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Recieved: 2000/12/21 22:35
Subject: [K-list] Heil Hitler!
From: Ma An-Guo º¨¦wºê
On 2000/12/21 22:35, Ma An-Guo º¨¦wºê posted thus to the K-list:
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From: sudipt sen <sudiptsenATnospamhotmail.com>
| It is with a lot of dismay that I have to report that in India, there has
| been an outbreak of extreme fanaticism, directed towards the muslim
| community. A particularly obstreperous gent by the name of Bal Thackeray,
| who admits to reading mein kampf in his spare time for inspiration, has
been
| spearheading the campaign, and he has very strong xenophobic tendencies.
He
| is also the idealogue for a political party named the shiv sena. Sena
means
| army, and Shiva is just a convenient handle for him to enable his army to
| call itself "S S".
You know what?
I don't want to sound disrespectful to you or to the Muslim community in
India but...
I have fallen in love with Hitler!
Heil Hitler!
When I was a teenager, we had our French version of your Bal Thackeray who
responded to the name of "Jean-Marie The Stylo" (or something like that...),
head of the FN (National Front party).
Everybody was alarmed at the growing popularity of his right wing neo-nazi
party. They scored as much as 15% and more in national elections and even
had over 40% in some cities... It was quite a scandal when the first FN city
mayor was elected.
I hated that guy. During the election campaign, on my way back from school,
I would stop in front of billboards and tear down his posters. I was in a
Catholic school for boys where many students were active supporters of his
and I hated it. Even teachers were allowed to take time off school so that
they can organize rallies for the fascist leader! It didn't fit with my
conception of what Catholicism ought to be.
I have always shown a strong empathy abou the Shoa, the purposeful,
systematic extermination of the European Jewish community. I cried a lot
during the movie "the Schindler's List" which I went to see several times
(my sister called me a masochist for that! Maybe there is some scope for
Mystress to do something with me after all, <grin>) and even read the book.
I was deeply moved recently at the news that the Japanese 'Schindler' was
posthumously awarded official recognition for his role during the war. He
was an ambassador in a central European country during the war and went
against the orders by giving out visas to Jews so that they could flee the
Nazis. The brave man has been ostracized for the rest of his life because of
his courage.
I love so much Jewish music. Its sad notes find an echo deep within my
veins.
The first foreign language I learned was not English but German. As a teen,
I've had many opportunities to go to Germany and I loved it. I love German
people. I just hated Nazis and all they represented. Early did I understand
that Nazism was not a German monopoly.
On the first of September 1939, Hitler launched his invasion of Poland. This
act prompted England and France to declare war. What ensued first was what
we called "la drole de guerre", the funny war. There was no fighting. Not on
the West front anyway. We left the Germans in peace whilst they were
completing their invasion of the East European States. The French army was
cozily entrenched within its "Ligne Maginot" along the France-Germany
border, sure that the enemy couldn't break this fortified line of defense.
Unfortunately for the very naive and very passive French army, the Nazis, at
a time that was convenient for them, simply choose to go around it and
invaded Holland and Belgium first.
Thousands of German and East European refugees were retreating in front of
the advancing Nazis. They wandered on the French roads, many of them ready
to fight along their Gallic neighbors. The French army did not know what to
do with them, not knowing which was a spy, and which was a genuine refugee,
a German Jew, a gay, a communist, a Tzigane, or simply an artist like Max
Ernst whose art was qualified as 'decadent'. So the French simply put them
all in camps, treated them like POWs.
Of course, week after week the French had to retreat too, the battle of
Dunkirk came and soon went... lost without much resistance by the allies.
The German army marched into Paris, along the Champs Elysees, under the
Arche de Triumphe. The armistice was soon to be signed, dividing France in
two, the North being occupied by the Nazis, and the South being "la France
Libre", Free France. Article 19 of the treaty stated that all German or
Central European Nationals held within the French camps were to be handed
over to the Nazis. The French complied happily.
I recently saw a movie based on a true story, "Les Milles, le Train de la
Liberte", the Train to Freedom. The French officer in charge of the camp at
Les Milles, knowing that the war was lost and sensing that the lives of the
Germans under his protection were threatened, went against orders and
organized a train that took a thousand souls from the camp to the port of
Bayonne, on the Atlantic, close to the Spanish border... They were supposed
to take a boat to Morocco but missed it. Instead, they went over the
Pyrennees Mountains to Spain.
Meanwhile, the French authorities handed many Jews to the hands of death. In
Lyon, the French Police had over 50 young Jewish kids on its hands. The
Nazis refused to take them, but the French insisted.... "for humanitarian
reasons". Those kids were send straight to Auschwitz, with the compliments
and the blessings of the 'Gouvernement de Vichy', the 'Free' French
government that collaborated so willingly with the Germans.
This is just to give you an idea of the crimes committed by the French.
That's what I meant above when I said that I learned that Nazism is not a
German monopoly. There exists a certain form of guilt that remains in
France, a schizophrenic memory that took time to conciliate its shameful
"Collaboration" with its glorious "Resistance". When I lived in England, I
felt that the mood was different. Memories of the war were only that of an
heroic resistance. The Battle of England. The German V2s that never quite
brought London to its knees.
No wonder the stigma is not the same: England has never been occupied by the
Nazis so they never had a chance to collaborate with them. The only English
people who collaborated with the Nazis were the inhabitants of the small
British Isles next to the French coast, the only part of Great Britain the
Nazi army ever set foot on.
More condemning is the fact that the British intelligence knew very early
during the war of the existence of the Death Camps, Treblinka, Auschwitz...
They could have done something to prevent the massacre from taking place.
Some Jewish resistant came to them to beg them to go and bomb the camps.
Better bomb the existing Jewish prisoners and destroy the camp's
death-making facilities than allow the sufferings to go on and let the Nazis
kill even more Jews, gays and central European Nomads with a chilling
capitalist efficiency.
The moral situation was easier for the Americans. They only set foot in
Europe in 1944, too late to collaborate but early enough to take righteous
footage of the Death Camps. You have certainly seen those pictures in a
documentary.
Yet it is the same Americans who latter fought in Vietnam. The same who
discriminated against its black population, throughout the 50s, 60s....
until the year 2000 when, on election day, the black community from Florida
was prevented to go to the polling station by white police officers who
stopped them on the side of the road for a one-hour long routine check.
Ooops! lunch is over... gotta go back to work... will vote next time! Just
an example...
What has it all got to do with me, who as a teen hated Nazi xenophobia and
the resurgence thereof in French politics?
It lead me to the painful question of what I would have done had I been a
young Frenchman during the early 1940s?
Would I have I joined the resistance and given my life away in the name of
Freedom?
Or would I have cooperated and saved my life in the name of cowardice and
greed?
I didn't like the answer.
What if the situation arose again, now? (that is in the 1980s)
The answer was more reassuring: I certainly wouldn't collaborate this time
around. I would strive to be a modern version of the German Schindler, of
the Japanese Ambassador or of the French Captain at Les Milles.
Why so?
Because of the learning experience. Because others have played the
collaboration-game or the xenophobic-game before me. I may have been a young
willing nazi... I will not play that role again.
In Western Europe, we've had piece for the last 55 years. Before that,
within three generations we've had three wars between Germany and France.
1871... defeat left the French bitter... We'll have our vengeance.
1918... We won the war to end all wars! To ensure that peace remains, we
enforce the "Diktat" upon the Germans. Now, it was the Germans who were
bitter.
1945... the French lost their soul but won the war... Germany lost both!
But this time we learned from the mistakes of the 1919 Diktat and instead of
making Germany pay, very much thanks to the Americans and the Marshall Plan,
we made sure that Germany could heal its wounds. Both France and Germany
worked hard to heal past hatred and many exchange schemes were put up.
That's how, as a schoolboy I went to Germany and made friends there who then
came to my home. The Franco-German tandem has been the driving force of the
European integration and a key to the lasting peace in that part of the
world.
Hitler brought a lot of miseries to the world... but it was certainly a
necessary part of humanity's learning experience.
Now the really difficult question:
What if you could travel back in time so that you stand in front of baby
Adolf's crib whilst Mr. and Mrs. Hitler are away... would you strangle the
(innocent?) child?
The point is that many assassination attempts have been made on Hitler's
life, at least one by German high ranking officers.
None succeeded because Hitler had a job to do and the job was not finished
until 1944-45. So any attempt on his life before 1945 was doomed to fail.
And you won't have an opportunity to kill baby Adolf!
D-day, the 6th June 1944 was not nearly as successful as it seems now. The
landing of the allies was very close to be a complete failure. It took days
for the allies to reconquer what they hoped to take within hours. We were
'lucky' that the German reserve divisions were far away. Yet the Germans
knew about the landing, the knew the place and knew it was imminent. They
could have easily pushed the allies back to sea. Why didn't they? Because
Hitler did not believe his officers. He choose to be blind. Disregard
Normandy and stare at the Pas-de-Calais! His mission on Earth was over and
there was no way he could stay any longer... The defeat had to come one way
or the other... so why not via the beaches of Normandy...?
There was so much hatred before the war... and so much hope for a better
world after. The nationalistic, xenophobic way of thinking had to be shown
as what it really is. Blockages had to be cleared.
