The Hitler Affliction

[prolefood]

Being both German and American can leave one searching for an identity. At least this has been true in my case.

I was infatuated with history at a young age. It did not take me long, once I entered into a more critical and seasoned study of history, to realize that American history tended to be viewed in a sophomoric, almost naive manner. German

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[coldjwplay]

Surely the British have a better version: Nazis were evil, the British won the war single-handed (that always amused me, apologies to my British pals)I think that the only country to stand alone against the Nazis is the only one that gets to claim it won the war single-handed, thankyouverymuch. We cannot know what would have happened had the Nazis not invaded the Soviet Union or had Japan not bombed Pearl Harbour; we do know that if the UK had surrendered in 1940 or 1941 that the war would have been over and lost, because there were no other combatants left to continue it. The UK is the only nation that can say that its defeat was the only thing standing directly in the way of the loss of the second world war; the Soviet Union has the second-best claim on that score. Anyway, you're a Kraut: you don't get to tell us who gave your arses the biggest kicking!

Anyway, all that aside, isn't your identity as a working man more important than your "identity" as a German or an American?

[prolefood]

On the contrary, I would think that being a kraut would give me the greatest say in who kicked whose arse! :) It matters not, as the United States was the clear victor.

You are right of course, national identity is not important in the grand scheme of things. Class identity, and God help us proletarian identity of itself, is far more important.

I suppose I was alluding to that in my paragraph on all the other nations that were involved directly in the holocaust. I could have also included the nations that were indirectly involved.

In fact, that lack of a national identity, is one of the primary reasons I can relate to Marxism beyond the theoretical and to a more practical view of socialism. The concept of nation, to me, is one bourgeoisie notion I have little trouble discarding.