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Nazi analogies

Nazi analogies or Nazi comparisons are any comparisons or parallels which are related to Nazism or Nazi Germany, which often reference Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, the SS, or the Holocaust.[1] Despite criticism, such comparisons have been employed for a wide variety of reasons since Hitler's rise to power. Some Nazi comparisons are logical fallacies, such as reductio ad Hitlerum. Godwin's law asserts that a Nazi analogy is increasingly likely the longer an internet discussion continues; Mike Godwin also stated that not all Nazi comparisons are invalid.

American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive poster comparing the blockade of Biafra to the Holocaust in terms of casualties

Origins edit

During the Nazi era, Adolf Hitler was frequently compared to previous leaders including Napoleon, Philip of Macedon, and Nebuchadnezzar. The comparers wanted to make Hitler understandable to their audiences by comparing him to known leaders, but according to historian Gavriel Rosenfeld the comparisons obscured Hitler's radical evil. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Hitler was compared to Napoleon by The Brooklyn Eagle and Middletown Times. The Night of Long Knives was compared at the time to such events as the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, a 1572 massacre of French Huguenots by Catholics. The comparison between Hitler and Philip of Macedon was used by some American journalists who advocated the United States's entry into World War II. Others felt that this did not go far enough and used other metaphors such as Nebuchadnezzar and Tamerlane: Harold Denny of The New York Times visited Buchenwald and later stated that "Tamerlane built his mountain of skulls ... Hitler’s horrors … dwarf all previous crimes".[2] In a public radio broadcast of 24 August 1941, Winston Churchill compared Nazi war crimes in the Soviet Union to the Mongol invasion of Europe, saying "There has never [since] been methodical, merciless butchery on such a scale, or approaching such a scale."[3]

Nazism has come to be a metaphor for evil, according to academic Brian Johnson, leading to Nazi comparisons.[4] The Anti-Defamation League suggested that the Nazi era had become the "most available historical event illustrating right versus wrong."[5] Rosenfeld noted that Hitler "gained immortality as a historical analogy" and that he became:[2]

... a hegemonic historical analogy. He did not so much join the ranks of earlier historical symbols of evil as render them unusable. Indeed, perhaps because Western observers became convinced that wartime analogies had underestimated the Nazi dictator’s radicalism, they began to employ Hitler as the baseline for evaluating all new threats.

Legal issues edit

According to the ACLU, calling someone a Nazi is protected free speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.[6] In 2008, British radio presenter Jon Gaunt called a guest a Nazi on a BBC radio, for which he was fired. An Ofcom complaint against TalkSport, his employer, was upheld by the United Kingdom High Court of Justice in 2010.[7][8] In 2019, the Ukrainian S14 group won a defamation suit against Hromadske, a newspaper which had labeled them neo-Nazi, despite such a characterization having been used by Reuters and The Washington Post.[9] In Israel, a law was proposed in 2014 that would make it illegal to call someone a Nazi or use symbols associated with the Holocaust (such as striped clothing or yellow stars), in order to respect Holocaust survivors.[10]

Fallacies edit

Reductio ad Hitlerum, first coined in 1951 by Leo Strauss, is a logical fallacy which discounts an idea because it was promoted by Hitler or Nazis.[11] Godwin's law, coined in 1990 by Mike Godwin, asserts that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1".[12] A related convention is "Whoever mentions Hitler first, loses the argument."[5][13][14] However, Godwin has said that not all Nazi comparisons are invalid.[15][16]

List edit

Animals edit

Several individuals and groups have drawn direct comparisons between animal cruelty and the Holocaust. The analogies began soon after the end of World War II, when literary figures, many of them Holocaust survivors, Jewish or both, began to draw parallels between the treatment of animals by humans and the treatments of prisoners in Nazi death camps. The Letter Writer, a 1968 short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, is a literary work often cited as the seminal use of the analogy.[17] The comparison has been criticized by organizations that campaign against antisemitism, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, particularly since 2006, when PETA began to make heavy use of the analogy as part of campaigns for improved animal welfare.[18]

