A trip to the ideological roots of Nazism

Exotic travel, change of scenery: this is how one could sum up the work of Johann Chapoutot. Everyone knows people who are conservative or reactionary ideas are familiar even if we do not share them. Nazism has nothing to do with it. Theorists studied by Chapoutot consider that humanity was mistaken there 2000 years with the advent of Christianity they call "grammar failures". Love of neighbor, compassion for the weak, universalism: this is the beginning of the great subversion healthy values ​​of primitive humanity - of course German. The curse begins with Jesus Christ and especially St. Paul (treated "epileptic Jew") who spread the plague in the history of the world.

We learn that the Nazis felt that the Christian barbarism was guilty of a massacre of millions of Aryan women under the guise of witch hunt in the Middle Ages. Himmler created in 1935 a special "witches" mission will mobilize 14 researchers responsible for documenting the crime. For nine years, these historians will compile all that Europe has the German archives to find the trace of women executed as witches. This results in 34,000 individual sheets recording the place of arrest, the reason for incarceration, the mode of torture, the names of whistleblowers, the executioner, etc. It is far from original estimates that mentioned up to 9 million massacred Aryan women. Disappointed at the failure of the supposed investigation prove the existence of an anti-genocide women Himmler dissolved the commission in 1944.

Best known is the decision to eliminate babies born to mentally ill or carriers of genetic diseases (1933) and then finally the mentally ill themselves (1939). But the argument that leads to the extermination of patients is, to say the least, unexpected: "Demand that bad people can not bring forth other waste is the same rational evidence and is, if it is planned and executed, the most humane act of mankind. " A total of 400 000 patients of all kinds, newborns and adults, will be killed in 12 years of the Nazi regime.

Social Darwinism Nazis often uses animal metaphors to demonstrate that it is normal that the strong eat the small. Over the references, we discover a strange zoology that cats, unlike dogs, are considered Oriental animals or Jews. Nazi writer Wilhelm Vesper wrote: "Cats are a foreign race, unpredictable. They Nont no place here. They come dOrient. They know sintégrer any community. They are asocial, Germans like dogs. "(In his book" Crime and Utopia ", Frédéric Rouvillois wrote that the Nazis exterminated Jews cats in 1942," there are no small disgrace, he concluded.)