Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYto the term “redemptive ideology” and writes: “I do not know of a singlesuch redemptive ideology which does not have murderous traits –from the Christianity of the crusades to the current Jewish, Islamic orHinduistic fundamentalism.” He also wants “to put the communistatrocities at the very top of the list,” and he also could have talked aboutthe “extermination of the Kulaks” when he mentioned the “Nazi plan”“to starve roughly 30 million inhabitants of the conquered Soviet Unionto death in order to make food available to Germany.” But all this primarilyenables him to state with strong emphasis: plans like this haveaimed at a genocide, “but that is not the same as the Shoah.” In contrastto this the Shoah was “a very special genocide – total, global, purelyideological.” But apparently Bauer nonetheless does not accept the interpretationof the “Shoah” by the Orthodox [Jews], who consider theterm “singularity of the Holocaust” as an insulting denigration of themulti-millennia lasting sufferings of the Jewish people and who evenconsider the Shoah as a just punishment for the severe sins of modernJews, especially the assimilation into “the peoples.” 5Definitions given by modern, frequently atheistic Jews are of a differentnature, such as: “Only a devil could conceive such a thing, atechnocratic devil at the culmination of a science gone insane”… “theinfernal process of the perfect crime,” “Philosophically seen this wasthe absolute evil.” 6 Statements such as the one claiming that Hitler hasattacked God himself {p. 5} when he attacked “God’s people” have atheological character, and essentially also the complaint that the Holocaustis not yet over for the Jewish people, because the process of assimilation,as the monster which it is, has the evil goal to create a worldfree of Jews (Novick, pp. 244, 259). That such complaints constitute a“downplaying of the Holocaust” in German eyes, although that is exactlywhat they do not want to be, does not need to be highlighted.I may once more point to my own definition of 1963, also becauseYehuda Bauer expressly refers to my “famous book” (Der Faschismusin seiner Epoche): “Not criminal humans committed criminal acts inHitler’s extermination of the Jews, but instead principles raged themselvesto death in an unparalleled misdeed”… This characterization “restoresthe highest of all honors to the millions of his [Hitler’s] victims:it highlights that they, who have been exterminated as vermin, did notdie as the unfortunate objects of a repulsive crime but as representativesduring the most desperate attack ever led against the human being andthe transcendence in it.” 7 Hence, just like Bauer’s and Wiesel’s, my def-289