Matty Burnhart, Knitted News02.05.22 11:44 A. Bayer Tishpev
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The remarks of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tonight about Hitler’s “Judaism” shocked many. Where does this argument come from? Why did Lavrov use it? And is this the first time?
A rumor that has been around since the 1930s
Dr. Robert Rosette, a senior historian at the International Institute for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, explains that the myth in question is not new at all, and has not the slightest bit of truth in it. “This is a rumor that has been around since the 1930s. Check then and after, it’s unfounded. There was no Jewish connection, know it’s just a rumor. “All the serious biographies that were written afterwards understood that this was a rumor.”
“Originally the idea that Hitler was a Jew came precisely to delegitimize Hitler, and I do not think they used that in an antisemitic passage,” says Rosette.
Interested in harnessing the country for war
But today he emphasizes, the purpose of Lavrov’s statements was to strengthen the justification for the war in Ukraine, which is basically based on the arguments that there is a “Nazification” of Ukraine. “Lavrov of course wanted to say that Ukraine is Nazi because all consciousness in Russia is based on the war against the Nazis. After all, Ukraine’s greatest enemy in World War II was the Nazis. So if you want to present Ukraine as a great enemy, then present them as Nazis. “It should be shown that they are” Nazis. “Therefore, it was important for them to prove that Zalansky is anti-Semitic and Nazi even though he is Jewish.”
“Of course, we know there were Jews who were antisemitic throughout history, but that’s not true of Zalanski.”
As you may recall, in an interview with Italian television tonight, Brov continued to spread the Russian claim that there was a “Nazification” in Ukraine. When asked about the Jewishness of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zalansky, he replied to Rubov: “So what if Zalansky is a Jew? Hitler also had Jewish origins. The greatest anti-Semites are Jews.” He went on to claim that the Ukrainian government had become an instrument of the extremist Nazis and of the US government.
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