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In my last essay, I discussed my distaste for spergery about the Second World War. As I was writing it, there’s one argument that I thought to address but then didn’t for reasons of narrative flow. But on second thought, I believe this argument deserves its own piece, because it is relevant to events that are unfolding across the world.

The key to understanding Nazi fetishism is to know that it is a kind of fandom. You cannot understand the Nazi fetishist if you try to examine him through an ideological lens. They are like fans of Lord of the Rings or Star Wars: They have all these cool, badass characters and loads of esoteric lore to sperg out on (“You won’t believe the indignities the German people had to suffer when the French occupied the Ruhr valley!”). They’ll quote things their favorite Nazi said as if they are quoting a line from their favorite movies: “Gradually, I began to hate them!” and “The X is immunized against all dangers.” They’re like Trekkies. It’s all very fanboyish.

I don’t begrudge a man his simple pleasures, but I do resent it when people try to shoehorn their hobby into their activism, or worse, try to turn the avowal of their hobby into some kind of litmus test for pro-white activism, or worse, accusing you of being a cuck if you are not openly pro-Hitler. Most people who engage in these things use anonymous accounts, and therefore have nothing to lose by being openly pro-Hitler. But there some who will say that you are not truly pro-white if you are not constantly singing the praises of Hitler in public. It’s like if I tried to combine my love of classic movies with white Nationalism and accused others of not being pro-white if they don’t think Marlene Dietrich was a superior actress to Greta Garbo (which is true, by the way).

There is an argument that I frequently hear Nazi fetishists make, however, which holds that not only is talking about Nazis all the time strategic, but that it is in fact a necessary prerequisite to saving the white race. The argument goes that the Second World War and the Holocaust form the founding mythos of the post-war liberal order. The fable of Hitler and the evil Nazis is integral to the neoliberal state religion that is dominant across the West. Nazi = Bad, and if you oppose white genocide, you are a Nazi — and therefore Bad. If anyone comes around try to stop the decay, he’s Hitler — and Bad. As such, we cannot defeat the liberals until we destroy the idea that Nazi = Bad. If most people stopped thinking that Nazis are bad, it would render ZOG’s guilt-tripping weapons powerless, and the whole neoliberal paradigm that is built atop those lies will come crumbling down. The white race therefore cannot survive without doing this, and thus it is absolutely necessary that we ramble on about Hitler 24/7.

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Now, I really don’t care what anyone thinks on the matter of Hitler. I’m not here to argue that Hitler was a bad guy. My objections to Nazi spergery are mostly strategic. It’s just not a hill worth dying on.

For one, Second World War revisionism is long a conversation. You can explain the gist of race realism in about ten minutes to a newcomer, but it takes quite a bit longer to explain that Hitler was really the good guy. People have made ten-hour-long videos going through and debunking every little piece of the mainstream narrative about the war. So, unless you have a captive audience for most of the day in which you can lay everything out and explain why Hitler and the Nazis were not in fact evil, nothing can be gained from bringing up the war or the Holocaust in conversation with newcomers.

Secondly, I don’t think our enemies invoke the war and the Holocaust as much as people say — certainly not as often as Nazi fetishists talk about them. Sure, they do it sometimes, but honestly, I think y’all just like talking about Nazis.

Third, the power of the Holocaust mythos appears to be dying on its own from natural causes, anyway. A year ago, the argument that the Second World War is the founding myth of the post-war order seemed plausible, but after the events of October 7, we’ve seen Jews and Zionists play the Holocaust card repeatedly in the most cynical ways — but to no avail. It’s gotten to the point where even Leftists, who fervently believe in the mainstream Holocaust narrative about six million bars of soap, will roll their eyes at their insincere invocation of the Holocaust card and reply, “The fact of the Holocaust does not give Israel the right to commit human rights atrocities.” They feel no need to exonerate Hitler in order to stand up to Zionist power.

Some Leftists even take it a step further and say that the Holocaust makes what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza worse, because having been the victims of racial oppression themselves, they should be more sensitive to the victimization of others. The Jews can’t claim to not know what being racially victimized feels like, so that actually gives them a greater moral responsibility than if the Holocaust hadn’t happened.

Even more curious is that some Jews have actually been downplaying the severity of the Holocaust in order to play up the wickedness of the October 7 attack. In a discussion with Candace Owens, Michael Barclay, a prominent American rabbi, described October 7 as “the worst event in recorded history.” There’s also a Zionist talking point floating around which contends that Hamas is more evil than the Nazis, because the Nazis at least had enough shame to try to cover up their crimes, whereas Hamas is unapologetically genocidal. So Jews themselves are now saying that the Holocaust was not the worst event ever anymore!

Some of this may have been the result of the dissident Right’s efforts, but I think much of it is simply the passing of time. I’m part of Generation X, and almost everyone in my generation had a grandparent who took part in the Second World War in some capacity. There were a few occasions throughout my youth when veterans of the war came to my school to discuss their wartime adventures. Saving Private Ryan had a big impact on my generation, as it showed us that our grandparents went through horrible things such as were depicted in the film — or at least could have. My own grandfather lucked out and got a cushy job guarding a weather station in North Africa, but he could have ended up on the beaches of Normandy had the winds of fortune blown in a different direction. It used to bum me out that my grandfather never took part in any of the cool battles, but now that I am older, I am proud that my grandpa took no part in the bloodshed. But I digress.

My point is that even half a century after the end of the Second World War, my generation still felt a deep connection to it through our elders. The average teenager today has probably never met a Second World War vet. If his grandparents fought in any war, it was most likely Vietnam or the Gulf War. The Second World War is as distant to someone in high school today as the First was to me when I was in high school — and it felt like forever. Talking about the Holocaust to today’s kids would be akin to what discussing zeppelin raids and mustard gas attacks with me as a teenager would have been like. Cool story, bro, but it doesn’t hit me on a gut level because, as the saying goes, “the past is a foreign country” — and the world which fought that war was like an alien planet to me, compared to the world I lived in.

Of course, because of the massive Overton window shift of late, there will be more Second World War revisionism floating around. There has certainly been an uptick in Holocaust revisionism and Nazi apologetics on Twitter/X, including on some big accounts, such as that of Jake Shields with 650,000 followers. Whether these new converts to revisionism will take their Second World War spergery to the levels of those Alt Right spergs who learned German just so that they could read Mein Kampf in the original, I don’t know. But going forward, those who do so will be flogging a dead horse.