European Scholars Wonder Why Allies Didn’t Fight Nazi Military Wing, OK Political Wing

“The political leadership was over in Berlin, not out on the Eastern Front machine-gunning Jews by the hundreds of thousands.”

Berlin, June 18 – Continental historians studying the conduct of the western allies leading up to and during the Second World War expressed puzzlement at the allies’ insistence on combating Nazi Germany as a whole, instead of taking the more moderate course that European states take toward militant organizations such as Hezbollah: outlawing the “military” wing of the group in question while accepting its “political” wing.

The scholars pointed to what they called important parallels between the ideologies and conduct of the Nazi-run Third German Reich and that of Hezbollah, and questioned why the United States, Britain, France, Poland, the Soviet Union, and other powers engaged in the conflict adopted a hardline position that involved outright warfare against all the organs of the Nazi apparatus, when many of the same countries now take pains to draw a distinction between Hezbollah’s political and military wings.

“I don’t see why Nazi Germany should have suffered when this level of nuance was available to the Allies,” stated Anne Tissemeit of Cambridge University. “The violent supremacism that drives Hezbollah bears functional equivalence to German fascism under Hitler, but for some reason the Allies seem not to have considered fighting only the Nazi military wing while permitting the Nazi political wing to continue operating. If it works when it comes to Hezbollah, for example, what would have been the problem to apply that to the Nazis? It’s puzzling, to say the least.”

Ori Entaliszt of the University of Milan explained that the Nazi and Hezbollah movements share numerous qualities: aversion to Jews and Jewish sovereignty; ideology that requires them to dominate their respective regions; a culture of nursing grievances, entitlement, and scapegoating; and a cadre of allies and collaborators willing to condone or participate in the group’s atrocities through sympathy or expedience. “It wasn’t the Nazi political wing that was gassing Jews and other minorities at Treblinka,” he noted. “The political leadership was over in Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, wherever, not out on the Eastern Front machine-gunning Jews by the hundreds of thousands. It was totally different people. Most of the time. I think.”

“It’s the same with Hezbollah,” he continued. “So it remains something of a mystery why the Allies adopted a wholesale opposition policy and didn’t allow Nazi political figures to raise funds and conduct publicity campaigns for their organization within Allied borders. I mean, it was totally different from that other part of the Nazi state.”

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