The Age of Fascism and Identity Crisis.

The fall of first World War by signing the treaty named “Treaty of Versailles”
between Allied Powers and Germany –following hurting pathetic German
emotions that caused rise of an Evil and Fascist Adolf Hitler– and birth of another
wild, brutal World War. The words argue that rise of such Fascist ruler – Adolf
Hitler – had attempted to start slogans and competency favored one particular
ethnicity for power that illustrates identity crisis for instance, The Holocaust.
Politics emphasis, it’s active engagement with power and status quo though the
Fuhrer Adolf Hitler did, genocide German Jews by making them responsible for
each of state’s irresponsibility, backwardness and failures. Thus, to seek
attention of the human rights policy makers and governing bodies that all the
human, no matter which ethnicity they belong, should be given rights according
to law. Living on the land being inborn, right of common people to be engaged
with liberated citizenship at the land of birth that’s the solution to confront with
genocidal and populist rulers and to stop more displacement of indigenous
people. As the moment of displacing Germany Jewish people come to pass,
throwing all the Jews out of Germany along with rest of the European Jews. The
Jewish people of nowhere took refuge in Palestine, as the time went on another
displacement of Palestinian people befall by accusing Jewish genocide against
Muslims on their homeland and the age of Fascism and identity crisis starts for
more demonstrating inhuman killing of indigenous people of Palestine.

The end of history’s second largest brutal, inhuman and wildest war, on
November 11, 1918, Germany formally surrendered and all nations agreed to
end the war while the terms of peace were discussed. On June 28, 1919, Germany
and its allies (including Britain, France, Italy, and Russia) signed Treaty of
Versailles, formally ending the war. Treaty imposed very harsh and humiliating
terms and reparation amounts and lands on Germany, along with acceptance
accuse for the war that erect to limiting German armed forces which felt the
German populace a disrespect to their identity and culture that led to protest in
German parliament, out on the street and the afterwards rise of Adolf Hitler.
Some historians believe that in the face of such disastrous circumstances’
peacemakers did their best to make German suffer for it’s doing. other historians
describe the Treaty of Versailles as the agreement was half-hearted and
humiliating move, it did great deal of damage to German. However, that left
Germany so strong to take revenge.

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power after the social, political and economic unrest
following the defeat of Germany. Hitler touched his political intentions in Munich
19th of June 1919. As a political agent for army, Hitler took part the small
German Workers’ Party in Munich September 1919. In 1920, he got himself busy
with party’s agenda and was appointed responsible personae and left the army
to improve his position in the party. Same year, party was renamed the National
Socialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi). The circumstances were under
acquaintance for the development of the small party, and Hitler was largely
astute to take full advantage of them. When he joined the party, he felt
ineffective, committed to the program of nationalist and socialist ideology, but
was uncertain of its aims and divided under its leadership. They accepted his
program but considered it a means to an end. His propaganda and his personal
intentions led to controversies with other party leaders. Hitler countered their
effort to stop him by threatening to resign, and because the future of the party
depended on his power to decide. Nazi party had a very rapid growth and Hitler
tried to force Bavarian government and the local army commander – Hitler was
very familiar in Bavaria – to call a national revolution, very soon afterwards, local
security and military personae started open fire at the advancing marchers
killing a number of them. Hitler got injured too, a formal trail took place for
treason, he characteristically fallen with advantage of the compassion publicity
adored to him. Incident taught Hitler at any means, achieve power by legal
means. Court sentenced him for five years prison but it just took nine months
him to get rid out of prison.

The greatest threating enemy of Nazism, for Hitler, was not the liberal democracy
in Germany, which was about to touch the womb of collapse. Along with his
insistence on internationalism and economic conflict, his rival was
Weltanschauung Marxism (which embodied social democracy as well as
communism). Apart from Marxism, Hitler considered the greatest enemy of
Nazism is being a Jew, an incarnation of evil for Germany. There are words
among historians as to when anti-Semitism became Hitler’s core punishment.
Initially, he wrote, “Rational anti-Semitism must lead to systematic legal
opposition. Its final object must be the removal of the Jews altogether”. More
counted “destroyer of culture,” “a parasite within the nation.” and “a menace”.

Once power fall on Hitler’s feet, he established an authoritarian dictatorship. He

embodied the consent of president for coming elections. 27th of February 1933
(figuring the work of a Dutch Communist, Marinus) intensified an excuse for a
review of all guarantees of independence and a rapid campaign of violence. The
warm scenario of election on 5th of march, the Nazi got 43.9 percent support of
the voters. On the day 21 of March, the Reichstag gathered at the Potsdam
Garrison Church to demonstrate the unity of National Socialist with old
Conservative Germany, represented by Hindenburg. Two days afterward, the
Enabling Bill, which gave full authority to Hitler, was came into existence in the
Reichstag by a joint vote of Nazi, Nationalists and Center Party deputies (23rd of
March 1933). Within the tenure of three months or less later, all non-Nazi
parties, trade unions and organizations remained out of existence. