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Title: "Comparing the Status of Property in the Regimes of Hitler and Zionist Settler Movement"

Introduction

The regimes of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany and the activities associated with Jewish supremacist Zionism, particularly the Zionist settler movement in Israel, exhibit significant parallels in their treatment of private property. While the historical and ideological contexts are vastly different, both systems resulted in the de facto abolition of traditional private property rights. This essay will focus on the similarities between Nazi Germany and the Zionist settler movement, providing explicit examples illustrating how property owners in both cases were reduced to the status of administrators, compelled to follow the directives of their respective movements, and had their genuine autonomy significantly restricted.

I. Administrative Status of Property Owners

Under both Nazi Germany and the Zionist settler movement, property owners were effectively reduced to administrators, subject to state or movement control and supervision.

1. Nazi Germany: In Nazi Germany, property owners were required to conform to Nazi ideology, and non-compliance often led to the confiscation of property. An example is the Aryanization policy, which compelled the transfer of Jewish-owned businesses and properties to non-Jewish Germans.

2. Zionist Settler Movement: In the context of the Zionist settler movement in Israel, property owners in Palestinian territories have found themselves in a similar administrative role. Settler organizations have been known to apply pressure and intimidation tactics to encourage property sales from Palestinian landowners. Property owners are often compelled to conform to the goals of the settler movement.

II. Coercion and Reduced Autonomy

Both the Nazi regime and the Zionist settler movement employed coercion to ensure compliance with their respective ideologies, resulting in a diminished degree of autonomy for property owners.

3. Nazi Germany: In Nazi Germany, property owners faced coercion to align with the regime's objectives. The Gestapo and SS were instrumental in enforcing state directives and maintaining a climate of fear.

4. Zionist Settler Movement: In the context of the Zionist settler movement, property owners in Palestinian territories have similarly faced coercion. Threats, intimidation, and attacks on Palestinian property have been documented, compelling property owners to align with the goals and demands of the settler movement.

III. Personal Gain and Movement Loyalty

In both cases, property owners were primarily motivated by the imperative to serve the interests of the state or movement, rather than pursuing personal gain.

5. Nazi Germany: Property owners who cooperated with the Nazi regime were often rewarded, reinforcing the link between property ownership and the pursuit of state interests and party loyalty.

6. Zionist Settler Movement: In the context of the Zionist settler movement, property owners in Palestinian territories are expected to contribute to the broader goals of the movement, prioritizing the advancement of its objectives over personal gain. For instance, financial incentives and support are offered to individuals and organizations that align with the settler movement's goals.

IV. State or Movement Control and Directive Authority

In both Nazi Germany and the Zionist settler movement, property owners were subject to strict state or movement control and directive authority.

7. Nazi Germany: The state exercised substantial control over property ownership through policies such as the Reichswerke Hermann Göring and the Aryanization of Jewish-owned properties.

8. Zionist Settler Movement: The Zionist settler movement has maintained strict control over property in Palestinian territories, often via the seizure or acquisition of land for settlement expansion, sometimes against the will of Palestinian landowners.

V. Involvement in State or Movement Goals

Property owners in both cases were compelled to contribute to state or movement goals and serve the interests of the respective entities.

9. Nazi Germany: Property owners were expected to support the Nazi agenda, particularly during World War II when businesses were required to prioritize armament production and support the war effort.

10. Zionist Settler Movement: In the context of the Zionist settler movement, property administrators are directed to contribute to the goals of settlement expansion and the realization of the movement's objectives, which often necessitates the acquisition and control of land in Palestinian territories.

Conclusion

In the regimes of Hitler and the context of the Zionist settler movement, property owners faced remarkably similar fates. In both cases, property owners were reduced to the role of administrators, compelled to follow state or movement directives, and had their genuine autonomy significantly restricted. The parallel between Nazi Germany and the Zionist settler movement lies in the way both systems subjugated traditional private property rights to the interests and objectives of the state or movement, emphasizing loyalty to the ruling ideology and limiting individual autonomy.

Nazism vs. plain-vanilla Fascism--Key differentiators.

Unlike generic fascists, NAZI ideology/religion held the following:

• Extreme Anti-Communist belief, even though Nazis self-identified as a 'socialist' 'workers party'. 

The word NAZI was intended by critics to be a pejorative for the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP). NSDAP was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945.

• Preoccupation with Race, genetics, and racial purity and racial supremacy. Nazi's believed in the following:

  • Genocide tabulation. The imperative to exterminate the European Jewish population, with a focus on the Pale of Settlement. According the USHMM, The Nazis and their allies and collaborators murdered six million Jewish people in a genocide now known as the Holocaust.  On Table 3 of the USHMM webpage document the number of people murdered by the Nazis regime, the USHMM provides estimates of non-Jewish people who were are also murdered by Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators. The total estimated death toll for non-Jewish victims is between 5 and 6 million victims of murder. Among the non-Jewish groups slaughtered, the two largest groups killed by Nazis were Soviet prisoners-of-war and ethnic Poles, who accounted for lost souls totaling 3.3 million and 1.8 million, respectively. 

