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Dear Readers,
Baidoo's first paragraph has no substance and is aimed at seeking sympathy.
But I will not allow him to distort my work. In that case I am reproducing it here for readers to take a second look at it and make their one informed conclusions. Here is it:
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Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened–Hitler's Mein Kampf 1
PHILIP KOBINA BAIDOO, JR. AND HIS AGITPROP REVISIONIST HISTORY
Mr. Baidoo, the half-story teller is at it again!
First off, we should want to bring to Mr. Baidoo’s attention little-known facts about Jewish contribution to the European Holocaust, just as some African chiefs and kings did both in the European Slave Trade (the so-called Transatlantic Slave Trade) and the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. We are here referring to the Judenrats (Jewish Council of Elders) in the case of the Holocaust. Even more conspicuously, Mr. Baidoo's articles did not mention what historian Bryan Mark Rigg calls "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" (see his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military"). This is to be expected because Mr. Baidoo is not a well-rounded writer. We have more than sufficiently overstated this observation in our previous rejoinder articles exposing the weaknesses of his arguments.
That said, the implications of Rigg’s profound historical work is mind-boggling in terms of the fact that not many people are aware Jews formed part of the Nazi Army, some holding senior positions in it. The other point is that some Jewish organizations, scholars, and leaders did not particularly like the book's revelations, fearing that, among other reasons, others might use them to justify the actions of Hitler and the Nazis (Dr. Rigg is a Cambridge-trained historian and Jewish himself; see his other book "Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich").
More important, though, Mr. Baidoo failed to show the links among the Holocaust, colonialism, Nazism (“Mein Kampf”), and the Herero and Namaqua Genocide (the first of such in modern history; the German Holocaust and its associated diabolical acts had its colonial roots in the German extermination of the Herero and Namaqua of South-West Africa, present-day Namibia, and American racist laws and her development of eugenics). Again Mr. Baidoo may not have known these facts. Here are some important texts (all written by leading Jewish scholars, authors, historians, and political scientists) demonstrating Jewish supposed collaborations with the Nazis leading up to, during, and after the Holocaust (the Final Solution) for Mr. Baidoo:
1) "The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine" (Edwin Black)
2) "51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis" (Lenni Brenner)
3) "Zionism in the Age of Dictators" (Lenni Brenner)
4) "Perfidy" (Ben Hecht)
5) "Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945" (Yehuda Bauer)
6) "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" (Norman Finkelstein)
7) "The Unheeded Cry" (Abraham Fuchs)
8) "The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust" (Tom Segev)
9) "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" (Hannah Arendt)
So much for Jewish involvement in the Holocaust. We mentioned earlier that the German Holocaust had its colonial roots in South West Africa (Namibia) and American racist laws and her development of eugenics. These statements are well-documented facts (Edwin Black). The latter writes: “In ‘Mein Kampf,’ published in 1924, Hitler quoted American eugenic ideology and openly displayed a thorough knowledge of American eugenics. ‘There is today one state,’ wrote Hitler, ‘in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of immigration] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States.’” Mr. Baidoo glossed this fact in discussing “Mein Kampf.”
AMERICAN EUGENICS, ADOLPH HITLER AND NAZISM
The story of eugenics is deeper and captivating. It is generally believed among historians that its modern formulation originated with Sir Francis Gaston, Charles Darwin’s cousin, in the Victorian Age. It then traveled from the United Kingdom (Britain), where Mr. Baidoo presently lives, to America where it was perfected. From America eugenics landed in Germany. American scientists and research institutions, for instance the Carnegie Institution, began sharing their expertise and findings with German scientists. Also an American foundation such as the Rockefeller Foundation “helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz,” writes Black. “The most commonly suggested method of eugenicide in America was a ‘lethal chamber’ or public locally operated gas chambers.”
Gas chambers became one of the potent weapons the Nazis used to annihilate their victims. We should also stress that Eugen Fischer, Chancellor of the University of Berlin and one of the important German scientists involved in eugenic experiments on ethnic Namibians in the beginning of the 20th century, taught medicine to Nazi doctors including Otmar von Verschuer, who in turn had Josef Mengele as one of his research assistants. Both Fischer and another German Frantz von Epp, who also played a leading role in the Herero Genocide, would later lend their expertise to Hitler and the Nazis. We should bear in mind that the Herero and Namaqua Genocide and eugenic experiments in South West Africa predated the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. Black recalls the relationship between Verschuer and Mengele:
“Verschuer had a long-time assistant. His name was Josef Mengele. On May 30, 1943, Mengele arrived at Auschwitz. Verschuer notified the German Research Society, ‘My assistant, Dr. Josef Mengele (M.D., Ph.D.) joined me in this branch of research. He is presently employed Hauptsturmfuhrer [captain] and camp physician in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Anthropological testing of the most diverse racial groups in this concentration camp is being carried out with permission of the SS Reichsfuhrer [Himmler].’”
The Germans had used concentration camps and slave labor in connection with the Herero and Namaqua of South West Africa (Namibia) long before their appearance in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, just as the British had used concentration camps in the connection with the Boers during the Anglo-Boer Wars in South Africa (Finkelstein). These are just by the way. Black continues:
“Only after eugenics became entrenched in the United States was the campaign transplanted into Germany, in no small measure through the efforts of California eugenicists, who published booklets idealizing sterilization and circulated them to German Officials and scientists. Hitler studied American eugenics laws…Hitler proudly told his comrades just how closely he followed the progress of the American eugenics movement. I have studied with great interest,’ he told a fellow Nazi, ‘the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock.’ Hitler wrote a fan letter to American eugenic leader Madison Grant calling his race-based eugenics book, ‘The Passing of the Great Race’ his Bible.”
The successes of Nazi eugenics caught the attention of eugenicists across America, with California eugenicists republishing “Nazi propaganda for American consumption” (Black). California eugenicists also organized scientific exhibits for Nazi scientists (1934). Black further notes: “More than just providing the scientific roadmap, America funded Germany’s eugenic institutions. By 1926, Rockefeller had donated some $410, 000…to hundreds of German researchers. In May 1926, Rockefeller awarded $250,000 to the German Psychiatric Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute…Among the leading psychiatrists at the German Psychiatric Institute was Ernst Rudin, who became director and eventually an architect of Hitler’s systematic medical repression.”
“Another in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute’s eugenic complex of institutions was the institute for Brain Research,” Black continues. “Since 1915, it had operated out of a single room. Everything changed when Rockefeller money arrived in 1929. A grant of $317,000 allowed the Institute to construct a major building and take center stage in German race biology. The Institute received additional grants from the Rockefeller Foundation during the next several years. Leading the Institute, once again, was Hitler’s medical henchman Ernst Rudin. Rudin’s organization became a prime director and recipient of the murderous experimentation and research conducted on Jews, Gypsies and others."
Black concludes: “A special recipient of Rockefeller funding was the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin. For decades, American eugenicists had craved twins to advance their research into heredity. The Institute was now prepared to undertake such research on an unprecedented level… At the time of Rockefeller's endowment, Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, a hero in American eugenics circles, functioned as a head of the Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. Rockefeller funding of that Institute continued both directly and through other research conduits during Verschuer's early tenure.
“In 1935, Verschuer left the Institute to form a rival eugenics facility in Frankfurt that was much heralded in the American eugenic press. Research on twins in the Third Reich exploded, backed up by government decrees. Verschuer wrote in ‘Der Erbarzt,’ a eugenic doctor's journal he edited, that Germany's war would yield a ‘total solution to the Jewish problem’…
“Mengele began searching the boxcar arrivals for twins. When he found them, he performed beastly experiments, scrupulously wrote up the reports and sent the paperwork back to Verschuer's institute for evaluation. Often, cadavers, eyes and other body parts were also dispatched to Berlin's eugenic institutes.
“Rockefeller executives never knew of Mengele. With few exceptions, the foundation had ceased all eugenic studies in Nazi-occupied Europe before the war erupted in 1939. But by that time the die had been cast. The talented men Rockefeller and Carnegie financed, the institutions they helped found, and the science it helped create took on a scientific momentum of their own.
“After the war, eugenics was declared a crime against humanity–an act of genocide. Germans were tried and they cited the California statutes in their defense. To no avail. They were found guilty…
“Human genetics' genocidal roots in eugenics were ignored by a victorious generation that refused to link itself to the crimes of Nazism and by succeeding generations that never knew the truth of the years leading up to war. Now governors of five states, including California have issued public apologies to their citizens, past and present, for sterilization and other abuses spawned by the eugenics movement…”
Black’s account is merely one of many well-documented scholarly works on the subject. Fortunately or unfortunately, such accounts expose America’s indirect complicity in fostering the German racist national character and how that racist national character came to define German eugenics and the Holocaust itself. Mr. Baidoo did not find it necessary to bring these facts to the attention of his readership. Alas, many questions about the Second World War and the Holocaust remain unresolved or shrouded in history. Even the actual number of Jews who supposedly died in the Holocaust remains an unresolved conundrum, a heated question being debated in the international community today!
And finally, Mr. Baidoo may not have been aware that a significant percentage of the wealth Hitler and the Nazis stole from Jews in Germany and across Europe, part of which they hid in Switzerland, were hidden in America and are still here (Finkelstein). In a related context the capitalist Swiss, their banks, and their links to Nazi stolen treasure and the Vatican, Western investments in Nazi Germany, propaganda campaigns staged by the governments of Canada, Britain and Australia aimed at concealing Nazi war criminals living among their citizens, knowledge that the British and Americans had known about the Holocaust as far back as 1941, and successful attempts by American and British code-breakers of Swiss banks to conceal Nazi gold transfers as a protective cover for America’s intelligence boss Allen Dulles, etc., completely left out of Mr. Baidoo’s naïve account (Aarons & Loftus).
