‘Just a Speck of Bird Poop,’ ‘A Detail of History’

[Valin]

National Review

Jay Nordlinger

June 4, 2018

In Germany, the AfD is the literal alt-Right, the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany). Its co-leader, Alexander Gauland, spoke to its youth wing on Saturday. He said something interesting about Germany and the Third Reich: “We have a glorious history and it, dear friends, lasted longer than those blasted twelve years. Hitler and the Nazis are just a speck of bird poop in more than 1,000 years of successful German history.”

According to a report, he said this “to applause” (naturally).

Do you applaud it? It’s true that the Nazis’ rule was brief — the flash of an eye. But, in that time, they started a world war (with their Soviet partner) and murdered two-thirds of European Jewry. Also, as David Pryce-Jones remarked yesterday, they turned Germany into a totalitarian state.

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The AfD man may be a perfectly good Joe, or Fritz, and he may have meant his remark innocently. But, frankly, it reminded me of Jean-Marie Le Pen — who spoke of the Holocaust as “a detail of history.” (Mark Helprin borrows this phrase for the ending of his stunning recent novel, Paris in the Present Tense.)

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One task for this day: Try not to let them minimize the Third Reich and the Holocaust.

[nickydog]

Hmmm.  There must be someone on this site who could think of an alternative to "just a speck of bird poop."

[Valin]

4 hours ago, nickydog said:

Hmmm.  There must be someone on this site who could think of an alternative to "just a speck of bird poop."

 

Give it a shot.

 

Here's the thing....The European Right, is not the same as The American Right. Too many on our side are ready...eager to embrace the The European Right.