re: #9 Slumbering Behemoth

Wow, really? I know you have a good rep for battling holocaust deniers, so I am not surprised you know this. It’s just that this is the first time I have ever heard someone try to blame Zionism/Jews for the Third Reich. My jaw was on the floor.

Sooner or later I will write a review of that film, it’s very interesting how all the same memes appear years later in different cultures (even though the film itself was so antisemitic it never saw the light of the day in the USSR).

The “Jews are responsible for Hitler” is just an extreme version of the “Zionist-Nazi collaboration” thesis, which goes like this: evil rich Zionists (ahem) want a state of their own and want only the “best” people there, so they enter into an agreement with the Nazis and influence them in other ways (sponsor them, in the more lurid versions) so that the richer and younger Jews are sent to the Palestine; they also turn the blind eye to the fate of the rest (or even support their demise, again, in the more lurid versions), then using their fate for political leverage. Some of the “juicier” details appear in the most extreme versions, e.g. hints that Eichmann might have been Jewish. Usually the stories mention the Haavara agreement and Rudolf Kasztner’s deal with Eichmann, both usually stripped of all context.