--- On Sat, 11/14/09, Marshall Mendonza <[email protected]> wrote: > > Frederick makes a valid point. >
This is incredible! Does it require a special alliance of minds or an identification with a certain shared ideology to believe what Frederick Noronha claimed and what has been written in the rest of the post appended below have any resemblance to each other? I am quite confident that most people would have no problem in recognizing that Frederick's point was completely different, even if you grant that for some strange reason Marshall believes that Nazism had nothing to do with the "expansionism of Germany". Here are the points that Noronha made: 1. That the standard explanation for Britain and its allies to enter the second world war as a "fight against Nazism" and "what not", is not a historical fact, but merely "rhetoric". 2. That the real explanation according to Noronha seemed "to be a ruthless scramble for colonies between a Britain that had an unfair share at that time and a Germany that felt badly left out (despite its technological and scientific prowess). And a violent struggle for economic clout in a changing world" In other words, Noronha is implying that Britain and the other allied countries were almost as responsible for the violence as Germany, and that the war was simply a competition between some ruthless countries for colonial domination of the world. This is clearly a different version of history than can be found in all the textbooks. Augusto seems to agree with this revised version because of some nuances found in a novel relating to the diverse views held in India regarding Hitler and the Nazis, including the affinity towards them by people like Subhash Chandra Bose. This is really confusing to me because all this while I thought Noronha, Augusto and Marshall made it a point to mention that one of the reasons RSS was evil was because of its support of Hitler and Nazism. I would really like to know when things become black and white, and when they are nuanced for them. Cheers, Santosh Marshall Mendonza <[email protected]> wrote: > >It was the expansionism of Germany which was > the main cause of WWII. Germany under Hitler invaded > Poland, Austria, Denmark,Norway, Netherlands, Belgium,part of >France,eastern > Europe and were > on the borders of Russia. Japan joined hands with Germany > and invaded China, > Korea and Burma. Italy under Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, > France, parts of > Africa. The holocaust was a separate issue and was made a > pretext by > Hitler to mobilise the german people against an imaginary > enemy. > > Regards, > > Marshall >