On the other hand other scholars argue that the British intelligence/government had known about the Holocaust as early as September 1939 but chose to do nothing about it. The British sent a cache of comprehensive intelligence information to their American counterparts in 1942, the same year President Franklin D. Roosevelt publicly pleaded for solid information on what the Nazis were doing to Jews. The Americans, like the British before them, did not act on the intelligence reports and suppressed it (Grose). Yet Eleanor Roosevelt, President Roosevelt’s wife, and some prominent American politicians did not take it at all lightly when W.E.B. Du Bois took the American government to the United Nations (UN) and petitioned it to look into the manner African Americans were being unfairly treated and terrorized across America. Eleanor was the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Commission supervised the draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She was also a national board member of the NAACP.
And in spite of the fact she supported some African American causes, her husband President Roosevelt, on the other hand, refused to support a bill meant to criminalize lynching. His primary objection to the bill was antagonizing Southerners if he had supported the bill and losing the Southern vote at the polls on that account. This was in 1935, about seven years prior to British intelligence officials handing over Nazi secrets on the Holocaust to his administration, which he failed to act on anyway.
Could it be that President Roosevelt viewed Jews and Africans the way Hitler did? This is a controversial question because by not defending a bill that would have criminalized lynching and possibly saved some African-American lives, President Roosevelt indirectly lent his support to the act, though he did not literally send African Americans to gas chambers and extermination camps as in the case of Hitler. But lynching sent some African Americans to the gas chambers and extermination camps in the American South: Their painful and horrendous deaths in the pits of American racism!
Unfortunately Jewish organizations and leaders have not mustered moral and political courage to go after the American government as they did with European government and corporations (Finkelstein). Evidently, it appears Jewish leaders do not want to lose America's support for the State of Israel and to betray the bond America has always shared with World Jewry, given what the former [America] did for the latter [World Jewry] during and after the Second World War. The other important questions are: Who financed Hitler and the Nazis? Which countries re-armed Nazi Germany and which countries helped build and expand Hitler’s technological base? Which American, British, and French corporations supported and benefited from the Nazis? How were Nazi profits repatriated back to their American owners? What role did Wall Street play in the rise of Hitler and the Nazis? How did the capitalists of the West finance and benefit from Hitler’s National Socialism? How many of the people killed during the Second World War were actually killed by the US, USSR, Japan, France, Britain, and others besides Nazi Germany?
These are important simple questions Mr. Baidoo’s articles did not delve into, though the answers are already in the public domain in the form of archival and declassified records from Russia, America, Britain, Germany, Japan, and France, as well as in scholarly publications. Mr. Baidoo may have been unaware that governments and multinational corporations from the capitalist West, including Britain where he lives, traded with socialist Nazi Germany during the war (WW2), what one writer aptly refers to as “the Nazi-American plot 1933-1949” (Higham). Perhaps more suspiciously, we were not educated on the specifics of the capitalist connection to the Holocaust and the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. For instance, “The Dearborn Independent” or “The Ford International Weekly,” a paper Henry Ford, the famous American industrialist and automotive manufacturer, owned published the anti-Semitic “The Intentional Jew” series that was later compiled into a book.
The book and its newspaper series influenced an entire generation of German youths would become part of the Nazi machinery. Hitler read them also and “The International Jew” influenced and informed his authorship of “Mein Kampf” as well as of Nazi politics (Of course Nazism had been around before Hitler’s birth as well as in a number of nations. Namely, he did not invent Nazism. Nazism had existed under various guises in places such as the United States (slavery and Jim Crowism), post-Columbian America (extermination of Native Americans), Australia (extermination of Australian Aborigines), Africa (extermination of the Herero and Namaqua; Apartheid), and Western Europe prior to Hitler’s birth). Regarding the parenthetic statement however, one author notes: “The anti-Semitism obsession of the Nazis, if not necessarily the German populace, is demonstrable even before Hitler. As Breitman puts it: ‘Even Hitler and Himmler could not know then how far or how soon they would be able to pursue their emotional impulses and ideological goals. But they knew that they needed manpower…for what they considered a political-racial war’” (Grose).
This fact and others like it invalidate the misguided notion that Hitler invented Nazism. In fact, Ford is the only American mentioned in “Mein Kampf.” Hitler kept a copy of the book in his private library, having been cited as one among a collection of books to shape his life (Ryback). Hitler also kept “a life-size portrait of Ford next to his desk” (Dobbs). Finally, he [Hitler] awarded Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle (July 1938), Germany’s national highest decoration for non-Germans (Dobbs). Beyond these basic facts, the Ford Motor Company established joint ventures with the company I.G. Farben, a German concern. I.G. Farben produced and marketed a poison gas Zyklon B, an invention by Fritz Haber, a Jew, and his team of scientists/researchers, (see also the “I.G. Farben Trial”) used in extermination camps and gas chambers (Borkin; Jeffreys), leading to the deaths of millions.
Also John D. Rockefeller, another famous American capitalist, was reportedly involved with I.G. Farben through his companies Standard Oil Co. Inc. (and Esso Corp). I.G. Farben was one of the largest and most influential companies in the world and therefore its tentacles spread out into every corner of the world, whose directorship, scientists, and researchers teamed up with other capitalist industrialists from Western Europe in several ventures. Perhaps the surprising aspect of this shameful legacy beyond the deep ties American (and Western European) capitalist industrialists and corporations had with Hitler’s war machine and the general leadership of Nazi Germany (Riemann) is a little-known fact involving a capitalist- or privately-owned company’s contractual engagement with the Nazis that culminated in the company constructing and running some of Hitler’s concentration camps (Borkin). Again capitalism, profit motivation, human medical experimentation (eugenics), the Holocaust, slave labor, and Nazi politics (Lindner) are totally ignored in Mr. Baidoo’s articles.
Neither did Mr. Baidoo address the frustration and opposition, one American lawyer sent by the American government to Germany to decartelize Germany, had to endure at the hands of men with ties to Wall Street’s and German corporations (Martin). These “hidden” facts are gradually coming out as research into factors leading to the Holocaust and the Second World War intensifies. The facts are actually there in the public domain but academic or establishment historians, particularly in America, are trained to look elsewhere rather than directly into the face of Holocaust and Second World War historiographies, archival and declassified records. This is fast changing as some of these academic and establishment historians are turning away from the methodological parochialism of their academic professions towards a more inclusive methodology of historicism and comparative valuation of nonconventional historical material.
We can therefore understand why some lay writers and readership miss out on such important facts of history. Yet capitalism was right there in the midst of carnage, human suffering and mass murder, misery, wars, slave labor, exterminations, and so on, reaping untold profits. Even so, we still may want to ask: Why then did Mr. Baidoo delink the capitalists from the National Socialists of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, exterminations camps, and concentration camps?
We should not overlook the essential fact that the National Socialists of Nazi Germany endorsed some of the core features of capitalism such as private ownership, while dismissing German communists. It has been suggested in some of the academic literature on the subject that capitalist America preferentially financed the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in order to prevent German communists from taking over the country. We clearly see a confirmation of this suggestion with the advent and subsequent unraveling of the so-called “Operation Paperclip” at the onset of the Cold War (Jacobsen; Lichtblau; Loftus).
Then also it has been suggested through another alternative theory that the Soviet strategically played German communists against their social democrat colleagues in the hope the strategy would give a competitive advantage to the former in electoral outcomes, although, eventually, that strategy worked in Hitler’s favor by turning it into a numerical edge, bringing him and the Nazis to power. It therefore goes without saying that the factors that projected Hitler and the Nazis are many and varied, though not as naïve and simplistic as some writers would want to claim. Soviet and American politics of manipulation (this will intensify during the Cold War), dire economic conditions following the Treaty of Versailles, anti-Semitism and Henry Ford’s propaganda machine (“The International Jew”), intra-continental mutual jealousies, struggles for continental dominance, ideological clashes among Marxism and capitalism and fascism, and other historical reasons.
Above all, what is also certain as argued by some historians is that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order requiring the federal government to do everything within its power to rescue European Jews, but the pressure mounted by big American corporations in the aftermath of the signing of the executive decree rendered the executive order inactive. In other words capitalism triumphed over human suffering. Another theory goes that the Nazi propaganda machine and other media organs made it known to the world that the Allies were fighting on behalf of Jews. And since the British and the Americans did not want to be identified with that charge, strategically refrained from acting on intelligence pointing to what the Nazis were doing to the Jews (Grose). This well-documented fact is hardly mentioned in mainstream coverage of the Holocaust as well as of the links shared amongst capitalism, the Holocaust, the rise of Hitler and Nazism, and the advent of the Second World War.
The foregoing shows how much Mr. Baidoo left out of the background history of "Mein Kampf, namely the historical connections among the African Holocaust (German extermination of the Herero and the Namaqua. This took place before the Jewish Holocaust took off). We should be equally mindful of the colonial roots of Nazism and eugenic experiments in Africa, Namibia), Nazi mistreatment of Jews (we should not exclude the Roma/Gypsies, the handicapped, homosexuals, capitalists, and “communists” in the Holocaust), Jewish complicity in the Holocaust, America's corporate links to the Holocaust and Hitler and Nazi Germany, “Mein Kampf,” and black/African suffering under Nazi Germany (Lusane), and so on.
The story and the historical record are not all that rosy, however. Thousands of Nazis came to America after the Second World War as “refugees” though many were war criminals having been involved in the Final Solution, but American officials protected some of them and then deploying them in various capacities as scientists, intelligence assets, engineers, spies, doctors, and so on. The American military, the Central Investigation Agency (CIA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) benefited from their services (Lichtblau). Readers interested in this question can read more about “Operation Paperclip," a program under which the American government headed by Harry S. Truman brought in nearly 1,600 German technicians, scientists, engineers, doctors, etc., to live and work in America, after the (American government) had given them new identities, granted them securities clearances (their criminal pasts erased), and their membership in the Nazi Party been expunged immigration documents (Lasby; Jacobson).
There also exists a detailed discussion of America’s recruitment of Nazis and fascists and collaborators of Nazis and fascists to work for America in various capacities in post-Second World War (Simpson). The Australian government, for instance, has known about the existence of Nazi war criminals in the country for decades and yet largely kept quiet about them (Mark Aarons). Some have however speculated that some of the research work done by these Nazi German scientists, now in America, in the area of biological and chemical weapons was tested on African Americans. All these do not in any way justify the Holocaust. Still, Mr. Baidoo should have approached Hitler from the standpoint of comparative methodology in which he also discussed the Catholic Church, the Asiento, the enslavement and extermination of Native Americans and Australian Aborigines, and the enslavement of Africans (Casas; Kiernan) and the role these activities played in developing Western capitalism. Mr. Baidoo’s articles completely ignored Jim Crowism, Nazism, and Apartheid.
That is, we are completely left in the dark about Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of Apartheid, and his possible connections to Nazism and Jim Crowism and free market fundamentalists, such as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, propping that diabolical regime. There have been some speculations that Verwoerd designed Apartheid in line with German eugenics, when he studied in Germany, and with Nazi ideology. He may have also have picked up some new ideas about Jim Crowism in America where he studied. Jim Crowism may have informed his creation of Apartheid. In the main Mr. Baidoo did not mention those diabolical scientists, like the Japanese Shiro Ishii, whom the Americans spared in the aftermath of the Second World War (WW2) in exchange for freely sharing their research findings with Americans. This happened in the case of some of the Nazi scientists Americans brought to work in the United States after the war.
LESSONS FROM “MEIN KAMPF” AND THE HOLOCAUST FOR TODAY
Hitler’s controversial book “Mein Kampf” has been at the center of political studies in many institutions. It has shaped the direction of post-Second World War politics, including politics of the Cold War, international relations, German politics and foreign policy strategies, genocide research and scholarship, to mention but a few. For us in Ghana and Africa it has immediate political and sociological relevance in how we live together and respect each other as a people. We are referring to tolerance.
Today in Ghana we have politicians who call on one ethnic group (Asantes) to slaughter other ethnic groups (Gas and Ewes). In Rwanda, it [Rwandan Genocide] began as soon as Hutu Militants (hardliners) and their sympathizers started calling the Tutsis, their fellow brothers and sisters, “cockroaches,” “insects,” “inferior,” and “pests.” Hutu hardliners subsequently called for the extermination of the Tutsis. Yet some of us do not see striking parallels between the behavior of the Nazis/Hutu hardliners and the Holocaust/Rwandan Genocide. This is regrettable for a number of reasons. The Rwandan Genocide in turn spilled into Eastern Congo where the seemingly unending political instability has created ample opportunities for multinational corporations from the capitalist West, particularly America, to cash in on vital minerals it needs for its production of cars, phones, space technology, computers, and the like, without paying taxes to the central government of the Congo.
Not many people are aware that some of the men among the Hutu hardliners directed some of their well-placed sympathizers to register Tutsis in certain Rwandan localities to guarantee their easy identification and swift extermination. This is similar to the task the Nazis gave the Judenrat (“Jewish Council of Elders”) across Europe, at least in those places the Germans occupied during the Second World War. The later discovery of Nazi documents (the Holocaust, eugenics, etc.) in the hands of Hutu hardliners (Kiernan) reinforces Hitler’s legacy and what uncritical imitation of foreign ideas can do to a people. Hutu hardliners and their sympathizers slaughtered the Tutsis and moderate Hutus with a ferocity probably matched by that of the Nazis in their extermination of Gypsies (properly called the Roma), Jews, and others.
The industrial scale of the Nazi extermination camps and gas chambers guaranteed the efficiency of their killing machines (recall that Edwin Black traces the concept of “gas chamber” to American eugenics).
What is more, it is also hardly known by many an individual that Hitler regretted publishing that book as it began giving him problems once he became his country’s Chancellor. It has been reported of Hitler telling his former lawyer Hans Frank in 1938 that “if he had known in 1924 that he was going to become chancellor, he would never have written his book” (Breitman). This is good but his later actions and the publication of “Zweites Buch,” the sequel to “Mein Kampf” which he thought wise never to publish as he did with “Mein Kampf” for fear of additional problems accruing to his chancellorship, cast some doubts on the sincerity of his admission to his lawyer. Anyone who has seen excerpts or even cursorily read portions of “Zweites Buch,” discovered and published by historian Gerhard Weinberg in 1961, would have known that Hitler and the Nazis held the Soviet Union and America in as much contempt perhaps as they did World Jewry.
“Zweites Buch” and “Mein Kampf” define Hitler’s foreign policy strategies for Nazi Germany and the new Germany he intended creating under Nazism. This new Germany is not substantively different from the kind of world White Supremacist William L. Pierce, the founder of the National Alliance, created in his novels “The Turner Diaries (1978)” and “Hunter (1989).”
There is a demoralizing paradox which Hitler’s genocidal instinct gave birth to, which is destroying the high-level industrialization, development, growth, and technical advancement his leadership, even if we are against his racial politics, brought to Germany, Europe, and the rest of the world. German Jews were part and parcel of this golden age of technical advancement of German society. Hitler reversed this golden age. On the other hand, what the Rwandan Genocide has done to the future of Rwanda is incalculable in monetary and psychological terms. The recent xenophobic slaughter of non-native South Africans in South Africa and killings associated with partisan politics in Ghana bespeak the danger intolerance, coupled with historical animosities and poor economic management of national resources and bad leadership and social inequality, breeds in a fragile political economy. A fragile political economy such as the one the Treaty of Versailles created for Germany on account of the reparations burden partially contributed to the rise of Nazism and with it Hitler.
Again some of us are not quick enough to discern a link between the political sentiments undergirding Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and the politics of Boko Haram, Al-Shabab, and the Lord’s Resistance Army. What these terrorist organizations have done is to replace Jews, communists, Gypsies (the Roma), capitalists, the handicapped, Slavs, and other alleged inferior human beings in “Mein Kampf” with non-Muslims and political opponents, the latter in the particular case of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Across Africa politicians are doing similarly via political ethnocentrism and ethnic nationalism. The winner-takes-all democratic capitalism Africa blindly copied from the West reinforces the moral and political paradox inherent in “Mein Kampf.” Yet Germany has recovered from her past blunders and has risen to lead Europe. Why is it that Africa and some of her politicians are assuming that shameful past blunders of Germany by creating the Boko Harams, the Al-Shababs, the Hutu hardliners, and the Lord’s Resistance Armys?
The irony of it all points to other interesting facts. The behavior of Western and non-Western conservative capitalists and the latter’s opposition to concerns raised about the environmental, social justice, equality, women’s issues, responsible capitalism, corporate social responsibility, gun control among many others, reeks of neo-Nazism. The rancid rhetoric of free market fundamentalists such as Lush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly instantiates this social and political paradox. In this light Ghana and Africa can do better than the racist, xenophobic, and social Darwinist prescriptions Hitler advanced in “Mein Kampf” and “Zweites Buch.” After all Hitler and the Nazis did not initiate the Holocaust by constructing gas chambers, concentration and extermination camps.
They began with coordinated staged rhetoric of acidic hatred much as the Hutu Militants and their sympathizers did. Osei Marfo’s outrageous outbursts on ethnocentric regionalism or balkanization, Akufo-Addo’s “All Die Be Die” war cry, and the Zulu King whose xenophobic utterances led to the unfortunate murder of Africans in South Africa all have their negative views imbued with the political character of neo-Nazism. Unfortunately, in some parts of our little world in particular and the world in general it is the political sentiments of “Mein Kampf” and “Zweites Buch” that are gradually coming back in full swing both in subtle and explicit ways. Neo-Nazism need not always have a white face. We have seen that in the persons of Idi Amin, Omar Bashir, Emperor Bokassa, Mobuto Sese Seko, Francisco Nguema, Gnassingbe Eyadema, Joseph Kony, and Charles Taylor…Yoweri Museveni had this to say about Hitler, his hero:
“As Hitler did to bring Germany together, we should also do it here. Hitler was a smart guy, but he went a bit too far for wanting to conquer the world” (The Shariat, Vol. 2, No. 15, April 15-21).
An American-based Ugandan writer and journalist, a friend of ours, implicates Museveni and his capitalist friends from the West in plundering the mineral wealth of Eastern Congo (Allimadi):
“Yet Congolese remain impoverished. Foreign powers allow bandits financed by Rwanda and Uganda to wreak havoc in Congo's eastern region, which contains most of its resources. Under this planned chaos, private corporations enjoy absolute rent; they siphon off Congo's resources through Rwanda and Uganda without paying fees or taxes to the central government.”
Just look at what an African admirer of Hitler and his bloodsucking capitalist vampires doing to Africa and her people!
CONCLUSION
In the end, Mr. Baidoo may have to revise his tattered notes on the history of the Holocaust, including but not limited to, America's contributions to the rise of Nazi Germany and the fact that the Holocaust in Europe began its journey with deep colonial taproots in South West Africa (Namibia). Mr. Baidoo needs to read more on this subject matter. We should like to ask in conclusion: Should Mr. Baidoo not have seen any wisdom in pursuing the speculation that Evan Braun, Hitler’s mistress and then wife, could have descended from Ashkenazi Jews as DNA analysis seems to indicate? Or that Hitler may have had Jewish and possibly African ancestors? We need a better, more nutritious history than the fast-food histories we are currently being fed with.
Usually intellectual obesity, or should we rather say mental atrophy, and debilitating psychological disease states are the end results of agitprop revisionist history of the kind daily propagated on Ghanaweb and other Ghanaian-based fora. Fortunately some of us and several others know better than to fall for these antiquated Hitlerite gimmicks. We are no longer in gas chambers, concentration and exterminations where we are being forced to read Henry Ford’s “The International Jews.”
We shall return…
Additional References
1) "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur" (Ben Kiernan)
2) "The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and The Colonial Roots of Nazism" (this text deals with the Herero and Namaqua Genocide; readers may also want to read the Whitaker Report (United Nations, 1985)
3) "Hitler’s Black Victim’s: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, African and African-Americans During the Nazi Era" (Clarence Lusane)
4) "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler" (Anthony C.Sutton)
5) "Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust" (Edwin Black)
6) “IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Corporation" (Expanded Version; Edwin Black)
7) “War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race” (Expanded Version; Edwin Black)
8) “The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics” (An article published in the History News Network (HNN) by Edwin Black (2003)
9) "The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of the Century-Wall Street and the Rise of the Fourth Reich (Glen Yeadon)
10) "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present" (Harriet Washington)
11) "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War 2" (Douglas Blackmon)
12) "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" (Michelle Alexander)
13) "Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation" (Isaiah Trunk)
14) "Project Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America" (Annie Jacobsen).
15) “Sanctuary: Nazi Fugitives in Australia” (Mark Aarons)
16) “Hitler’s Private Library: The Books that Shaped his Life” (Timothy W. Ryback)
17) “Ford and GM Scrutinized for Alleged Nazi Collaboration” (Michael Dobbs; The Washington Post, July 30, 1998)
18) “Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew” (Richard Breitman)
20) “America’s Nazi Secret: An Insider’s History” (John Loftus)
21) “Hell’s Cartel: I.G. Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine” (Diarmuid Jeffreys)
22) “The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben” (Joseph Borkin)
23) “Patents for Hitler” (Guenter Riemann)
24) “Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and the Swiss Banks” (Mark Aarons & John Loftus)
25) “Inside I.G. Farben: Hoechst During the Third Reich” (Stephen H. Lindner)
26) “All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System” (James S. Martin)
27) “Hitler’s Willing Spin Doctors” (Peter Grose; The New York Times, Feb. 28, 1999)
28) “The Choice is Clear: Africa Must Embrace Nkrumah’s Vision and United” (Milton Allimadi; Black Star News, May 26, 2013)
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KOOOOOOOLA 8 years ago
It is more harmful when history is written with potholes as Philip Kobina has done with his 'can of worms'. I once read one of his articles which raised a lot of questions.
It's like a house without proper foundation. I su ... read full comment
It is more harmful when history is written with potholes as Philip Kobina has done with his 'can of worms'. I once read one of his articles which raised a lot of questions.
It's like a house without proper foundation. I suggest Philip Kobina captions his articles with ' A CAN I HAVE FILLED WITH WORMS'.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear KOOOOOOOLA,
Baidoo is a joke.
In fact the man is not serious at all! I am gradually beginning to understand why some readers have been advising me to ignore him.
Some of these readers have taught or been teach ... read full comment
Dear KOOOOOOOLA,
Baidoo is a joke.
In fact the man is not serious at all! I am gradually beginning to understand why some readers have been advising me to ignore him.
Some of these readers have taught or been teaching these topics for about 30 years in some of America's best universities.
They have also published peer-reviwed papers covering some of these topics. I can now understand them. Baidoo is a big joke! But I will continue to accommodate him when time allow. Nothing he writes on demands any serious reading or research from me. That makes him an easy target for critique.
Anyway have a great week!
Thanks.
KOOOOOOOLA 8 years ago
Philip Kobina should also research from the ITALIAN HISTORIAN, TACITUS CLAUDIUS, his account of British Brutality and Plundering of nations to get rich.
Philip Kobina should also research from the ITALIAN HISTORIAN, TACITUS CLAUDIUS, his account of British Brutality and Plundering of nations to get rich.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
Summon courage to put an end to this twaddling which is undermining your take on capitalism
Summon courage to put an end to this twaddling which is undermining your take on capitalism
Kojo T 8 years ago
Where is this leading and what does it comtribute to developmeny
Where is this leading and what does it comtribute to developmeny
Dr. Otto 8 years ago
Baidoo is now heading the lunatics on Ghanaweb to display stupidity.
Don't or can't you idiotic fools think about the current governance and the economical problems in facing "GhanaToday"?
For how long do you Marons wan ... read full comment
Baidoo is now heading the lunatics on Ghanaweb to display stupidity.
Don't or can't you idiotic fools think about the current governance and the economical problems in facing "GhanaToday"?
For how long do you Marons want to think outside the box? Fools!!!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Kojo T,
I think frustration is getting the better part of Baidoo. His articles are getting bizarre now, always been anyway.
Now he is restoring to the tactic of distorting my work. This is why I have provided exte ... read full comment
Dear Kojo T,
I think frustration is getting the better part of Baidoo. His articles are getting bizarre now, always been anyway.
Now he is restoring to the tactic of distorting my work. This is why I have provided extensive rejoinders to set the record straight.
He can go on with his daydreaming but I will not allow him to lie, fabricate, and conjure anymore bad dreams.
Can't you see when I expose one lie or fabrication by him he comes up comes up with more weird and fabricated material?
Watch out! His next article is going to be about Socialism and Communism marrying each other with Capitalism officiating, with Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Phil Specter, Robin Williams, and Jimi Hendrix served as flower girls in Baidoo's capitalist world!
Oh boy!
Thanks.
Danny 8 years ago
Brainless Kojo T
Brainless Kojo T
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Hello Readers,
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dear Readers,
The historical record is clear on the continuity between the German-orchestrated Namibian (South West Africa) Genocide and the Holocaust. I will first implore all o ... read full comment
Hello Readers,
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dear Readers,
The historical record is clear on the continuity between the German-orchestrated Namibian (South West Africa) Genocide and the Holocaust. I will first implore all of you to read following books (this is merely a short list):
1)"Hitler’s Black Victim’s: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, African and African-Americans During the Nazi Era" (Clarence Lusane)
2)“Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940” (Raffael Scheck)
3)“The Angel of Death Has Descended Violently Upon Them: Concentration Camps and Prisoners-Of-War in Namibia, 1904-08” (Casper W. Erichsen)
4)“Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts” (Parsons & Totten)
5)“Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History” (Dirk Moses; read Dominik Schaller’s essays “From Conquest to Genocide: Colonial Rule in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa” in Moses’ book)
6)“Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus” (Naomi Baumslag)
7)"Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation" (David MacDonald)
8)"The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and The Colonial Roots of Nazism" (Erichsen & Olusoga) (this text deals with the Herero and Namaqua Genocide; readers may also want to read the Whitaker Report (United Nations, 1985)
9)“Words Cannot Be Found: German Colonial Rule in Namibia” (Jeremy Sylvester)
10)"Herero heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923" (Jan-Bart Gewald)
11)“The Killing Trap: Genocide in the 20th Century” (Manus Midlarsky)
12)“Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory” (Rene Lemarchand)
13)“The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing” (Michael Mann)
14)"Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany" (Andrew Zimmerman)
15)"In Colonial Genocide and Reparations Claims in the 21st Century" (Jeremy Sarkin-Hughes)
16)"A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures—Continental Europe and its Empires" (Prem Poddar/David Johnson)
17)"Sterilized By The State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th North America" (Desmond King/Randall Hansen)
18)“Exterminate all the Brutes” (Sven Lindqvist)
19)“The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy” (Edited by Susanne Zantop and Co.)
20)“When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda” (Mahmood Mamdani)
21)“German Colonialism and National Identity” (Edited by Jeurgen Zimmerer & Michael Perrauden)
22)“The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century” (Helmut Smith)
23)“Let Us Die Fighting: the Struggle of the Herero and Nama against German Imperialism (1884-1915)” (Horst Drechsler)
24)“South-West African Under German Rule: 1894-1914” (Helmut Bley)
25)“The Devil’s Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa” (George Steinmetz)
26)“The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany” (Mathew Jefferies)
27)“German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany” (Edited by Mohammad Salama & Volker Langbehn)
28)“Germany’s Genocide of the Herero: Kaiser Wilhelm 11, His General, His Settlers, His Soldiers” (Jeremy Sarkin)
Reader may also want to take a look at the following published papers;
1)"The Nazi Symbiosis: Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich" (Michael H. Kater). Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Vol. 85, No. 3, p. 515-516 (2001).
2)"From Africa to Auschwitz: How German South West Africa Incubated Ideas and Methods Adopted and Developed by the Nazis in Eastern Europe" (Benjamin Madley). European Quarterly. Vol. 35, No. 3, p. 429-464 (July 2005).
The Question is: Has Mr. Baidoo ever heard of the “CONTINUITY THESIS”? We guess not. This is clear from his articles. From all indications, at least, we submit that Mr. Baidoo should have mentioned this concept together with its body of critique. Generally, a number of these references provide insights into the continuity between the European Holocaust and the Namibian Holocaust. They also provide extensive information on Germans, who were involved in the Namibian Holocaust, influential men who later ended up joining the Nazis and lending their eugenic expertise, Namibian Holocaust experiences, etc., to the Nazis.
What is more, the Namibian government, universities and research institutions across the world (Europe, America, Canada, and Australia), and the United Nations have all the records showing what happened and the links as well continuity between the Namibian Holocaust and the European Holocaust. In fact, leading German historians have written about the connections and continuities between the Namibian Holocaust and the European Holocaust. The BBC and other Western media have run documentaries on this question, among other things showing the men who run the Namibian Holocaust and how they later ended up contributing and proving a blueprint for the Nazis. Finally, Prof. Ben Kiernan, one of the world's leading authorities on genocide, has a center at Yale University with all the records (start by reading Kiernan's book "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur."
The facts are all there. Mr. Baidoo is simply ignorant about these historical matters. He needs more reading to catch up. To sum it up, the historical record is more than clear on the continuity between the Namibian Holocaust and the European Holocaust. This goes beyond Mr. Baidoo’s limited horizon! It is a shame how Mr. Baidoo goes about turning my write-ups upside down. We therefore encourage readers to go back and read “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened–Mein Kampf.”
What took him so long to come with this new shameful fabrication? Mr. Baidoo is a shameless caricature! He is taking full advantage of the fact that the editor of Ghanaweb did not give my rejoinder, particularly the first of my Hitler’s Mein Kampf two-part series, the same publicity he gave Mr. Baidoo’s “Hitler’s Mein Kampf” series, to lie about my first rejoinder. As a matter of fact, nothing he says about my article in his part two of “War and Capitalism” was covered by me in “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened–Hitler’s Mein Kampf.”
That said, we believe it is appropriate to give Mr. Baidoo some good education here, one of the many themes we raised in the first Hitler’s Mein Kampf” two-part series. Medley writes in his essay “From Africa to Auschwitz: How German South West Africa Incubated Ideas and Methods Adopted and Developed by the Nazis in Eastern Europe,” already referenced, the following:
“Like Hermann Göring, German army officer Franz Ritter von Epp played a major role in developing and promoting Nazi colonial ideas. However, while Goring’s connection to German South West Africa was second-hand, von Epp spent two years there, participating in the Herero genocide. He acted as a direct human conduit through which German South West African ideas and methods flowed into the highest echelons of the Third Reich. Von Epp employed and influenced future Nazi leaders, played a crucial role in developing the Nazi Party, and was a Third Reich leader until his 1945 capture by the US Army. Arriving in German South West Africa on 1 March 1904, von Epp was in one of the first waves of volunteer soldiers sent to suppress the Herero Uprising.
“Serving as a Company Commander, under von Trotha, von Epp led soldiers in a number of operations against the Herero, including the decisive Battle of the Waterberg and its genocidal aftermath.
“Von Epp was also in the colony during the establishment of the concentration camps and did not leave until 1906. Following military service in World War I, von Epp employed, influenced, and nurtured numerous future Nazi leaders from successive positions of authority. In February 1919, he formed the right-wing Freikorps Epp and led the unit in crushing the revolutionary, socialist Bavarian Räterepublik before briefly installing himself as dictator of Bavaria. Then, from late 1919 to 1928, he commanded the Reichswehr’s new Battalion Epp, based in Munich.
“The list of men employed by von Epp following the First World War reads like a who’s who of early Nazi leadership. Both Rudolf Hess, who later became Nazi Party deputy leader, and Gregor Strasser, who later led the Nazi Party’s left wing, served under von Epp. So did Walther Schultze, who as Nazi National Leader of the Association of University Lecturers removed Jews from German university posts and participated in the Nazi euthanasia program. Ernst Röhm, who founded the SA, or Storm Troopers, served as the general’s aide-de-camp for nine years.
“Von Epp’s influence on the early Nazi party may even explain how Rohm’s SA became the ‘brown shirts’. In 1924, Hitler, Göring, Röhm and other Nazi leaders chose to dress the party’s brown-shirted Storm Troopers in the same colonial Schutztruppe uniform that von Epp had worn in German South West Africa.
“Most importantly, von Epp influenced and nurtured Röhm’s then close friend, Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler. Von Epp employed Hitler first as a paid informer who, immediately following von Epp’s seizure of power in 1919, fingered communist soldiers under von Epp’s command. Later, von Epp employed Hitler as an ‘educator’ charged with instilling nationalist and anti-Bolshevist sentiments in the soldiers of the new Battalion Epp.
“It was while serving von Epp in this capacity that, according to Ian Kershaw, Hitler ‘stumbled across his greatest talent. As Hitler himself put it, he could “speak.’’’
“Von Epp thus helped launch Hitler’s political career and likely steered the future dictator toward right-wing politics; during this period both men joined the forerunner to the Nazi Party, the tiny Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, or German Workers’ Party. Von Epp was a committed Nazi during the movement’s uncertain, early years. In May 1928, he was elected to the Reichstag on the Nazi ticket along with Gottfried Feder, Wilhelm Frick, Joseph Goebbels, and Gregor Strasser. He entered the Reichstag as one of only a dozen Nazi delegates among 500 Reichstag members. As a Nazi leader, von Epp was deeply influenced by his military service in German South West Africa and he, in turn, profoundly influenced Hitler’s colonial policies.
“Once in power, Hitler rewarded von Epp for his loyal work. On 10 April 1933, Hitler appointed von Epp Governor of Bavaria, a position he held for 12 years. In Bavaria, he presided over the construction of Dachau, as well as the murder of virtually all Bavarian Jews and Gypsies. On 5 May 1934, Hitler appointed him Leiter, or head, of the Colonial Policy Office of the Nazi Party, a position from which he helped to plan colonial policies. As Klaus Hildebrand has observed, in1939, Hitler gave von Epp ‘responsibility for preparing and developing future colonial plans and concerns’ Von Epp continued to serve the Third Reich loyally until the very end, dying in US custody on 31 January 1947.
“Like von Epp, anthropologist Eugen Fischer played an important role in developing and realizing Nazi colonial and genocidal ideas. Moreover, Fischer’s personal experiences in German South West Africa shaped how he thought about these issues. However, Fischer’s ideas focused less on colonialism than on racism, and whereas von Epp was indirectly involved in Nazi mass murder, Fischer was intimately involved. In 1908, while Herero and Nama were dying in concentration camps, Fischer arrived in German South West Africa and began a pseudo-scientific study of 310 children. He aimed to gather two kinds of data from each child: physical characteristics, like eye and hair color, and measurements of intelligence. Fischer then compared these two data sets and fabricated correlations between physical traits and intellectual acumen. The children Fischer studied were Basters, members of an Afrikaans-speaking Namibian minority descended from intermarriage among Boers, Britons, Germans, and Khoikhoin.
“His findings, published as DieRehobother Bastards in 1913, had a tremendous impact in Germany. According to Henry Friedlander, ‘This study not only established [Fischer’s reputation] but also influenced all subsequent German racial legislation, including the Nuremberg Laws’. Fischer argued that the offspring of interracial unions are of ‘lesser racial quality’ and that his subjects’ cognitive abilities were inversely proportional to their African physical characteristics. He continued: ‘Without exception, every European people that has absorbed the blood of the inferior races–and that Negro Hottentots, and many others are inferior is something that only dreamers can deny–have paid for this absorption of inferior elements by intellectual and cultural decline’…
We call on Mr. Baidoo to go ahead and read the rest of Benjamin Madley’s essay, check out his extensive bibliography, and come back to tell readers what he found in the essay, including informing his unsuspecting readership the thematic correlations he finds between Madley’s article and our “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened–Hitler’s Mein Kampf 1.” Mr. Baidoo may then want to also petition the editor of Ghanaweb to re-publish the latter essay so that readers will have the opportunity to see his lies by, among other things, reading our piece for themselves and making up their own minds. As probably should be expected of us, we went ahead to re-publish “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened–Hitler’s Mein Kampf 1” again on Modernghana so that Mr. Baidoo never had the chance readers to deceive and to mislead by readers.
And by distorting our work he ended up totally avoiding a discussion of the capitalists who financed Hitler and the Nazis, built and ran some of Hitler’s gas chambers and extermination camps, how capitalist Henry Ford’s newspaper “The Dearborn International” and its serial publication and book “The International Jews” may have influenced the writing of “Mein Kampf” and Nazi politics, how a capitalist corporation produced the poison gas used in the Holocaust, how American capitalist corporations and institutions financed Germany’s eugenics, how capitalist states like Britain and the US knew about what the Nazis were doing to the Jews and others but sat on the information, how the South West African (Namibian) Holocaust preceded the European Holocaust, the role of Wall Street, as well as our bibliography on capitalist collaboration with Hitler and the Nazis. And more.
Mr. Baidoo avoided these complicated questions and instead settled on the trivia: Blackmail and fabrications. This is unfortunate because the references we gave him are based on extensive data from archival and declassified records from all the majors players involved in our discussion.
Some of the references even came from individuals who prosecuted Nazi war criminals (Please go back and take a look at “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened–Hitler’s Mein Kampf 1.” Note: Our references are a fraction of the lists at our disposal). We wish this could be repeated on Ghanaweb. We tried on numerous but without success. We also provided Modernghana readers with references to help them know when and where Mr. Baidoo is lying and distorting facts. We are doing the same here so that Ghanaweb readers will know where and where Mr. Baidoo is lying and distorting facts. So far, we have exposed most of lies and distortions. Other Ghanaweb readers have done similarly, exposing his logical flaws and factual errors. This is good because we cannot continue to allow others to mislead and mis-educate the reading public. It is a shared responsibility to do right by the reading public by providing it quality information. It turns out every time we expose his lies, ignorance, and fabrications Mr. Baidoo comes up with more lies, distortions, fabrications, and insults.
It looks as though he is operating from a standpoint of frustration. Unfortunately this exercise on our part to expose him is not ending any time soon. We strongly believe this time he did not take it lightly when we exposed his lies about Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois. Alas, he had to fabricate another lie about the content of “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened–Hitler’s Mein Kampf 1” just to make up for his perceived and real deficits, whatever they are. As a result, we will continue to post the latter essay in the “comment box” under Mr. Baidoo’s Ghanaweb articles until readers finally come to know what our essay actually says as opposed to his twisted logic and outright fabrication. Granted, how far will this shameless man go to distort, fabricate, and lie about others’ work at the same time as he tells his unsuspecting readership he is a “principled man” and “a Christian”?
Finally, readers may have to read more about the Namibian Holocaust, Lothar von Trotha, Dr. Brofinger, Frantz von Epp, Heinrich Goering (the father of Hermann Goering (Field Marshall of the Luftwaffe), perhaps the most powerful Nazi personality after Hitler), Eugen Fischer (Chancellor of the University of Berlin (he was an important figure in the Namibian Holocaust). Fischer also taught Nazi physicians such as Otmar Vershuer who in turn taught Josef Mengele, “Nazi Angel of Death”), Ernst Rohm, Von Zulow, and so on. But having said that, lying will get him nowhere as far as we are concerned. We shall continue to put him in his place as long as we write for Ghanaweb and other websites where his articles are published. We promise him that for sure!
Thanks.
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Title: "Hitler's Holocaust Blueprint: A New Book Reveals How Kaiser's Germany Used Concentrations In Africa To Advance Their Theories of Racial Supremacy."
Source: Daily Mail (September 23, 2010)
Author: Michael Williams
Now read on:
"But there is an even more direct and sinister link between the rise of Nazis and Namibia. One of the veterans of the genocide was a Bavarian senior lieutenant called Franz Xavier von Epp, who spent his life propagating the notion that the German people needed to expand their territory at the expense of 'lower races'.
"In 1922, by then a general, he recruited the young Adolf Hitler into a Right-wing militia in Munich and introduced the future Fuhrer to the elite who would one day control the Nazis.
"One of them was Von Epp's deputy - Ernst Rohm, founder of the notorious Nazi stormtroopers. Through the connection to Von Epp and other old soldiers of the African colonies, Hitler and Rohm were able to procure a consignment of surplus colonial Schutztruppe uniforms.
"Designed for warfare on the savannah of Africa, the shirts were golden brown. The Nazi thugs who wore them were thenceforth known famously as the Brown Shirts. It's no wonder that in countless pictures and propaganda films, Hitler and Von Epp stand side by side..."
Williams says elsewhere:
"In one of the local concentration camps, at a place called Swakopmund, women were forced to boil the severed heads of their own people, and scrape the flesh, sinews and ligaments off the skull with shards of broken glass. The victims may have been people they had known or even relatives. The skulls were packed into crates and sent off to museums and universities in Germany.
"Most notorious of all was the Shark Island camp physician, Dr Bofinger. He carefully decapitated the bodies of 17 prisoners, including a one-year-old girl. After breaking open the skulls he removed and weighed the brains before placing each head in preserving alcohol and sealing them in tins for export to the University of Berlin.
"There they were used in experiments to prove the similarity between the Nama people and anthropoid apes in a terrible prefiguring of the darkest race experiments of Josef Mengele, the Nazi 'Angel of Death', who similarly sent body parts from Auschwitz back to Berlin.
"Other experiments were conducted on live prisoners. In a spurious bid to determine whether scurvy - an illness caused by poor nutrition - was contagious, Bofinger injected prisoners with arsenic and opium, 'opening up the bodies' after they had died. No wonder it was said that anyone who went into Dr Bofinger's field hospital 'would not come out alive'.
"In 1914, World War I broke out and the following year the South African Army seized the colony which had been such a crucible for evil. Germany's African empire had ended and, after the war, Namibia became a South African mandate, finally achieving independence in 1990.
"BUT GERMANY'S OBSESSION WITH EUGENICS DID NOT END IN 1915. A FEW DECADES LATER, THE PEOPLE AND IDEAS THAT DROVE MERCILESS COLONIAL EXPERIMENT WOULD PLAY A VITAL ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF THE NAZIS..." (our emphasis)
I AM DONE FOR TODAY (there is more to say but let this suffice for now).
Thanks.
Hello Readers,
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dear Readers,
The historical record is clear on the continuity between the German-orchestrated Namibian (South West Africa) Genocide and the Holocaust. I will first implore all of you to read following books (this is merely a short list):
1)"Hitler’s Black Victim’s: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, African and African-Americans During the Nazi Era" (Clarence Lusane)
2)“Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940” (Raffael Scheck)
3)“The Angel of Death Has Descended Violently Upon Them: Concentration Camps and Prisoners-Of-War in Namibia, 1904-08” (Casper W. Erichsen)
4)“Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts” (Parsons & Totten)
5)“Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History” (Dirk Moses; read Dominik Schaller’s essays “From Conquest to Genocide: Colonial Rule in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa” in Moses’ book)
6)“Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus” (Naomi Baumslag)
7)"Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation" (David MacDonald)
8)"The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and The Colonial Roots of Nazism" (Erichsen & Olusoga) (this text deals with the Herero and Namaqua Genocide; readers may also want to read the Whitaker Report (United Nations, 1985)
9)“Words Cannot Be Found: German Colonial Rule in Namibia” (Jeremy Sylvester)
10)"Herero heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923" (Jan-Bart Gewald)
11)“The Killing Trap: Genocide in the 20th Century” (Manus Midlarsky)
12)“Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory” (Rene Lemarchand)
13)“The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing” (Michael Mann)
14)"Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany" (Andrew Zimmerman)
15)"In Colonial Genocide and Reparations Claims in the 21st Century" (Jeremy Sarkin-Hughes)
16)"A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures—Continental Europe and its Empires" (Prem Poddar/David Johnson)
17)"Sterilized By The State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th North America" (Desmond King/Randall Hansen)
18)“Exterminate all the Brutes” (Sven Lindqvist)
19)“The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy” (Edited by Susanne Zantop and Co.)
20)“When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda” (Mahmood Mamdani)
21)“German Colonialism and National Identity” (Edited by Jeurgen Zimmerer & Michael Perrauden)
22)“The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century” (Helmut Smith)
23)“Let Us Die Fighting: the Struggle of the Herero and Nama against German Imperialism (1884-1915)” (Horst Drechsler)
24)“South-West African Under German Rule: 1894-1914” (Helmut Bley)
25)“The Devil’s Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa” (George Steinmetz)
26)“The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany” (Mathew Jefferies)
27)“German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany” (Edited by Mohammad Salama & Volker Langbehn)
28)“Germany’s Genocide of the Herero: Kaiser Wilhelm 11, His General, His Settlers, His Soldiers” (Jeremy Sarkin)
Reader may also want to take a look at the following published papers;
1)"The Nazi Symbiosis: Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich" (Michael H. Kater). Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Vol. 85, No. 3, p. 515-516 (2001).
2)"From Africa to Auschwitz: How German South West Africa Incubated Ideas and Methods Adopted and Developed by the Nazis in Eastern Europe" (Benjamin Madley). European Quarterly. Vol. 35, No. 3, p. 429-464 (July 2005).
The Question is: Has Mr. Baidoo ever heard of the “CONTINUITY THESIS”? We guess not. This is clear from his articles. From all indications, at least, we submit that Mr. Baidoo should have mentioned this concept together with its body of critique. Generally, a number of these references provide insights into the continuity between the European Holocaust and the Namibian Holocaust. They also provide extensive information on Germans, who were involved in the Namibian Holocaust, influential men who later ended up joining the Nazis and lending their eugenic expertise, Namibian Holocaust experiences, etc., to the Nazis.
What is more, the Namibian government, universities and research institutions across the world (Europe, America, Canada, and Australia), and the United Nations have all the records showing what happened and the links as well continuity between the Namibian Holocaust and the European Holocaust. In fact, leading German historians have written about the connections and continuities between the Namibian Holocaust and the European Holocaust. The BBC and other Western media have run documentaries on this question, among other things showing the men who run the Namibian Holocaust and how they later ended up contributing and proving a blueprint for the Nazis. Finally, Prof. Ben Kiernan, one of the world's leading authorities on genocide, has a center at Yale University with all the records (start by reading Kiernan's book "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur."
The facts are all there. Mr. Baidoo is simply ignorant about these historical matters. He needs more reading to catch up. To sum it up, the historical record is more than clear on the continuity between the Namibian Holocaust and the European Holocaust. This goes beyond Mr. Baidoo’s limited horizon! It is a shame how Mr. Baidoo goes about turning my write-ups upside down. We therefore encourage readers to go back and read “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened–Mein Kampf.”
What took him so long to come with this new shameful fabrication? Mr. Baidoo is a shameless caricature! He is taking full advantage of the fact that the editor of Ghanaweb did not give my rejoinder, particularly the first of my Hitler’s Mein Kampf two-part series, the same publicity he gave Mr. Baidoo’s “Hitler’s Mein Kampf” series, to lie about my first rejoinder. As a matter of fact, nothing he says about my article in his part two of “War and Capitalism” was covered by me in “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened–Hitler’s Mein Kampf.”
That said, we believe it is appropriate to give Mr. Baidoo some good education here, one of the many themes we raised in the first Hitler’s Mein Kampf” two-part series. Medley writes in his essay “From Africa to Auschwitz: How German South West Africa Incubated Ideas and Methods Adopted and Developed by the Nazis in Eastern Europe,” already referenced, the following:
“Like Hermann Göring, German army officer Franz Ritter von Epp played a major role in developing and promoting Nazi colonial ideas. However, while Goring’s connection to German South West Africa was second-hand, von Epp spent two years there, participating in the Herero genocide. He acted as a direct human conduit through which German South West African ideas and methods flowed into the highest echelons of the Third Reich. Von Epp employed and influenced future Nazi leaders, played a crucial role in developing the Nazi Party, and was a Third Reich leader until his 1945 capture by the US Army. Arriving in German South West Africa on 1 March 1904, von Epp was in one of the first waves of volunteer soldiers sent to suppress the Herero Uprising.
“Serving as a Company Commander, under von Trotha, von Epp led soldiers in a number of operations against the Herero, including the decisive Battle of the Waterberg and its genocidal aftermath.
“Von Epp was also in the colony during the establishment of the concentration camps and did not leave until 1906. Following military service in World War I, von Epp employed, influenced, and nurtured numerous future Nazi leaders from successive positions of authority. In February 1919, he formed the right-wing Freikorps Epp and led the unit in crushing the revolutionary, socialist Bavarian Räterepublik before briefly installing himself as dictator of Bavaria. Then, from late 1919 to 1928, he commanded the Reichswehr’s new Battalion Epp, based in Munich.
“The list of men employed by von Epp following the First World War reads like a who’s who of early Nazi leadership. Both Rudolf Hess, who later became Nazi Party deputy leader, and Gregor Strasser, who later led the Nazi Party’s left wing, served under von Epp. So did Walther Schultze, who as Nazi National Leader of the Association of University Lecturers removed Jews from German university posts and participated in the Nazi euthanasia program. Ernst Röhm, who founded the SA, or Storm Troopers, served as the general’s aide-de-camp for nine years.
“Von Epp’s influence on the early Nazi party may even explain how Rohm’s SA became the ‘brown shirts’. In 1924, Hitler, Göring, Röhm and other Nazi leaders chose to dress the party’s brown-shirted Storm Troopers in the same colonial Schutztruppe uniform that von Epp had worn in German South West Africa.
“Most importantly, von Epp influenced and nurtured Röhm’s then close friend, Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler. Von Epp employed Hitler first as a paid informer who, immediately following von Epp’s seizure of power in 1919, fingered communist soldiers under von Epp’s command. Later, von Epp employed Hitler as an ‘educator’ charged with instilling nationalist and anti-Bolshevist sentiments in the soldiers of the new Battalion Epp.
“It was while serving von Epp in this capacity that, according to Ian Kershaw, Hitler ‘stumbled across his greatest talent. As Hitler himself put it, he could “speak.’’’
