Memento

[matrixmann]

Deutschland - Polen.
Beginn des zweiten Weltkrieges.

Germany - Poland.
Beginning of World War II.

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Re: From a NYT book review

[matrixmann]

Take another example. Stepan Bandera (Степан Бандера), leading and famous nationalist in the Ukraine, not to say part-time collaborator to Third Reich Germany, fled to Munich and died there in 1959 by assassination.
Having hidden under a different name in the city, even though he was buried by his real name on a graveyard in Munich.
Another high Ukrainian nationalist named Jaroslaw Stezko (Ярослав Стецько) and several other collaborators to Germany in WWII also gathered in Munich, parts of them even landed in the camps for the Displaced People.
Stezko becomes important in this matter because Ukrainian president Yushchenko (Ющенко) (from 2005 - 2010) made them put a memorial plaque with a sentence on the wall of the house in Zeppelinstraße 67 in Munich where Stezko and his wife practiced their ideological work after the end of the war. He died in 1986 by natural means and lead his work until his death. (His wife lived until 2003 and continued their work, fully involved into their ideology.)

Re: From a NYT book review

[animaltime.livejournal.com]

Wow! So, there was a link between Ukrainian nationalists and the Third Reich? I didn't know that.

Re: From a NYT book review

[matrixmann]

The Third Reich had many collaborators all over Europe. Sometimes they were their friends, sometimes these had their own goals and their mind-set only bore a great resemblance to that of Germany. For the Ukrainian case it seems to be so as Bandera even spend time in a concentration camp (went reading for that).

Once I saw a historical map in a book, which showed the greatest extent that the Third Reich once could achieve.
Let's say it that way: There is a reason why they still call Tbilisi (capital of Georgia) Tiflis here instead. It once has seen more than a German Schäferhund.
Including they had partners on the Balkan Peninsula, in Greece, Romania, Hungary...

Re: From a NYT book review

[animaltime.livejournal.com]

I know that Greece is seeing a reemergence of Nazi-sympathizers with Golden Dawn and that there were all kinds of racist, super-violent dictators and regimes within the Balkans, but with varying agendas and prejudices. Hitler, then, wasn't unique for his racism, but for the scope of his success.

Re: From a NYT book review

[matrixmann]

That those movements exist all over Europe and further, all united by the same symbols and a corresponding belief, probably it can be seen as a following that the Third Reich once reached the extent of its sphere of influence that it developed.
Local prejudices it won't have changed, but it will have added power to it. If someone came upon the idea to erase a certain group of humans, majority of society would tell him he's nuts - but as it became culture for a certain amount of time in a wide range of areas, it became common thouhght. It stripped the idea off its illogicality.