Neo-nazis are back?
So what? It is but an opportunity for us to reaffirm our free-will wish to
evolve spiritually.
Heil Hitler!
What a courageous soul it took to accomplish that delicate but most
important mission.
Heil to His Soul!
He taught me how to embrace my dark side. A couple of years ago, my dreams
were stilled filled with nazis. In one dream, I was myself a Nazi officer.
Urrrk! I was the enemy!
Yes! That's right! I am my own enemy! To see it outside is to fail seeing it
within. I had to learn to embrace and love the enemy within. On a personal
level, this work had to do with resolving conflicts between my spiritual
aims and my sexuality. (maybe it is just like what Chris is doing now... ?)
Now I don't dream of Nazis anymore. I love them too much.
I have fallen in love with Hitler, Goddess bless his soul!
Some well-intentioned Christians pray for the salvation of Hitler's soul.
They therefore believe that there is something wrong with it. They are free
to think so.
When I say Heil Hitler, I say Heil to his soul. He is the divine. He is me.
I am him.
I don't say Heil to what he did nor to what neo-nazis are now doing in his
name.
As a teen, I tore down the campaign posters of the French neo-nazis. I
fought AGAINST them, therefore I was one of them.
Now, I notice within me the increasing tendency to fight FOR something, for
a peaceful, loving world.
This doesn't mean that I behave in a "spiritual manner". Recently my
symptoms of prana-kundalini (heat along spine) have been mostly absent but
sometimes, when I argue with my wife, I can feel K firing up a little bit.
It may seem strange that K manifests not when I am doing 'good deeds' but
when I am arguing! Yet when I argue now, I do so honestly, I speak my mind
instead of repressing my emotions. It leads to some blockages being cleared,
misunderstanding being resolved.... and our husband and wife relationship
improves.
Hitler created the big argument that helped to get over with some unfinished
business, so that shakti energy can move more freely within the European
collective unconscious and emerge and awaken a few decades later many
European people.
To the Jewish community, this may sound unfair. Their suffering was real and
I make it sound like it was their fault anyway, their Karma... No, it is not
my aim to put the blame on them. Nobody is to blame. It just happened
because it had to. It's now time to move on. But a portion of the Jewish
Diaspora choose to play victim up until now. Yes, they are victims... of
Saddam Hussein, of the Palestinians... and probably of themselves. At the
end, they themselves victimize others. Peace in the Middle East will arise
because they are in the process of choosing to play another game, a
constructive one...
To our friends in India too, the above may not seem fair. The fanatic threat
is real. The arm race with Pakistan, its Muslim neighbor is worrisome. Yet,
may I tell you that in the country where I live now, the situation doesn't
look much better.
Internally, the situation is stable and there is a lot to be happy about.
The Republic of China is an example of democracy for most of its neighbors.
So much progress has been done in terms of human rights. The president has
just granted amnesty to prisoners of conscience. The government is willing
to tackle corruption and pollution problems. The idea of sustainable
development is making its way into the consciousness of the population....
It all sounds good, yet this free, independent, fully democratic country is
not recognized by the UN or any of the world's powers, including the USA,
Canada, Japan, all the EU countries... The country where I live doesn't
exist as a country.
Even worse: we are facing a constant barrage of threats from our much bigger
neighbor: the People's Republic of China. Every now and then, they remind us
that a war between the two sides of the Taiwan straight is imminent. 4 year
ago, they even sent missile above the capital city, Taipei... Clinton sent
US warships along... Newspapers keep reminding us that communist China is
upgrading its rusty military equipment and that soon they will be able to
start AND win a war.
Ironically, Bush undemocratic victory is welcome here. Bush is much less
conciliating with Communist China than Clinton has been. We are playing our
own version of the arm race here. Pakistan explodes a nuclear bomb, India
has to do so too. India is now a recognized nuclear power, its neighbor
China is getting worried and upgrades its military. The communist army is
getting stronger and a war over Taiwan is getting more likely... Meanwhile
the USA is bound by law (Taiwan Protection Act or something like that) to
make sure that the Chinese Republic's military is as strong (but not
stronger) as the People's Republic. Bush is much more willing to help Taiwan
upgrade its military than Clinton has been... and that may upset Mainland
China and force them to somehow find a pretext to open fire.
We have our own local Hitler...
Do I choose to worry about it all... ?
I did a bit, in the past... it was my free will to do so.
Now, I use my free will not to worry.
I align myself to the evolving energy, that which transcends nationalistic
duality.
Long live the souls of the Chinese Communist leaders!
Let your Indian Hitler do its job. Carry on focussing on a loving world. The
surgery doesn't need to be that painful.
Heil Hitler!
Augustin.
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