Anti-smoking edit

Public health measures adopted since World War II in order to reduce smoking have been compared with anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany, which is considered by proponents of anti-smoking measures to be a fallacious reductio ad Hitlerum which often exaggerates how much the Nazis actually opposed smoking.[19][20] Historian of science Robert N. Proctor speculates that Nazi associations "forestall[ed] the development of effective anti-tobacco measures by several decades".[21]

Bioethics edit

According to an editorial by Arthur Caplan in Science, bioethics questions including "stem cell research, end-of-life care, the conduct of clinical trials in poor nations, abortion, embryo research, animal experimentation, genetic testing, or human experimentation involving vulnerable populations" are often compared to Nazi eugenics and Nazi human experimentation. According to Caplan, the Nazi analogy has the potential to shut down debate and its capricious use is unethical.[22] Similar arguments were made by Nat Hentoff in 1988, writing for The Hastings Center Report.[23]

Chinese Communist Party edit

Analogies between China and Nazi Germany have also been drawn by Australian politician Andrew Hastie.[24] However, China–Nazi comparisons are considered by Edward Luce to be a form of anti-Chinese sentiment and potentially a self-fulfilling prophecy.[25] In July 2020, British Jewish leader Marie van der Zyl said that there were "similarities" between the treatment of the Uyghurs in China and the crimes committed by Nazi Germany.[26]

Chinazi flag edit

 
"Chinazi" flag
The "Chinazi" (赤納粹) flag – a portmanteau of "China" and "Nazi"[27][28][29] — was created by combining the flag of the People's Republic of China and that of the Nazi Party to draw comparisons between the Chinese and the 1933–1945 German Nazi governments. Variations include golden stars forming a Nazi swastika on a red background[30][31] and Nazi swastikas replacing the golden stars on the Chinese flag.[32] American journalist and political commentator Nicholas Kristof mentioned graffiti in Hong Kong using the 'Chinazi' label to denounce the influence of the Chinese government, he reported in The New York Times.[33]

Donald Trump edit

 
Protestor opposing the 2018 state visit of Donald Trump to the United Kingdom

While qualified comparisons between Hitler's rise to power and the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election have been made by some historians,[34][35] NeverTrump Republicans, and Democrats,[36] the comparison is opposed by other scholars and commentators who cite reasons such as Trump lacking a coherent ideology, not supporting a dictatorship or political violence, and his rejection of interventionist foreign policy.[37] According to Rosenfeld's research, the frequency of comparisons between Trump and Hitler in the media peaked in 2017 and the number of internet searches for "Trump and Hitler" has also decreased from a high point between mid-2015 and mid-2017.[38]

European Union edit

Some Eurosceptic politicians, including UKIP's Gerard Batten[39] and Finns Party MP Ville Tavio, have compared the European Union to Nazi Germany.[40] Then Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk of the pro-Russia party Ukrainian Choice argues that "objectively" the European Union is the heir of Nazi Germany.[41] In many Greek newspapers during the Greek government-debt crisis, caricatures appeared depicting the European troika and Angela Merkel as Nazis preparing to reenact the Axis occupation of Greece.[42] Merkel was also depicted as Hitler during demonstrations against her 2016 visit to the Czech Republic; the demonstrators objected to her approach to the European migrant crisis.[43] Opponents argue that the Nazi empire was formed by conquest and that joining the EU is voluntary, among other differences.[44]

Indian Wars edit

The Nazi war of annihilation on the Eastern Front has been compared to the United States Army's conduct in the Indian Wars.[45][46] However, Native American demographic collapse was mostly caused by introduced disease, rather than warfare, and historians disagree as to whether the Indian Wars, or parts thereof, can be considered a form of genocide.[47]