“Von Epp thus helped launch Hitler’s political career and likely steered the future dictator toward right-wing politics; during this period both men joined the forerunner to the Nazi Party, the tiny Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, or German Workers’ Party. Von Epp was a committed Nazi during the movement’s uncertain, early years. In May 1928, he was elected to the Reichstag on the Nazi ticket along with Gottfried Feder, Wilhelm Frick, Joseph Goebbels, and Gregor Strasser. He entered the Reichstag as one of only a dozen Nazi delegates among 500 Reichstag members. As a Nazi leader, von Epp was deeply influenced by his military service in German South West Africa and he, in turn, profoundly influenced Hitler’s colonial policies.
“Once in power, Hitler rewarded von Epp for his loyal work. On 10 April 1933, Hitler appointed von Epp Governor of Bavaria, a position he held for 12 years. In Bavaria, he presided over the construction of Dachau, as well as the murder of virtually all Bavarian Jews and Gypsies. On 5 May 1934, Hitler appointed him Leiter, or head, of the Colonial Policy Office of the Nazi Party, a position from which he helped to plan colonial policies. As Klaus Hildebrand has observed, in1939, Hitler gave von Epp ‘responsibility for preparing and developing future colonial plans and concerns’ Von Epp continued to serve the Third Reich loyally until the very end, dying in US custody on 31 January 1947.
“Like von Epp, anthropologist Eugen Fischer played an important role in developing and realizing Nazi colonial and genocidal ideas. Moreover, Fischer’s personal experiences in German South West Africa shaped how he thought about these issues. However, Fischer’s ideas focused less on colonialism than on racism, and whereas von Epp was indirectly involved in Nazi mass murder, Fischer was intimately involved. In 1908, while Herero and Nama were dying in concentration camps, Fischer arrived in German South West Africa and began a pseudo-scientific study of 310 children. He aimed to gather two kinds of data from each child: physical characteristics, like eye and hair color, and measurements of intelligence. Fischer then compared these two data sets and fabricated correlations between physical traits and intellectual acumen. The children Fischer studied were Basters, members of an Afrikaans-speaking Namibian minority descended from intermarriage among Boers, Britons, Germans, and Khoikhoin.
“His findings, published as DieRehobother Bastards in 1913, had a tremendous impact in Germany. According to Henry Friedlander, ‘This study not only established [Fischer’s reputation] but also influenced all subsequent German racial legislation, including the Nuremberg Laws’. Fischer argued that the offspring of interracial unions are of ‘lesser racial quality’ and that his subjects’ cognitive abilities were inversely proportional to their African physical characteristics. He continued: ‘Without exception, every European people that has absorbed the blood of the inferior races–and that Negro Hottentots, and many others are inferior is something that only dreamers can deny–have paid for this absorption of inferior elements by intellectual and cultural decline’…
We call on Mr. Baidoo to go ahead and read the rest of Benjamin Madley’s essay, check out his extensive bibliography, and come back to tell readers what he found in the essay, including informing his unsuspecting readership the thematic correlations he finds between Madley’s article and our “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened–Hitler’s Mein Kampf 1.” Mr. Baidoo may then want to also petition the editor of Ghanaweb to re-publish the latter essay so that readers will have the opportunity to see his lies by, among other things, reading our piece for themselves and making up their own minds. As probably should be expected of us, we went ahead to re-publish “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened–Hitler’s Mein Kampf 1” again on Modernghana so that Mr. Baidoo never had the chance readers to deceive and to mislead by readers.
And by distorting our work he ended up totally avoiding a discussion of the capitalists who financed Hitler and the Nazis, built and ran some of Hitler’s gas chambers and extermination camps, how capitalist Henry Ford’s newspaper “The Dearborn International” and its serial publication and book “The International Jews” may have influenced the writing of “Mein Kampf” and Nazi politics, how a capitalist corporation produced the poison gas used in the Holocaust, how American capitalist corporations and institutions financed Germany’s eugenics, how capitalist states like Britain and the US knew about what the Nazis were doing to the Jews and others but sat on the information, how the South West African (Namibian) Holocaust preceded the European Holocaust, the role of Wall Street, as well as our bibliography on capitalist collaboration with Hitler and the Nazis. And more.
Mr. Baidoo avoided these complicated questions and instead settled on the trivia: Blackmail and fabrications. This is unfortunate because the references we gave him are based on extensive data from archival and declassified records from all the majors players involved in our discussion.
Some of the references even came from individuals who prosecuted Nazi war criminals (Please go back and take a look at “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened–Hitler’s Mein Kampf 1.” Note: Our references are a fraction of the lists at our disposal). We wish this could be repeated on Ghanaweb. We tried on numerous but without success. We also provided Modernghana readers with references to help them know when and where Mr. Baidoo is lying and distorting facts. We are doing the same here so that Ghanaweb readers will know where and where Mr. Baidoo is lying and distorting facts. So far, we have exposed most of lies and distortions. Other Ghanaweb readers have done similarly, exposing his logical flaws and factual errors. This is good because we cannot continue to allow others to mislead and mis-educate the reading public. It is a shared responsibility to do right by the reading public by providing it quality information. It turns out every time we expose his lies, ignorance, and fabrications Mr. Baidoo comes up with more lies, distortions, fabrications, and insults.
It looks as though he is operating from a standpoint of frustration. Unfortunately this exercise on our part to expose him is not ending any time soon. We strongly believe this time he did not take it lightly when we exposed his lies about Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois. Alas, he had to fabricate another lie about the content of “Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened–Hitler’s Mein Kampf 1” just to make up for his perceived and real deficits, whatever they are. As a result, we will continue to post the latter essay in the “comment box” under Mr. Baidoo’s Ghanaweb articles until readers finally come to know what our essay actually says as opposed to his twisted logic and outright fabrication. Granted, how far will this shameless man go to distort, fabricate, and lie about others’ work at the same time as he tells his unsuspecting readership he is a “principled man” and “a Christian”?
Finally, readers may have to read more about the Namibian Holocaust, Lothar von Trotha, Dr. Brofinger, Frantz von Epp, Heinrich Goering (the father of Hermann Goering (Field Marshall of the Luftwaffe), perhaps the most powerful Nazi personality after Hitler), Eugen Fischer (Chancellor of the University of Berlin (he was an important figure in the Namibian Holocaust). Fischer also taught Nazi physicians such as Otmar Vershuer who in turn taught Josef Mengele, “Nazi Angel of Death”), Ernst Rohm, Von Zulow, and so on. But having said that, lying will get him nowhere as far as we are concerned. We shall continue to put him in his place as long as we write for Ghanaweb and other websites where his articles are published. We promise him that for sure!
Thanks.
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Title: "Hitler's Holocaust Blueprint: A New Book Reveals How Kaiser's Germany Used Concentrations In Africa To Advance Their Theories of Racial Supremacy."
Source: Daily Mail (September 23, 2010)
Author: Michael Williams
Now read on:
"But there is an even more direct and sinister link between the rise of Nazis and Namibia. One of the veterans of the genocide was a Bavarian senior lieutenant called Franz Xavier von Epp, who spent his life propagating the notion that the German people needed to expand their territory at the expense of 'lower races'.
"In 1922, by then a general, he recruited the young Adolf Hitler into a Right-wing militia in Munich and introduced the future Fuhrer to the elite who would one day control the Nazis.
"One of them was Von Epp's deputy - Ernst Rohm, founder of the notorious Nazi stormtroopers. Through the connection to Von Epp and other old soldiers of the African colonies, Hitler and Rohm were able to procure a consignment of surplus colonial Schutztruppe uniforms.
"Designed for warfare on the savannah of Africa, the shirts were golden brown. The Nazi thugs who wore them were thenceforth known famously as the Brown Shirts. It's no wonder that in countless pictures and propaganda films, Hitler and Von Epp stand side by side..."
Williams says elsewhere:
"In one of the local concentration camps, at a place called Swakopmund, women were forced to boil the severed heads of their own people, and scrape the flesh, sinews and ligaments off the skull with shards of broken glass. The victims may have been people they had known or even relatives. The skulls were packed into crates and sent off to museums and universities in Germany.
"Most notorious of all was the Shark Island camp physician, Dr Bofinger. He carefully decapitated the bodies of 17 prisoners, including a one-year-old girl. After breaking open the skulls he removed and weighed the brains before placing each head in preserving alcohol and sealing them in tins for export to the University of Berlin.
"There they were used in experiments to prove the similarity between the Nama people and anthropoid apes in a terrible prefiguring of the darkest race experiments of Josef Mengele, the Nazi 'Angel of Death', who similarly sent body parts from Auschwitz back to Berlin.
"Other experiments were conducted on live prisoners. In a spurious bid to determine whether scurvy - an illness caused by poor nutrition - was contagious, Bofinger injected prisoners with arsenic and opium, 'opening up the bodies' after they had died. No wonder it was said that anyone who went into Dr Bofinger's field hospital 'would not come out alive'.
"In 1914, World War I broke out and the following year the South African Army seized the colony which had been such a crucible for evil. Germany's African empire had ended and, after the war, Namibia became a South African mandate, finally achieving independence in 1990.
"BUT GERMANY'S OBSESSION WITH EUGENICS DID NOT END IN 1915. A FEW DECADES LATER, THE PEOPLE AND IDEAS THAT DROVE MERCILESS COLONIAL EXPERIMENT WOULD PLAY A VITAL ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF THE NAZIS..." (our emphasis)
I AM DONE FOR TODAY (there is more to say but let this suffice for now).
Thanks.
YAW 8 years ago
Freedom as prescribed by Baidoo"s Idol.
Lee Kuan Yew.
“Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Ch ... read full comment
Freedom as prescribed by Baidoo"s Idol.
Lee Kuan Yew.
“Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.”
“If you are a troublemaker... it’s our job to politically destroy you... Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac.”
“We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are
communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don’t do that, the country would be in ruins."
“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think."