  • That Evil is Judaism--not merely that Jews are Evil. Extreme Jew-hatred (used as scapegoats for Germany's problems) even though USHMM notes that in 1933, Germany, a country with 67 million residents, had a relatively small Jewish population of a little more than a half million, equivalent to less the three-quarters of ONE-percent. Only 80 percent of Jews (about 400,000) held German citizenship. The remainder were primarily citizens of Poland, which put them at far greater risk for genocide because the Stalin-Hitler destruction of the Polish state made all Polish citizens into 'stateless' people--like Palestinians today--who have No recognized government to advocate for their welfare. They were by Hitler's design put into 'legal limbo,' therefore unprotected by any state, therefore Hitler's S.S. holocaust machine had what Israeli officials today call "freedom" from constraints of the Law of Armed Conflict to wage war and genocide with total impunity.

Unifying concept of Lebensraum. 

• • According to USHMM, "The  concept of Lebensraum—or “living space”—served as a critical ideological component in the Nazi worldview that drove both its military conquests and racial policy." 

  • Lebensraum also provided a vision for operationalizing Nazi ideology by identifying who, what, when, where, and how (military conquest & genocide). Ironically, Lebensraum has all the key ingredients of the 19th-century Zionist ideology. Lebensraum provided a religious-ideological justification for the following: 

  • Territorial Expansion to the East. 

Hitler was inspired by America's "Manifest Destiny" of western expansion, "from sea to shining sea." The Zionists had adopted a similar slogan: "A people without a land for a land without a people." 

• • • • For Lebensraum, Zionism, and Manifest Destiny, indigenous people did NOT exist; they were racially inferior people whose very existence did not matter. They were not "people." These Non-People had no right to life. Both for Zionists and American colonial settlers, the nomadic way of life of some indigenous peoples was incompatible with their settler homesteading project of surveying and subdividing the land for the purpose of establishing property rights, further settler expansion, and propietary farms. 

  • Expulsion / Extermination of Inferior indigenous populations. 

    • Lebensraum presumes like American Manifest Destiny that racially-superior colonial-settlers are entitled to homestead on "open land" that belongs to the state.

    • Pre-GAMING the Final Solution/Expulsion. Segregation, Apartheid, Economic Suffocation, Persecution, Ghetto-Concentration Camps, and . Like Nakba 2.0 being implemented by the Zionist-supremacist criminal regime of "Bibi" Netanyahu, the USHMM webpage for the "Final Solution" paints a horrific picture of persecution, exclusion, Apartheid, economic blockade, and ghetto-ization that is strikingly familiar to anyone who has visited the Gaza Strip, or the West Bank where, Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ is walled off like the Warsaw Ghetto with four-meter high walls that are taller and more formidable than the former Berlin Wall. Bethlehem and other places in the Occupied West Bank.  USHMM says :

"In the years of Nazi rule before World War II, policies of persecution and segregation [Apartheid] targeting German Jews focused on the goal of expulsion. After the Nazi Party seized power in 1933, state-sponsored racism generated anti-Jewish legislation, boycotts, "Aryanization," and massive street violence, as in the Kristallnacht (commonly known as the "Night of Broken Glass") pogroms. With all of these measures, the Nazi leaders sought to drive the Jews out of Germany by systematically isolating them from German society and by eliminating them from the German economy, removing any opportunity for them to make a living in Germany. "

• • Denying inalienable human rights and  self-determination to existing people living in internationally-recognized sovereign nation-states.

Strategies for executing Lebensraum

Destruction of Eastern-Slavic nation-states,

• • To Destroy the Nation-State meant destroying the Jews residing in the Pale of Settlement by killing, jailing, exiling, or suppressing in other ways the people who made possible the administrative function of the state (bureaucrats and politicians), the people responsible for maintaining cultural identity of the people (the creative class), and the people responsible for state security (the military and domestic police force). This USHMM 40-page report provides in-depth analysis and historical about the catastrophe suffered by conquered Polish people. The report provides details about the methodical Nazi S.S. terror operation waged against Polish civil society for the purpose of destroying any possible organized resistance, and any capacity for self-administration, and sense of collective identity, and any will for reclaiming human rights for self-determination.  

  • Elimination of Jews and other threats to the Totalitarian Takeover. 

    • • Genocide by bullet for Jews in Ukraine. The Nazis and their collaborators used bullets to kill most of the Jewish population in Ukraine. "The Holocaust" is the term for the genocide against Jews.  the S.S.-managed, state-sponsored, systemic, mass-execution of Jews by bullet and subsequent industrial-scale logistical, warehousing, persecution, and extermination of  six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 across Europe and North Africa. The Holocaust is the result of a conspiracy contrived in secrecy by leaders of the German state commit the grave crimes against humanity. The assigned codename for the Nazi conspiracy is "The Final Solution."