Islamism and Islamic fundamentalism edit

Some historians, including Matthias Küntzel, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz and Barry Rubin, argue that there is a high degree of similarity between the ideologies of Nazism and Islamism, especially in their radical antisemitism and xenophobia.[48][49]

Israel edit

 
Pro-Palestine protest in Cali, Colombia

Whether comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany are intrinsically antisemitic is disputed.[50] The Jewish Anti-Defamation League considers the comparison to be inaccurate and antisemitic,[51] and is part of the Working Definition of Antisemitism.[52] However, some Holocaust survivors have made that comparison themselves, mirroring their experiences to those of Palestinians.[53]

LGBT issues edit

 
A protestor opposing gay marriage in Boston in 2007 makes a comparison between the contemporary United States ("Today") and Nazi Germany.

The AIDS–Holocaust metaphor can be controversial.[54] While Susan Sontag said that "It's wrong to compare a situation in which there was real culpability to one in which there is none", it is also the case that homophobic views resulted in dismissal of the suggestion of research and treatment being supported, severely exacerbating the epidemic.[55][56]

In 2017, Patriarch Kirill, the highest authority in the Russian Orthodox Church, compared same-sex marriage to Nazism because in his opinion both were a threat to traditional family.[57] In 2019, Pope Francis criticized politicians who lash out at homosexuals, Romani people, and Jews, saying that it reminded him of Adolf Hitler's speeches in the 1930s.[58]

Some advocates of trans-exclusionary radical feminism have compared transgender medical care to Nazi human experimentation or transsexuality to Nazism.[59]

Paul Kagame edit

In a speech made on 9 December 2023, Félix Tshisekedi, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, compared Rwandan President Paul Kagame to Hitler, saying that if he "[wants] to behave like Adolf Hitler by having expansionist aims, I promise he will end up like Adolf Hitler". A Rwandan government spokesperson condemned this statement, accusing Tshisekedi of making "a loud and clear threat".[60] This remark was made in the context of an offensive in the DRC launched by the March 23 Movement, a rebel group widely considered to be directly supported by Rwanda,[61][62][63][64] despite official Rwandan denials.[65][66]

"Second Holocaust" edit

The term "second Holocaust" is used for perceived threats to the State of Israel, Jews, and Jewish life.[67] In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "Iran wants a second Holocaust" and to "destroy another six million plus Jews", after his Iranian counterpart described Israel as a "malignant cancerous tumor".[68] In 2019, Israeli education minister Rafi Peretz compared Jewish intermarriage to a "second Holocaust".[69]

Stalinism edit

 
At a demonstration in Prague in April 1990, a swastika is drawn on an anti-KSČ (Communist Party of Czechoslovakia) election banner.
Some historians and other authors have carried out comparisons of Nazism and Stalinism. They have considered the similarities and differences between the two ideologies and political systems, the relationship between the two regimes, and why both came to prominence simultaneously. During the 20th century, the comparison of Nazism and Stalinism was made on totalitarianism, ideology, and personality cult. Both regimes were seen in contrast to the liberal democratic Western world, emphasising the similarities between the two.[70]

Vladimir Putin edit

Comparisons have been made between Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler especially during the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

Wealth edit

In 2014, venture capitalist and billionaire Thomas Perkins wrote to The Wall Street Journal to compare what he called "the progressive war on the American one percent" to what Jews faced during Kristallnacht. According to Jordan Weissmann, writing in The Atlantic, this is "the worst historical analogy you will read for a long, long time".[71][72] Perkins was also criticized on Twitter, with The New York Times journalist Steven Greenhouse writing, "As someone who lost numerous relatives to the Nazi gas chambers, I find statements like this revolting & inexplicable".[71] Perkins later apologized for the comparison.[73]

Criticism edit

According to a press release of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Careless Holocaust analogies may demonize, demean, and intimidate their targets."[74] Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the Anti-Defamation League, said that "misplaced comparisons trivialise this unique tragedy in human history... particularly when public figures invoke the Holocaust in an effort to score political points."[5]

In 2017, the German journalist Pieke Biermann argued that Nazi comparisons were undergoing a process akin to inflation due to their increased and inappropriate use.[75]

Amanda Moorghen, a researcher for the English Speaking Union, said that Nazi comparisons were not often persuasive: "Wielding accusations of fascism as an insult doesn't help to get your audience on side - instead, you raise the stakes of the debate, forcing a polarisation between 'good' and 'evil' into a discussion that may have reasonable positions on both sides." Instead, she recommended criticizing the opponent's argument directly.[5]

See also edit

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Further reading edit

  • Adam, Heribert (1997). "The Nazis of Africa: Apartheid as Holocaust?". Canadian Journal of African Studies. 31 (2): 364–370. doi:10.2307/486185. ISSN 0008-3968. JSTOR 486185.
  • Bourdon, Jerome (August 2015). "Outrageous, inescapable? Debating historical analogies in the coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict". Discourse & Communication. 9 (4): 407–422. doi:10.1177/1750481315576835. ISSN 1750-4813. S2CID 145056540.
  • Caplan, Arthur L. (2012). When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4612-0413-8.
  • Fermaglich, Kirsten (2007). American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965. Brandeis University Press. ISBN 978-1-58465-549-7.
  • Johnson, Brian (2010). 'Just Like Hitler': Comparisons to Nazism in American Culture (PhD thesis). University of Massachusetts Amherst.
  • Michalczyk, John J. (1994). Medicine, Ethics, and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-55612-752-6.
  • Musolff, Andreas (2016). "Instrumentalisation of Holocaust Memory and False Historical Analogies". In Seymour, David M; Camino, Mercedes (eds.). The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Contesting/Contested Memories. Taylor & Francis. doi:10.4324/9781315647968. ISBN 9781315647968.
  • Rosenfeld, Gavriel (2015). Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-07399-9.
  • Smeekes, Anouk; Van Acker, Kaat; Verkuyten, Maykel; Vanbeselaere, Norbert (14 November 2013). "The legacy of Nazism: Historical analogies and support for the far right". Social Influence. 9 (4): 300–317. doi:10.1080/15534510.2013.855141. S2CID 145131946.

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Nazi analogies or Nazi comparisons are any comparisons or parallels which are related to Nazism or Nazi Germany which often reference Adolf Hitler Joseph Goebbels the SS or the Holocaust 1 Despite criticism such comparisons have been employed for a wide variety of reasons since Hitler s rise to power Some Nazi comparisons are logical fallacies such as reductio ad Hitlerum Godwin s law asserts that a Nazi analogy is increasingly likely the longer an internet discussion continues Mike Godwin also stated that not all Nazi comparisons are invalid American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive poster comparing the blockade of Biafra to the Holocaust in terms of casualties Contents 1 Origins 2 Legal issues 3 Fallacies 4 List 4 1 Animals 4 2 Anti smoking 4 3 Bioethics 4 4 Chinese Communist Party 4 4 1 Chinazi flag 4 5 Donald Trump 4 6 European Union 4 7 Indian Wars 4 8 Islamism and Islamic fundamentalism 4 9 Israel 4 10 LGBT issues 4 11 Paul Kagame 4 12 Second Holocaust 4 13 Stalinism 4 14 Vladimir Putin 4 15 Wealth 5 Criticism 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksOrigins editDuring the Nazi era Adolf Hitler was frequently compared to previous leaders including Napoleon Philip of Macedon and Nebuchadnezzar The comparers wanted to make Hitler understandable to their audiences by comparing him to known leaders but according to historian Gavriel Rosenfeld the comparisons obscured Hitler s radical evil When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933 Hitler was compared to Napoleon by The Brooklyn Eagle and Middletown Times The Night of Long Knives was compared at the time to such events as the St Bartholomew s Day Massacre a 1572 massacre of French Huguenots by Catholics The comparison between Hitler and Philip of Macedon was used by some American journalists who advocated the United States s entry into World War II Others felt that this did not go far enough and used other metaphors such as Nebuchadnezzar and Tamerlane Harold Denny of The New York Times visited Buchenwald and later stated that Tamerlane built his mountain of skulls Hitler s horrors dwarf all previous crimes 2 In a public radio broadcast of 24 August 1941 Winston Churchill compared Nazi war crimes in the Soviet Union to the Mongol invasion of Europe saying There has never since been methodical merciless butchery on such a scale or approaching such a scale 3 Nazism has come to be a metaphor for evil according to academic Brian Johnson leading to Nazi comparisons 4 The Anti Defamation League suggested that the Nazi era had become the most available historical event illustrating right versus wrong 5 Rosenfeld noted that Hitler gained immortality as a historical analogy and that he became 2 a hegemonic historical analogy He did not so much join the ranks of earlier historical symbols of evil as render them unusable Indeed perhaps because Western observers became convinced that wartime analogies had underestimated the Nazi dictator s radicalism they began to employ Hitler as the baseline for evaluating all new threats Legal issues editAccording to the ACLU calling someone a Nazi is protected free speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution 6 In 2008 British radio presenter Jon Gaunt called a guest a Nazi on a BBC radio for which he was fired An Ofcom complaint against TalkSport his employer was upheld by the United Kingdom High Court of Justice in 2010 7 8 In 2019 the Ukrainian S14 group won a defamation suit against Hromadske a newspaper which had labeled them neo Nazi despite such a characterization having been used by Reuters and The Washington Post 9 In Israel a law was proposed in 2014 that would make it illegal to call someone a Nazi or use symbols associated with the Holocaust such as striped clothing or yellow stars in order to respect Holocaust survivors 10 Fallacies editReductio ad Hitlerum first coined in 1951 by Leo Strauss is a logical fallacy which discounts an idea because it was promoted by Hitler or Nazis 11 Godwin s law coined in 1990 by Mike Godwin asserts that as an online discussion grows longer the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1 12 A related convention is Whoever mentions Hitler first loses the argument 5 13 14 However Godwin has said that not all Nazi comparisons are invalid 15 16 List editAnimals edit These paragraphs are an excerpt from Holocaust analogy in animal rights edit Several individuals and groups have drawn direct comparisons between animal cruelty and the Holocaust The analogies began soon after the end of World War II when literary figures many of them Holocaust survivors Jewish or both began to draw parallels between the treatment of animals by humans and the treatments of prisoners in Nazi death camps The Letter Writer a 1968 short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer is a literary work often cited as the seminal use of the analogy 17 The comparison has been criticized by organizations that campaign against antisemitism including the Anti Defamation League ADL and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum particularly since 2006 when PETA began to make heavy use of the analogy as part of campaigns for improved animal welfare 18 Anti smoking