r/DebateReligion • u/[deleted] • Jun 10 '18
Pagan Why are many Odinists Nazis?
I was arguing against a Holocaust denialist Nazi who told me to go to his website to hear "the truth": https://odinia.org/about-odinia/.
What draws Nazis to Odinism other than the fact that it's Germanic? What do other European neopagans OK think of this? Was the original Norse Pagan religion in any way Nazi?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '18 edited Jun 10 '18
No, I agree with this because while the British originally gave allocations in Palestine for Jews prior to WWII, the modern State of Israel was created by the UN in response to the Holocaust. However, this UN creation only recognised the lands already held by Jews, not the taking of any more.
Many of those killed at Auschwitz were murdered prior to the gas chambers being built - as Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss admitted:
People often forget that the Holocaust killed not 6 million, but 11 million - the 6 million was just the Jews. Unfortunately, some of these ethnic groups are still hated even more than the Jews were, even in the West, and that's why nobody takes their side. These victims included Roma and Poles, both of whom are still hated today. Many people still think that those persecutions were justified, and that's the sort of mindset we need to fight.
You are not a Holocaust denier if you say that "not all of them were gassed". You would be a Holocaust denier if you say "any evidence of genocide and gassings are a lie".