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 6.0 Epilog

   Tom Martinez provides us with a fitting epilog to this document in
   one of the final chapters of "Brotherhood of Murder":

      "[A] ... self-depreciating logic is displayed when the Neo-Nazis
      and their allies claim that the Holocaust never occured. In order
      to do that, they have to deny that their hero Hitler, with whose
      anti-Semitism they are in agreement, ever intended to harm the
      Jews. Instead, the Jews wanted to harm Hitler and bring the entire
      sacred Aryan supemacy movement into disrepute, which they did -
      with diabolical cleverness - by fabricating the Holocaust. Just as
      with Cutler's* analysis of The Order's failure, in denying the
      Holocaust, the Aryan racists are admitting they aren't capable of
      carrying out their own aims. Each time they appear to have tried
      to do so - as with the Jews in Germany or The Order - they are
      actually under the control of their enemy. In this way, claims of
      Aryan superiority become riddled with admissions of Aryan
      inferiority, which admissions - because they are psychologically
      insupportable to those making them - are readily denied through
      the creation of a fantasy world..." (Martinez, 206)

   * Eldon "Bud" Cutler, who succeeded Gary Yarbrough as security chief
     for the Aryan Nations in 1985

   Martinez, Thomas, with John Guinther. Brotherhood of Murder. New
      York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1988. ISBN 0070406995

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