Scott Smith wrote:
Don't laugh. The story of "oriental barbarism" is a rather old one, isn't it?
Don't know how old, but it sure is funny to meet a "white gal" who fears the slant-eyed Mongol these days. Tamerlane has been dead for quite a while, IIRC.
As to "oriental barbarism", I know of no one prior to the Führer who pronounced the barbarians to be "sub-human", worthy of nothing better than being slaughtered, displaced or enslaved by the "master race".
Friedrich the Great once said something like
Es lohnt sich, die Freundschaft dieser Barbaren zu kultivieren.
My translation:
It is worth while to cultivate the friendship of these barbarians.
The Nazis actually came to look upon the “Asiatics” among the “sub-humans” as temporary allies – although it took them a while to realize that it was counterproductive to bump them off:
[...]Another group of prisoners of war who were annihilated especially in the first months of the war were the so-called Asiatics. They killing was also part of the tasks of the Einsatzgruppen from the beginning. Although they were mentioned for the first time ion Heydrichs order no. 8 of 17 July 1941, selections and murders by Einsatzgruppe B in Minsk already occurred before that. In accordance with the General Quarter Master Wagner’s order of 24 July the camp and guard personnel registered the “Asiatics (according to their race)” under the term “Asiatics”, also in Belorussia. There are no report about their killing by the Wehrmacht from this area, however. At an unknown time, for instance, 200 to 250 Red Army soldiers considered Mongolian were selected from the prisoner of war camp at Mogilev and shot by EK 8. In part the detachments of security police and SD also murdered them as presumed Jews, as Muslims are also circumcised. After several months protests from the Eastern Ministry and the Amt Ausland/Abwehr of the Wehrmacht High Command piled up because these entities considered the Asiatics, especially the Muslim Caucasians and soldiers from Central Asia, to be predestined collaborators. These protests led to an order by Heydrich of 12 September 1941 putting an end to the shooting of the “Asiatics”, which order, however, was not immediately followed by all Einsatzkommandos.[...]
My translation from Christian Gerlach’s book
Kalkulierte Morde, see my post of Mon Oct 14, 2002 2:28 pm on the thread
Annihilation of Soviet Prisoners of War in Belorussia
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