Vannyel, some Jewish conspiracies demonstrably exist. The question is what kind, and how powerful. A “straw man” argument says that because it’s absurd to think Jews control the universe, it’s also absurd to say they have disproportionate power and influence in a given society.
Whoever complained that the expression “one-fourth Jewish” shows Nazi thinking, I remind you that Israel’s Law of Return uses a definition of Jewishness that is closer to Hitlerian than Rabbinic concepts. For the very good reason that it better reflects social reality.
Bob, on the question of Jewish domination of Communism, here is a site covering the situation in Poland in particular:
users.cyberone.com.au/myers/poland.html
And here’s another, admittedly somewhat less restrained, look at the larger situation:
revisionisthistory.org/communist.html
You think me wicked for saying violence was the only solution. Well, it’s a similar situation to Iraq today (if that’s easier to grasp). Democracy would put the Shi’is in power, so naturally Shi’is support it and Sunnis don’t. So what options does that leave the Sunnis? Skipping back to prewar Germany, how does a group of German nationalists reason with a group of Jewish Communists? The problem isn’t that they didn’t understand each other, the problem was that their goals and interests directly conflicted.
During World War II Jews supported various things that seemed likely to help them–international Communism in contrast to German nationalism, capitalism because money always helps, and so on. Hedging their bets, you might say. Same sort of thing still goes on today.
I think a lot of our difficulty of understanding this period comes from cultural differences. We forget that most German political parties of the time had those funky uniforms, for example–it wasn’t just a Nazi thing, there was a worldwide military fetish going on. (Take a closer look at the Boy Scouts.)
Hitler screaming and waving his arms around? Standard public speaking technique for an era with less broadcast technology than today. In person people described him as quiet and polite.
Concentration camps? Invented by Britain during the Anglo-Boer War. All this talk of a “holocaust” is basically Jewish propaganda to single out one set of violent acts, and imbue them with a special aura of sanctity that they deny to other similar acts (especially ones which they commit).
Maybe the biggest difference is that for us, Nazis are marginal and weird. (Bob calls me one in order to get people not to pay attention to me.) But back then, they were just regular people.