edit See also Tobacco industry playbook Public health measures adopted since World War II in order to reduce smoking have been compared with anti tobacco movement in Nazi Germany which is considered by proponents of anti smoking measures to be a fallacious reductio ad Hitlerum which often exaggerates how much the Nazis actually opposed smoking 19 20 Historian of science Robert N Proctor speculates that Nazi associations forestall ed the development of effective anti tobacco measures by several decades 21 Bioethics edit According to an editorial by Arthur Caplan in Science bioethics questions including stem cell research end of life care the conduct of clinical trials in poor nations abortion embryo research animal experimentation genetic testing or human experimentation involving vulnerable populations are often compared to Nazi eugenics and Nazi human experimentation According to Caplan the Nazi analogy has the potential to shut down debate and its capricious use is unethical 22 Similar arguments were made by Nat Hentoff in 1988 writing for The Hastings Center Report 23 Chinese Communist Party edit Analogies between China and Nazi Germany have also been drawn by Australian politician Andrew Hastie 24 However China Nazi comparisons are considered by Edward Luce to be a form of anti Chinese sentiment and potentially a self fulfilling prophecy 25 In July 2020 British Jewish leader Marie van der Zyl said that there were similarities between the treatment of the Uyghurs in China and the crimes committed by Nazi Germany 26 Chinazi flag edit nbsp Chinazi flag This section is an excerpt from Art of the 2019 2020 Hong Kong protests Chinazi edit The Chinazi 赤納粹 flag a portmanteau of China and Nazi 27 28 29 was created by combining the flag of the People s Republic of China and that of the Nazi Party to draw comparisons between the Chinese and the 1933 1945 German Nazi governments Variations include golden stars forming a Nazi swastika on a red background 30 31 and Nazi swastikas replacing the golden stars on the Chinese flag 32 American journalist and political commentator Nicholas Kristof mentioned graffiti in Hong Kong using the Chinazi label to denounce the influence of the Chinese government he reported in The New York Times 33 Donald Trump edit nbsp Protestor opposing the 2018 state visit of Donald Trump to the United Kingdom While qualified comparisons between Hitler s rise to power and the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election have been made by some historians 34 35 NeverTrump Republicans and Democrats 36 the comparison is opposed by other scholars and commentators who cite reasons such as Trump lacking a coherent ideology not supporting a dictatorship or political violence and his rejection of interventionist foreign policy 37 According to Rosenfeld s research the frequency of comparisons between Trump and Hitler in the media peaked in 2017 and the number of internet searches for Trump and Hitler has also decreased from a high point between mid 2015 and mid 2017 38 European Union edit See also Fourth Reich Some Eurosceptic politicians including UKIP s Gerard Batten 39 and Finns Party MP Ville Tavio have compared the European Union to Nazi Germany 40 Then Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk of the pro Russia party Ukrainian Choice argues that objectively the European Union is the heir of Nazi Germany 41 In many Greek newspapers during the Greek government debt crisis caricatures appeared depicting the European troika and Angela Merkel as Nazis preparing to reenact the Axis occupation of Greece 42 Merkel was also depicted as Hitler during demonstrations against her 2016 visit to the Czech Republic the demonstrators objected to her approach to the European migrant crisis 43 Opponents argue that the Nazi empire was formed by conquest and that joining the EU is voluntary among other differences 44 Indian Wars edit The Nazi war of annihilation on the Eastern Front has been compared to the United States Army s conduct in the Indian Wars 45 46 However Native American demographic collapse was mostly caused by introduced disease rather than warfare and historians disagree as to whether the Indian Wars or parts thereof can be considered a form of genocide 47 Islamism and Islamic fundamentalism edit See also Islamofascism Some historians including Matthias Kuntzel Wolfgang G Schwanitz and Barry Rubin argue that there is a high degree of similarity between the ideologies of Nazism and Islamism especially in their radical antisemitism and xenophobia 48 49 Israel edit Main articles Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany and Criticism of the Israeli government Comparisons with Nazi Germany Further information Palestinian genocide accusation and Holocaust trivialization Israeli Palestinian conflict nbsp Pro Palestine protest in Cali Colombia Whether comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany are intrinsically antisemitic is disputed 50 The Jewish Anti Defamation League considers the comparison to be inaccurate and antisemitic 51 and is part of the Working Definition of Antisemitism 52 However some Holocaust survivors have made that comparison themselves mirroring their experiences to those of Palestinians 53 LGBT issues edit nbsp A protestor