Thorsten Pattberg

“ About the ‘methods’, the ‘what’ and ‘how’, the ‘German Auschwitzes’ or the Japanese ‘Rape of Nankings’, there is so much written today, that I shall only add this jewel: against all the hypocrisy of Western educationalist about the unbelievable cruel methods used to annihilate one’s enemy, all those methods are the least difficult to comprehend for any serious student of history. ”

“ The rational, analytic, deductive Western Germans, consciously or unconsciously indulged into the spiritual misson to make Europe ‘coherent’, and ‘uniform’ – they wanted to easter-fy it. By doing that, by adopting the inductive Eastern ways, some historians believe German orientalism had “helped to destroy Western self-satisfaction, and to provoke a momentous change in the culture of the West: the relinquishing of Christianity and classical antiquity as universal norms” (Marchand, 2001) . ”

“ Now, before you send me ill-wishes for arguing that the German were ‘right’, we should carefully examine the meaning of ‘righteousness’ in this “respective European context”. The Germans did the right thing, but not in a tactful manner. Order, discipline, submission for unity is Right, so is the unity of Europe led by its most populous, industrious and powerful people, the Germanic people. ”

“ What the German orientalists and politicians prior to 1938 suggested – leaning towards Eastern-inflected Mackinder’s heartland theory (1904) , Max Müller’s Aryan supremacy (1892) , and Nietzsche’s prophetic Übermensch (1885) - was that the Western hemisphere needs a domesticated super-race of Aryans in order to occupy Eurasia and counter the disciplined, ever increasing and expanding powers of the East hemisphere. Germany feared the rising inductive East, not the deductive West, of which it was already the most powerful culture. ”

“ Analyzing methods, numbers or any other materialistic components of “history’s darkest events”, the ‘what’ and ‘how’, is de-humanized bean-counting; a more accurate understanding of what happened to the people of this world in their darkest times can only be achieved by also looking at the ‘who’, by looking at their souls. ”

“ The main focus of academic attention in the Western analytic-deductive world about those darkest events in history seems to be, of course, the ‘methods’, the ‘what’ and ‘how’ by which the suffering and pain was executed ”

“ It is no surprise then that even today the average American Joe has great difficulties in distinguishing between German-style totalitarianism or Soviet-style/Maoism totalitarianism, and there is no blaming him for that. ”