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In the previous article, we tackled man’s crucial role in establishing societies and civilizations. We made it a point that Nazism was an offshoot of the desire to unite the German people around one party so that Germany might retrieve its losses in World War I. Also, we explained the means which the Nazis used to unite the people, such as propaganda, as well as training and qualifying youth to join the Nazi party. Likewise, they utilized education.
Because the Nazis realized the influence of education, they implanted their ideology-that the Aryan race was a master race- into the learners’ minds, describing the rest of the races as inferior, especially the Jews, for they demolish culture and civilization. In fact, the main goal of education was implanting racism and anti-Semitism in students’ minds as well as attaching them to Hitler whose photos were hung on school walls and glued to school books!
Anti-Semitism made its debut in Joseph Goebbels’, Reich Minister of Propaganda, speech in Nuremberg: “… Bolshevism (Maximalism) is a war waged by the Jews, an inferior race, against culture, not just against bourgeoisie. Its ultimate goal is to totally annihilate the social, cultural, and economic development planned by the West for the sake of a gang of rootless vagabonds…”
Here, the Nazi minister created a link between the Jews and Bolsheviks (Maximalists), alluding to Lenin the leader of the 1917 Communist Revolution, in an attempt to show that the Jews want to destroy the Western civilization.
Thus, the goal of the Nazi was to expel the Jews as well as other races from the social and other institutes in Germany. Worthy mentioning is that Jewish and other teachers were laid off after 1933. About 300,000 teachers joined the Nazi Party, thus marking the biggest number of employees of all German institutes.
Loyalty
Schools and the Hitler Youth (HJ) showed deep interest in promoting obedience and loyalty to Hitler and the State’s authorities and the military amongst German youth. They also enticed them to sacrifice their lives for their fatherland. The youth vowed to be loyal to their leader, Hitler, serve him and their country in the future as soldiers. Also, they considered Hitler’s birthday a national day!
By 1936, youth between ten and seventeen were compelled to join HJ and the League of Young Girls.
Toward Imperialism
Thus, the people were prepared by propaganda, patriotic songs, and military tunes which easily implanted Nazi ideology within them. Likewise, youth from both sexes became loyal to Nazi leaders who perpetrated several atrocities, including the destruction of whatever contradicted their ideas, such expelling Jews from cultural institutions and burning great writers’ masterpieces in the so-called “Nazi book burnings”.
To conceal the Nazi imperialist motives as well as the Holocaust, Germany hosted the Olympics of August, 1936, excluding all racist aphorisms in order to present a fake scene of tolerant Germany!
The first step toward realizing her imperialist dreams was taken on September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, having secured the neutrality of the Soviet Union according to the Nazi-Soviet Pact (aka. Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact). Also, through propaganda, the Nazis tried to elude the people into believing that this was self-defense from Polish brutality and justify embarking on war: for the German people did not want to fight.
As per the pact, the Soviet Union stayed aloof. However, being enticed by the Nazi, the Soviets invaded the Baltics on June, 1940 and annexed them to their land. The turning point, however, came in 1941 when the Nazi troops invaded the Soviet Union, thus violating the pact, invaded the Baltics and raided Soviet land. However, the Red Army would not let Moscow fall. In 1942, the German troops attacked the Soviet Union in order to invade Stalingrad which is located on the Volga, Baku, as well as the Caspian petroleum resources. Yet, the Soviets counterattacked, only for the Sixth Nazi army to surrender in 1943.
Defeating Nazism
Nazis were defeated when the Soviet troops attacked Germany, to reach Berlin in 1945. A Russian war correspondent describes the incident, saying, “None of us shall ever forget what happened during that night. Our troops set twenty-three bridges on the Oder. Our mechanized Infantry kept advancing on flat land, producing thunderous sounds. Our mechanized Infantry was opening the way to Infantry. We were preceded by tanks and different types of artillery. Verily, I have never seen such a strong defense system as the one with which the enemy surrounded his capital. When we entered some houses, we found some of Goebbels’ traces: for people had inscribed on their walls: “Every German will defend his capital; we will drive the Red away from Berlin! Let him try us!” This sentence was in stark white.
This victory led to Hitler’s suicide, Germany’s surrendering, and the Nazis’ downfall on May 9 which became a national day in Russia on which they celebrate defeating Nazism.
Worthy mentioning is that President Abdul Fattah al-Sis travelled to Russia last week, having been invited by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to attend the seventieth anniversary of victory. He attended the parade at the Red Square and put a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Defeating Nazism is a victory for life, prosperity and civilization, as well as preserving humanity. What a story! Stories never end in Beautiful Egypt.
General Bishop
Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center
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