opposing gay marriage in Boston in 2007 makes a comparison between the contemporary United States Today and Nazi Germany The AIDS Holocaust metaphor can be controversial 54 While Susan Sontag said that It s wrong to compare a situation in which there was real culpability to one in which there is none it is also the case that homophobic views resulted in dismissal of the suggestion of research and treatment being supported severely exacerbating the epidemic 55 56 In 2017 Patriarch Kirill the highest authority in the Russian Orthodox Church compared same sex marriage to Nazism because in his opinion both were a threat to traditional family 57 In 2019 Pope Francis criticized politicians who lash out at homosexuals Romani people and Jews saying that it reminded him of Adolf Hitler s speeches in the 1930s 58 Some advocates of trans exclusionary radical feminism have compared transgender medical care to Nazi human experimentation or transsexuality to Nazism 59 Paul Kagame edit Further information Democratic Republic of the Congo Rwanda tensions 2022 present and M23 offensive 2022 2023 See also Democratic Republic of the Congo Rwanda relations In a speech made on 9 December 2023 Felix Tshisekedi the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo compared Rwandan President Paul Kagame to Hitler saying that if he wants to behave like Adolf Hitler by having expansionist aims I promise he will end up like Adolf Hitler A Rwandan government spokesperson condemned this statement accusing Tshisekedi of making a loud and clear threat 60 This remark was made in the context of an offensive in the DRC launched by the March 23 Movement a rebel group widely considered to be directly supported by Rwanda 61 62 63 64 despite official Rwandan denials 65 66 Second Holocaust edit Main article Second Holocaust The term second Holocaust is used for perceived threats to the State of Israel Jews and Jewish life 67 In 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran wants a second Holocaust and to destroy another six million plus Jews after his Iranian counterpart described Israel as a malignant cancerous tumor 68 In 2019 Israeli education minister Rafi Peretz compared Jewish intermarriage to a second Holocaust 69 Stalinism edit nbsp At a demonstration in Prague in April 1990 a swastika is drawn on an anti KSC Communist Party of Czechoslovakia election banner This paragraph is an excerpt from Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism edit Some historians and other authors have carried out comparisons of Nazism and Stalinism They have considered the similarities and differences between the two ideologies and political systems the relationship between the two regimes and why both came to prominence simultaneously During the 20th century the comparison of Nazism and Stalinism was made on totalitarianism ideology and personality cult Both regimes were seen in contrast to the liberal democratic Western world emphasising the similarities between the two 70 Vladimir Putin edit Main article Putler Comparisons have been made between Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler especially during the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine Wealth edit In 2014 venture capitalist and billionaire Thomas Perkins wrote to The Wall Street Journal to compare what he called the progressive war on the American one percent to what Jews faced during Kristallnacht According to Jordan Weissmann writing in The Atlantic this is the worst historical analogy you will read for a long long time 71 72 Perkins was 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0008 3968 JSTOR 486185 Bourdon Jerome August 2015 Outrageous inescapable Debating historical analogies in the coverage of the Israeli Palestinian conflict Discourse amp Communication 9 4 407 422 doi 10 1177 1750481315576835 ISSN 1750 4813 S2CID 145056540 Caplan Arthur L 2012 When Medicine Went Mad Bioethics and the Holocaust Springer Science amp Business Media ISBN 978 1 4612 0413 8 Fermaglich Kirsten 2007 American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America 1957 1965 Brandeis University Press ISBN 978 1 58465 549 7 Johnson Brian 2010 Just Like Hitler Comparisons to Nazism in American Culture PhD thesis University of Massachusetts Amherst Michalczyk John J 1994 Medicine Ethics and the Third Reich Historical and Contemporary Issues Rowman amp Littlefield ISBN 978 1 55612 752 6 Musolff Andreas 2016 Instrumentalisation of Holocaust Memory and False Historical Analogies In Seymour David M Camino Mercedes eds The Holocaust in the Twenty First Century Contesting Contested Memories Taylor amp Francis doi 10 4324 9781315647968 ISBN 9781315647968 Rosenfeld Gavriel 2015 Hi Hitler How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 1 107 07399 9 Smeekes Anouk Van Acker Kaat Verkuyten Maykel Vanbeselaere Norbert 14 November 2013 The legacy of Nazism Historical analogies and support for the far right Social Influence 9 4 300 317 doi 10 1080 15534510 2013 855141 S2CID 145131946 External links edit nbsp Media related to Comparisons with Nazis at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nazi analogies amp oldid 1220512769, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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