Nazism was practiced abroad long before it struck Europe itself
Evidence
In Cesaire’s formulation, “they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them”, he charges “that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, because until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps and trickles from every crack”. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 182
Categorization
- XREF: Combines with the boomerang idea and the reader’s notes on how violence against distant out-groups is normalized until it comes home. — connects to: Britain pioneered state-controlled broadcast propaganda before Nazi Germany did. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 414; Turning European critical weapons against Europe predates postcoloniality. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 863; Nazi ethnic cleansing radicalized earlier nationalist population policies into genocide — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 49