco.

[Insula Dei]

I must say that this is the first time I've come across anything as insane as the suggestion that Hitler was actively scheming to exterminate or even persecute in any way the Catholic population of Western Europe. I can't even see how anyone could have that idea.