Re: Re Protocols of the Elders of Zion

[Heiko Lehmann <hklehmann...>]

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Von: eliott kahn <elkahn (at) JTSA(dot)EDU>
An: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. März 2000 16:36
Betreff: RE: Re Protocols of the Elders of Zion


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> Ist das richtig? Vielleicht unsere Deutsche Musikanten kann ueber dieser
> Gegenstand reden.
>
There are, as usual, several thruths. There were neo-nazi activities in the
G.D.R., but most of them were more of a statement of opposition towards East
German officials (who considered themselves as anti-fascist leaders of an
anti-fascist German state) than a conscious switch to fascist and nazi
ideology. There were no structures for neo-nazi movements. In 1990 these
structures were put on East Germany by West German neo-nazi groups; a
leading role was played by neo-nazi groups around Michael Kuehnen (who died
of aids a few years later). The shut-down of a large part of the East German
industry and resulting unemployment in fact brought a stream of mostly young
people into neo-nazi and fascist organisations, but we must also observe a
general move to the right of German society. If East Germans were the tool,
West Germans brought the know-how: when East German neo-nazis destroyed and
burnt down a dormitory building inhabited mostly by Vietnamese workers in
Rostock-Lichtenhagen in 1993, the whole action was coordinated from a nearby
parking lot, and the particular car had a Hamburg licence plate. So
it looks like as if the neo-nazis were the first Germans who cooperated
after the wall came down. Germany is now facing a right-wing terrorist
danger, as well as Canada and the US do, and this threat is very well
organized.

On the Protocols: I don´t know what to say. It´s so ridiculous that you
wouldn´t expect anybody not to laugh at them, but given the huge influence
they had on both Hitler and Stalin (and those guys had power), they
shouldn´t be published. But who would care? You can get them from the
internet in any language. Education in fact seems to be the only answer, and
it´s as good as it is illusionary. There´s a tricky thing in the Protocols
which makes it difficult to argue against: whatever you say, the other side
can always claim that it´s part of the "plan" to make you not believing the
"truth", and it seems to work. It´s always difficult to argue against a
mythos, how to do this should be a major task to defuse the book, and it
would also solve the question of how to educate young people: kids don´t get
Norman Cohn or Léon Poliakov, but this is the age were you can still work on
the reception of myths, or even try a demystification.

Heiko Lehmann.




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