Some of the strengths of capitalism is that of,murder,plunder,deceit,subjugation,slavery,war etc.It is fair to say that Mr Baidoo himself,by his own definition,adds to those strengths.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
Hello Yaw, I don't believe in anybody who thinks that a nation can be advanced by trampling on other people's rights. You have to read my articles very carefully; I don't espouse such philosophies. Thank you.
Hello Yaw, I don't believe in anybody who thinks that a nation can be advanced by trampling on other people's rights. You have to read my articles very carefully; I don't espouse such philosophies. Thank you.
amanfo 8 years ago
Dear Sir Baidoo, I think judging from your write ups recently, you are suggesting socialism breeds war whilst capitalism does the otherwise.Granted. Can you give any justification for the invasions of both Afghanistan, Iraq a ... read full comment
Dear Sir Baidoo, I think judging from your write ups recently, you are suggesting socialism breeds war whilst capitalism does the otherwise.Granted. Can you give any justification for the invasions of both Afghanistan, Iraq and other unnecessary sanctions placed on other countries that do not tolerate wicked profiteering by America and her stooges with those bogus excuses? What about the invasion and murder of Mummur Ghadafi by NATO and its allies The citizens in these countries are more vulnerable than ever when these capitalist pretended to be saving them from dictators. Now, were those actions authorized by socialists or capitalists. I implore you listen or read the last statement of Kofi Annan when he was exiting the UN to the USA concerning Iraq and you will forever regret condemning socialism or mixed economy philosophy. Thank you
PhiIip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
Hello Mr Amanfo, l thank you very much for your courtesy, but just Philip or Mr Baidoo will do. Perhaps, you can even drop the Mr. I very much appreciate searching questions. However, I do not have enough time to answer al ... read full comment
Hello Mr Amanfo, l thank you very much for your courtesy, but just Philip or Mr Baidoo will do. Perhaps, you can even drop the Mr. I very much appreciate searching questions. However, I do not have enough time to answer all your concerns. On the other hand, I will take Afghanistan and offer a short answer. Do you remember when the World Trade Centre went down the Americans requested the Afghans to give up Osama? Thank you.
KKO 8 years ago
"Russia dismantled whole industries and shipped them back home. The Nazis acted like blood hounds; they also took apart and transported whole factories back to their realm. On the other hand, America, the so called war monger ... read full comment
"Russia dismantled whole industries and shipped them back home. The Nazis acted like blood hounds; they also took apart and transported whole factories back to their realm. On the other hand, America, the so called war monger, provided equipment and food to its allies including Russia. For me anybody who supports a totalitarian regime can absolutely not think straight. A system of government where everyone is expendable if you stand in the way of their perceived progressive ideas belongs in the Stone Age. In reality, I shouldn’t be arguing with this monster."
Well said, namesake. I sued to read Kwarteng's articles for purely academic reasons, but the day he defended the obnoxious PDA, I stopped reading anything he writes, except when he tries to respond to to my posts.
Thanks for the in-depth education. We now need to turn our attention to the evil that has turned our dear country Ghana, into "hell on earth," according to Dr SAS!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear KOO-aka-namesake-Baidoo,
There a wide divergence between SAS and Baidoo on what development, the Nordic Model, capitalism, socialism, and the like actually mean! In case you have not read SAS on this, this is what he ... read full comment
Dear KOO-aka-namesake-Baidoo,
There a wide divergence between SAS and Baidoo on what development, the Nordic Model, capitalism, socialism, and the like actually mean! In case you have not read SAS on this, this is what he [SAS] wrote on one of my articles critiquing Baidoo:
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"Impressive riposte by Prof. Francis Kwarteng.......
I personally think that a broad condemnation of the socialist ideology, no matter from what quarters, is per se simplistic. What is also simplistic is its wholesale imbibation. The better approach is the integration of those ideologies that best suit our circumstances, and I think that is what Nkrumah tried to do. Unfortunately, Nkrumah's socialist principles were mostly couched to perpetuate his personal ambitions and despotic posture, hence his life presidency, one party state and power to imprison his political opponents without trial....
What the so-called Nordic countries have done with socialist ideas serve as good examples of what socialism can do when undergirded by true democratic principles."
SAS wrote this under the title "Integration of Ideologies is Key." See "Re: Nkrumah's Socialism, Full of Ideas, But It Doesn't Work" (Ghanaweb, December 30, 2014).
Baidoo should come and read this. I should have also added that Mobutu, Augusto Pinochet, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Teodoro Nguema, Lee Kuan Yew, and several others were die-hard capitalists and still ruled under one-party states.
Thanks.
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Let me also re-iterate YAW's here (Indeed Baidoo's articles are a waste (YAW correctly calls them WASTREL):
Freedom as prescribed by Baidoo"s Idol.
Lee Kuan Yew.
“Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.”
“If you are a troublemaker... it’s our job to politically destroy you... Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac.”
“We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are
communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don’t do that, the country would be in ruins."
“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think."
Some of the strengths of capitalism is that of,murder,plunder,deceit,subjugation,slavery,war etc.It is fair to say that Mr Baidoo himself,by his own definition,adds to those strengths.
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Prof Lungu 8 years ago
A ha!
READ: "...(A) broad condemnation of the socialist ideology, no matter from what quarters, is per se simplistic. What is also simplistic is its wholesale imbibation. The better approach is the integration of those ide ... read full comment
A ha!
READ: "...(A) broad condemnation of the socialist ideology, no matter from what quarters, is per se simplistic. What is also simplistic is its wholesale imbibation. The better approach is the integration of those ideologies that best suit our circumstances, and I think that is what Nkrumah tried to do...SAS wrote this under the title "Integration of Ideologies is Key." See "Re: Nkrumah's Socialism, Full of Ideas, But It Doesn't Work" (Ghanaweb, December 30, 2014)..."
WE SAY: What else can/must we add?
What a joke of a life, Mr. Phillip Kobina Baidoo!
Amanfo 8 years ago
Mr KKO, PDA in practise was a system put in place to check the separatist group from stepping over their bounds. A young country like Ghana after independence needed much developments and cohesion amongst her citizens and so ... read full comment
Mr KKO, PDA in practise was a system put in place to check the separatist group from stepping over their bounds. A young country like Ghana after independence needed much developments and cohesion amongst her citizens and so there shouldn't be any room for people who doesn't appreciate the importance of the early on stated necessities. Opposing every progressive move made by the Nkrumah's government without alternative ideas was very weird and to the extent of killing the man simply because he was perceived as a stranger wasn't the best. Any leader who feels his life is being threatened for no wrong must find protection from the law and that was what exactly happened. Don't forget there are also disguise acts like PDA in every country in this 21st century. Thank you
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Amanfo,
The PDA was the best thing that ever happened to Ghana and Africa.
Thanks for pumping some wisdom and intelligence into KKO's thick skull.
Have a great week.
Thanks.
Dear Amanfo,
The PDA was the best thing that ever happened to Ghana and Africa.
Thanks for pumping some wisdom and intelligence into KKO's thick skull.
Dear Readers,
Baidoo's first paragraph has no substance and is aimed at seeking sympathy.
But I will not allow him to distort my work. In that case I am reproducing it here for readers to take a second look at it and m ...
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It is more harmful when history is written with potholes as Philip Kobina has done with his 'can of worms'. I once read one of his articles which raised a lot of questions.
It's like a house without proper foundation. I su ...
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Dear KOOOOOOOLA,
Baidoo is a joke.
In fact the man is not serious at all! I am gradually beginning to understand why some readers have been advising me to ignore him.
Some of these readers have taught or been teach ...
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Philip Kobina should also research from the ITALIAN HISTORIAN, TACITUS CLAUDIUS, his account of British Brutality and Plundering of nations to get rich.
Summon courage to put an end to this twaddling which is undermining your take on capitalism
Where is this leading and what does it comtribute to developmeny
Baidoo is now heading the lunatics on Ghanaweb to display stupidity.
Don't or can't you idiotic fools think about the current governance and the economical problems in facing "GhanaToday"?
For how long do you Marons wan ...
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Dear Kojo T,
I think frustration is getting the better part of Baidoo. His articles are getting bizarre now, always been anyway.
Now he is restoring to the tactic of distorting my work. This is why I have provided exte ...
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Brainless Kojo T
Hello Readers,
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dear Readers,
The historical record is clear on the continuity between the German-orchestrated Namibian (South West Africa) Genocide and the Holocaust. I will first implore all o ...
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Freedom as prescribed by Baidoo"s Idol.
Lee Kuan Yew.
“Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Ch ...
read full comment
Hello Yaw, I don't believe in anybody who thinks that a nation can be advanced by trampling on other people's rights. You have to read my articles very carefully; I don't espouse such philosophies. Thank you.
Dear Sir Baidoo, I think judging from your write ups recently, you are suggesting socialism breeds war whilst capitalism does the otherwise.Granted. Can you give any justification for the invasions of both Afghanistan, Iraq a ...
read full comment
Hello Mr Amanfo, l thank you very much for your courtesy, but just Philip or Mr Baidoo will do. Perhaps, you can even drop the Mr. I very much appreciate searching questions. However, I do not have enough time to answer al ...
read full comment
"Russia dismantled whole industries and shipped them back home. The Nazis acted like blood hounds; they also took apart and transported whole factories back to their realm. On the other hand, America, the so called war monger ...
read full comment
Dear KOO-aka-namesake-Baidoo,
There a wide divergence between SAS and Baidoo on what development, the Nordic Model, capitalism, socialism, and the like actually mean! In case you have not read SAS on this, this is what he ...
read full comment
A ha!
READ: "...(A) broad condemnation of the socialist ideology, no matter from what quarters, is per se simplistic. What is also simplistic is its wholesale imbibation. The better approach is the integration of those ide ...
read full comment
Mr KKO, PDA in practise was a system put in place to check the separatist group from stepping over their bounds. A young country like Ghana after independence needed much developments and cohesion amongst her citizens and so ...
read full comment
Dear Amanfo,
The PDA was the best thing that ever happened to Ghana and Africa.
Thanks for pumping some wisdom and intelligence into KKO's thick skull.
Have a great week.
Thanks.