[Archived with permission from the author] From newschool.edu!NeelyE Tue Jul 24 16:39:35 2001 Return-Path:Received: from newschool.edu([149.31.5.16]) (3162 bytes) by veritas.nizkor.org via sendmail with P:smtp/D:dotforward/T:pipe (sender: owner: ) id for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:39:35 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Jun-23) Received: from NGWGATE-Message_Server by newschool.edu with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:15:37 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.4.1 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:15:19 -0400 From: "Evan Neely" To: Subject: two corrections... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Status: ROr To whom it may concern, Nizkor's summation of the beliefs of Francis Yockey was very informative. I wanted to get information on him since he has recently come up in a few discussions, and it seemed that almost every other site was some radical right-wing group's website, so naturally I stayed away. The Nizkor project has always been informative, and I trust your information. However, there were two oversights in this particular article that I think deserve correction. 1. In the section on Yockey's politics, it is implied that Japan was seen as a full fledged ally of Hitler's Germany ("Perhaps he [Yockey] considers the alliance with Japan as Hitler's temporary expedient, like his two-year-long pact with Stalin"). I detected a somewhat sarcastic tone that led me to believe that the author was implying that the alliance with Japan had more meaning to Hitler. It has been well documented (K. D. Bracher, Saburo Ienaga, and others) that the alliance with Japan was a simple expedient to keep America busy while Germany attempted to conquer Europe. If the alliance was more than this, I think better documentation is in order for such a statement to be made. If my detection of sarcasm was a mistake , I withdraw this complaint. 2. Spengler is referred to as a Third Reich apologist in the same section ("...Oswald Spengler and other twentieth century German apologists for the Third Reich."). Spengler was most definitely not an apologist, nor was he actually a member of the Nazi party as is frequently erroneously charged. Spengler's complicity in the matter went no further than voting for Hitler in the 1933 election, which is a crime of which a third of Germany was guilty. Although a certain guilt is definitely found in casting such a vote, it doesn't make any of the voters outright apologists in the traditional sense of the word. Furthermore, it has been documented by the translator of Spengler's letters, Arthur Helps, that he did not join the party at any time (even though the article didn't accuse him of this, it is a general assumption of most people and I thought I would correct it in case there were any doubts). He also never made apologies for the party, the Reich, or any of their activities outside the bounds of nationalism- even going so far as tacitly condemning the anti-Semitism in his book "Jahre der Entscheidung." While by no means a vocal anti-Nazi, Spengler most definitely does not deserve the term "apologist." Thank you for your time. Evan Neely New York, NY
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