and,BasilII wrote: That's an absolutely correct comment.
Some people on this thread seem to think like children, in black-and-white simple mindness, where whole states act
consistently based on principles, ideology and emotion..as if low instincts and war expediency of a largely immoral, chaotic and inefficient organisation had nothing to do with it. The Nazi mechanism did not have any central "grand scheme" that run on ideas...their opinions and actions could be repeatedly shown to have been incongruous and inexplicable. They could admire a people and let it rot, hate them and let them live..there is no "how they saw the Greeks easy answer"
Methinks.....as a lay person....
I can only half-agree with your sentiments here, Basil. What you say of this thread, is no different to other threads here such as "how did Hitler view the Blacks?", "how did Hitler view the Native Americans?" and "how did Hitler view the Asians" and a couple of others of such ilk. Also, as my previous post shows, the Greeks were placed in the Nazi 'racial hierarchy' (via that wikipedia link) which shows (if accurate or even honest) that such a question can be legitimate. Since this is a historical research forum, any and all questions can and should be asked.BasilII wrote:Hey you are missing an essential fact about the racial determination tests and theories of the German Nazis,
the fact that it was all bull***t... you ask as if there is any scientific basis on their racist mumbo-jumbo.
Of course not all Hindo-Europeans look the same...it was all arbitrary...
However, what I don't like are the 'fanboy' (to borrow the internet lingo) tendencies that can be brought out in such threads, as though one needs to feel loved or something.
Although, as others have already stated, the hundreds of thousands of dead speaks for itself.
With regards to your last quote, it can be said that some do not view it at all as BS.
Oh, and going back to the original post, I cannot remember where I read it (maybe in Jochen von Lang's book on Martin Bormann???) that Canaris's lineage cannot be traced by to Greece, but was found to have been from memory, South Tyrolian or something to that effect, but Italian nonetheless.
Also, with regards to Hess, I have only seen that claim from that website, Alexandria was a very busy and international (and 'multicultural' to use a word in heavy use today) and cosmopolitan city, although many Greeks lived there, they by no means had the monopoly on the city.