      • Genocide by multiple means on industrial scale for the remainder. Deport Jews from Germany and elsewhere, and kill them in forced-labor concentration camps using primarily tools of of industrial-scale brick & mortar gas chambers, mobile gas cambers, death through exhaustion, torture, and other dehumanizing methods. 

      • Just a Israel's government is doing to Palestinians trapped in Gaza today, According to the USHMM, Nazis 

"also murdered Jews in other acts of violence and by deliberately denying them access to adequate food, shelter, medical care, and other necessities. "

• • • • https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/documenting-numbers-of-victims-of-the-holocaust-and-nazi-persecution

  • NAZI MANIFEST DESTINY (more details)

Lebensraum Concept-Territorial Expansion, Racial Supremacy, and Historical Myths about a much larger ancient, glorious German state. Inspired by America, Hitler conceived of a Nazi version of American "Manifest Destiny" entailing territorial expansion by claiming territory to the east of Germany occupied by inferior Slavic people and Jews.

• • Yale Historian Tim Snyder, a scholar on both Ukraine and the Holocaust argues that contrary to the view that November 1938  kristallnacht, nationwide riots against Jews, had the effect only of emboldening Hitler for terrorizing and killing more Jews due to the docile response of the non-Jewish German population, Snyder argues that Kristallnacht also presented the LIMITATIONS of state-sponsored genocide. My understanding is that Snyder makes the case  that which required the Destruction of Eastern-Slavic nation-states, and the Jews residing there (the Pale of Settlement). Roughly 95 percent of Jews living in continental Europe resided to the East of Germany in what is called the "Pale of Settlement," constituting about 10 countries in present-day Europe.

• Historical Myths about neighboring territory belonging to Germany. 

  • Increasingly by the twentieth century, however, scholars and the public alike began to view the East as a region whose vast natural resources were wasted on racially “inferior” peoples like Slavs and Jews. A biological view of Lebensraum resonated with an inaccurate historical view of the German role in the East during the ancient and medieval periods. Expansionists clung to this mythic German “history” in eastern Europe, arguing that these regions were actually lost German lands. As one German publication stated in 1916, “we Germanic people build up—create—the Slav broods and dreams—like his earth.” 

• Militarism and constant warmongering

• Virulently anti-Communist

• Belief in greater people, greater collective above/beyond nation-state

• Domestic political and social situation in perpetual state of anxiety, fear, and hyper-vigilance about both domestic and political existential threats to the survival of the sovereign nation-state and its citizens of the master-race.

History of Jews of Europe-from Emancipation to "Pale of Settlement"

• • Roughly 95 percent of Jews living in continental Europe resided to the East of Germany in what is called the "Pale of Settlement," constituting about 10 countries in present-day Europe, but in 1933, the boundaries of the Pale largest consisted of the remnants of the former Polish-Lithuanian (Ukrainian) Commonwealth, which disappeared from the map through a series of three partitions between 1772 and 1795, bringing an end to the 226-year old commonwealth representing a UNION bonded not by servitude or serfdom of Tzarist Russian or totalitarian racial supremacy of Nazi Germany, but as a highly-diverse mosaic of people representing diverse cultures,, religious variations, languages, and ethnic groups spread across a vast territory.  In contrast, Russia, which had virtually no Jews before the final partition, found itself with the largest population of Jews on earth. So Russia did to the Jews what it did to its own people, most of whom lived in quasi-enslavement as feudal serfs. By 1933, Poland had 3.3 million Jews, Ukraine, now a 'Soviet Socialist Republic,' had 1.5 million Jews.

  • Where the Jews lived since the 13th Century had been more 'like America' than Western Europe until the destruction of the Polish-Lithuanian (Ukrainian) Commonwealth during three partitions in the 1790s that eliminated the Commonwealth and resulted in Tzarist Russia inheriting the world's largest Jewish population, which Russia  promptly persecuted just like it had been doing to its own deudal serfs since time immemorial. Russia promptly revoked Jewish 'emancipation' and confined Jews to living only within the territory designated the "Pale of Settlement."

  • Remnants of what would be part of the blueprint for America.  resided in the people residing in the Pale of Settlement. While most of Western Europe firmly believed in despotic divine monarchs, those living in the Pale were innovating with written constitutions and expansion of individual liberties. We see in the fierce determination of Ukrainians and Poles in their fights for freedom the remnants of their ancient cultural heritage--which included Human Rights, Individual Liberties, Union, and Freedom. After World War I, The concept of a Slavik counter-weight to Russia formed from  Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine persisted in the 20th century, and was advocated by Poland’s Marshal Józef Piłsudski, "a revolutionary Polish patriot, argued that Russia’s hunger for territory would continue to destabilize Europe unless Ukraine could gain independence from Moscow...[Piłsudski]  never managed to fulfil his hope for an independent Ukraine connected to Europe. [But] the farsighted and analytical statesman did manage to wrest his own homeland from the grip of czarism and from two other powers, Austria and Prussia," according to a November 2022 Associated Press report.

Selected sources:

The Nazi Party | USHMM

Introduction to the Holocaust | USHMM

 "Final Solution": In Depth | USHMM

 | USHMM