Why this site is important

I have to laugh at the sort of people in Combat 18, the National Front and the British National Party sometimes, because they are just so illogical. But really they are no laughing matter.

These people have the right to their political beliefs. I don't want to silence them. They would like to silence me and those like me, though. That is because we see through their lies.

I thought I'd better include a history section here. This is what happened in Europe last time people who believed in racial superiority came to power.

In the twelve and a half years between 1933 and 1945, there were some of the worst violations of human rights in history. It is a period in history that has always interested me because my (Jewish) grandparents actually lived through it. They were lucky, in many ways. They were also very young, but don't forget that well over a million of those who were murdered in the holocaust were children.

At the start of 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. By the end of that year, Germany had changed so quickly to a state where human rights violations were accepted as normal.

In that year alone:
- Hitler's troops instigated rioting against Jewish communities
- Dachau, the first of many Nazi death camps, opened.
- The Enabling Act was passed by the German Parliament, giving Hitler dictatorial powers, making him effectively above the law.
- A boycott on Jewish shops was enforced by Hitler's storm troupers.
- Jewish school and university students were denied the right to education.
- Most Jewish teachers, judges and civil servants were sacked, simply for being Jewish.
- A decree was issued defining non-Aryan races. Anyone with a "non-Aryan (especially Jewish)" parent or even grandparent was defined as non-Aryan.
- The police became enforcers of the Nazi state and the Gestapo was formed.
- Books opposing the Nazis and/or written by Jews were burned.
- The Nazi Party was declared the only party in Germany.
- Jews were banned from participating in the arts and serving as newspaper editors.
- Sentence to death camps was extended to "habitual and dangerous criminals," including the homeless, alcoholics, beggars, the unemployed and gay men.

Many of the victims of the holocaust were children.

 

Enforcing the boycott. The sign (translated) reads "No decent German shops here."

The following year, the Jews in Germany lost the right to health insurance. 1934 also say the infamous night of the long knives during which several hundred of the Nazis' political opponents were murdered. Hindenburg, the president who had appointed Hitler, died that year and "Der Fuhrer" became the sole political and military leader in the country.

A year later, the Law For Protection of German Blood and German Honour was passed (Net Nazi Kevin Watmough has named his website after it). This basically excluded Jewish citizens from business and stripped them of their political rights, including the right to vote. All Jewish public employees were then sacked, including, for the first time, Jewish veterans of the first world war, who had risked their lives for their country.

Jews were forbidden to have sexual relationships with Aryans. Segregation was introduced, with Jewish children even being banned from using the same playgrounds as Aryan kids.

A few years later, systematic takeover of Jewish property began, and in 1938, Jewish communities were officially stripped of their civil rights. The nazis burned out the synagogue in Munich. The arrest of all Jews with a criminal record (even for traffic offences) was ordered, and about 1500 people were committed to death camps.

What did the rest of the world make of all this? An international conference was held in France, involving both the UK and the USA, to discuss the problem of Jewish refugees. The decision was, effectively, that they were not legitimate asylum seekers.

All Jewish doctors and lawyers were struck off the register, followed by dentists, vets and chemists. Compulsory identity cards for Jews were introduced. The Neurenburg synagogue was destroyed. By the end of 1939, Jews in Germany and (now occupied) Austria had lost their driving licenses and passports and had their freedom of movement severely restricted. Destruction of synagogues and Jewish businesses had become commonplace. A law was passed decreeing that any such damage had to be paid for by the victims.

The rest of the world stood by and watched this happen. It wasn't until September 3 the following year that Germany's attack on Poland prompted England and France to declare war.

That month, curfews were introduced for Jews and it became illegal for them to have radios. The following month, the Nazis started a policy of "euthanasia": sick and disabled people were murdered by gas poisoning or lethal injection.

As the Nazis' power spread across Europe, so did the persecution of the Jewish population and other minorities. Jews in Romania were massacred. The remainder were condemned to forced labour, basically becoming latter-day slaves.

In 1941, the "Final Solution" began. The objective: the eradication of the Jewish race. Gassing began at Auschwitz that year.

The rest is pretty well known. Wholesale murder of Jewish people. Proposed sterilization of all non-Aryans. A total disregard for life.

Combat 18 openly support Hitler's policies.

STILL THINK IT'S FUNNY, DO YOU, KEV?

Yeh, you probably do. That's the saddest part.

Sign of the times: it reads "Jews are not welcome here."

A burnt-out synagogue.

 

Mass execution.

Combat 18's Kevin Watmough, webmaster of Redwatch.org