This is all rhetorical nonsense, and we're not talking at all about 1918. Red herring. There was push and shove among the Native Americans as there was just about everywhere on earth, but rarely did it result in genocide. Much of the American warfare was young men getting their yayas out, as was the case in many places, a good example being New Guinea where there was frequent war but rarely significant casualties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_warfareSmitty-48 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:09 pmBear in mind that the Nazis were aware of this.
The Nazis had a fascination with the American Indians.
The Nazis actually idolized the Lakota as ideal warriors.
The Lakota actually asserted themselves to be a master race as the Nazis did.
So now you are sympathizing with Nazis, just the Indian ones instead of the German ones.
The Lakota were as merciless as the Nazis, the Nazis patterned themselves on the Lakota.
Yet here you come; boo hoo hoo, poor little Indians.
If the Lakota can be sympathized with for their loss, why not the Germans for the Treaty of Versailles?
If you can sympathize with the Lakota who massacred, tortured and enslaved, why you so hard on the Germans?
But Europeans in America was what SF writer Iain M Banks called a "out of context event". They had no frame of reference to deal with what it meant, they could not understand it's implications. They never stood a chance. It was like some kids playing touch football in a sandlot when an NFL team comes in and literally crushes them. Yeah, they were in the game, but the game changed beyond recognition.
To some degree the behavior of the Authoritarians of 20th century was an OoC event. Europeans had been at war more or less continually for millennia, and no one had ever tried to systematically wipe out an entire populations since Rome did Carthage, and even that was probably more PR than real genocide. No one in the 30's & 40's believed it was happening at the time, whether it was reports from the USSR of famines, reports of the Rape of Nanking, or reports of Nazi death camps. People assumed it was more of the usual push and shove, not new types of regimes that saw genocide as a tool. Now that is what is I will call evil.
