How Germany Transfers its Holocaust Guilt to the Palestinians

The German State’s Support for Israel Mirrors the Nazis' Support for Zionism in the 1930s 

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On Friday we are holding a webinar on the theme ‘How Germany Transfers Its Guilt to the Palestinians’ on German complicity in Israel’s holocaust in Gaza.

We will ask why is it that the German State has been so vociferous in supporting Israel’s Genocide in Gaza? What is it that compelled Germany to join Israel in defending itself at the International Court of Justice? Why is it that Germany supplies Israel with 30% of the weapons used to kill Palestinians?

Angela Merkl described Israel as the German State’s Staatsräson,”, its reason to exist and with good reason. After WW2 it was the reparations agreement between Germany and Israel which enabled Germany to join the Western Alliance against the Soviet Union.

Germany supplied billions of marks to Israel, much of it in military equipment, and in return Israel turned a blind eye to the failure of the German state to deNazify. During the Eichmann Trial strenuous efforts were made to keep the name of Hans Globke, Chancellor Konrad Adenaeur’s closest adviser out of the trial. 

Globke had been instrumental in drawing up and implementing the Nuremberg Laws which stripped German Jews of their nationality and citizenship. 

Israel in essence traded the memory of the Jewish dead in the holocaust for arms and money. This caused a massive uproar in Israel itself but the reparations agreement went ahead. The reparations themselves were paid to the Israeli state not the holocaust survivors.

The Nazis and the Zionists – the untold story

There is however nothing new in the German State’s support for Israel and Zionism. In the 1930s the Nazis were also very fond of the Zionists who they considered the ‘good Jews.’

The Zionists alone were able to organise and even wear uniforms and parade with their own flags. Reinhard Heydrich, Deputy to Himmler in the SS, who Gerard Reitlinger described in The Final Solution as ‘the ‘real engineer of the final solution’ issued, on 28 January 1935 a Directive stating that:

the activity of the Zionist-oriented youth organisations that are engaged in the occupational restructuring of the Jews … lies in the interest of the National Socialist state’s leadership…. (they are) not to be treated with that strictness that it is necessary to apply to the members of the so-called German-Jewish organisations (assimilationists).

The result was that the activities of Zionist groups were supervised with ‘more benevolence’ than comparable activities by non-Zionist Jewish groups. The Gestapo and the SD ‘place(d) no restrictions on Zionist organisations.’

In May 1935 Schwarze Korps, paper of the SS, wrote that:

the Zionists adhere to a strict racial position and by emigrating to Palestine they are helping to build their own Jewish state.... The assimilation-minded Jews deny their race and insist on their loyalty to Germany or claim to be Christians because they have been baptised in order to subvert National Socialist principles.  [Lucy Dawidowicz, War Against the Jews, p.118]

Even the Nazis left the Jewish Hospital in Berlin alone whereas Israel has attacked every single hospital in Gaza

The Nazis and their fellow German nationalists had long favoured the Zionists who they saw as legitimising what they said about the Jews being a separate nation from the Germans. As early as 1919 Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi Party’s main theoretician, who was hanged at Nuremberg, wrote that 

Zionism must be vigorously supported in order to encourage a significant number of German Jews to leave for Palestine or other destinations.

The German State has instigated or been involved in four genocides or holocausts since the beginning of the 20^th century. It is therefore no surprise that the German state should leap at the opportunity to lend its support to a fifth holocaust in Gaza.

The first were the Maji Maji and Herero/Nama genocides in East and South-West Africa between 1904 and 1907. The next genocide was the Armenian genocide carried out by the Turkish army but with the complicity of senior German generals. Turkey and Germany were allies in the first World War. Last of all was the Nazi Holocaust.

There were intimate links between the African holocausts and the Nazi holocaust. The German Colonial Governor of German South-West Africa during the genocides was Heinrich Ernst Göring, the father of Hermann Goering, Hitler’s Deputy.

It is therefore no surprise that the German state is funding and arming Israel’s genocide. There isn’t a genocide that the German State hasn’t smiled upon but this time it is being carried out with the support of most of Western Europe?

The Israeli state itself is being Nazified. Gaza is being subject to the same policy the Nazis applied to the Jewish ghettos of Poland, Death by Hunger. Gaza today is a death camp.

At the beginning of May, a well-known television producer, Elad Barashi posted on X: "Good morning, let there be a Shoa (Holocaust) in Gaza." 

And just in case the message hadn’t sunk home, wrote in another post

"I can't understand the people here in the State of Israel who don't want to fill Gaza with gas showers... or train cars... and finish this story! Let there be a Holocaust in Gaza."

The Israeli Police, who are quick to arrest Israeli Arabs for the slightest expression of support for the Palestinian resistance, have of course done nothing. Only Israeli Palestinians get arrested for ‘incitement’. Channel 14, the far-right TV Channel that supports Netanyahu has likewise done nothing.

Exterminatory, holocaust language has become normalised in Israel today where 47% of the population supports the extermination of every Palestinian in Gaza. In fact 65% believe that the lesson of Amalek, the tribe that god told the Israelites to wipe out to the last infant, is taken into consideration.

Israel’s so-called Humanitarian Aid Foundation has become a honey trap where massacres of hundreds of starving Palestinians take place daily.

We had an inkling of the true attitude of Israelis to even Palestinian citizens of Israel, who they falsely boast have equal rights when an Iranian missile struck Tamra, an ancient Palestinian town in Israel.

What was the reaction of residents in a nearby Jewish town? A video taken at the time shows one man crying ‘To the village! To the village!’ 

and then several women’s voices join in, someone starts clapping and together they sing a verse that has become a Jewish extremist anthem. It consists of one line: “May your village burn” sung over and over again

Four members of the Khatab family died because unlike Jewish citizens in Israel they did not have a bunker to hide in. The Guardian reported that:

in common with most Palestinian-majority towns, Tamra does not have a single underground shelter. Like much else in Israel, there is nothing equal about the way death comes from the sky.

“The Israeli government, since the creation of the state, didn’t invest in one public shelter for the Arab part of society.”

Tamra’s mayor, Mussa Abu Rumi, said. The reinforced “safe rooms” in new-build houses are an inferior alternative, as the fate of the Khatibs showed, and Abu Rumi said only 40% of Tamra residents even have those.

This is the reality of Israeli Apartheid yet miserable racist creatures like Starmer, Lammy and Kemi Badenoch talk about Israel being ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ even as it commits a genocide in Gaza.

The Zionists Wrote Off the Millions of Jews in Europe as 'Dust on the wheels of history'

An article in Ha’aretz 'When You Leave Israel and Enter Gaza, You Are God': described how many soldiers in Gaza reported moral injuries: "I felt like, like, like a Nazi ... it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis and they were the Jews."

Ironically this is exactly what the Italian Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, Primo Levi, said to a reporter, Filippo Gentiloni, from the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, that “Everybody is somebody’s Jew,”. At that point in the interview, printed on June 29, 1982, Gentiloni closed the Levi quote and added a sentence of his own: “And today Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.”

Today it should be clear to all except the politically blind that Zionism, the ideology of Jewish Supremacism that created the Israeli state, was drawn from the same poisonous stream that the Nazi party and its ideologues drank from.

Is it any wonder that the German state enthuses over Israel? Far from assuaging its guilt, Israel’s genocide in Gaza helps Germany normalise and relativise the Nazi holocaust.

Tony Greenstein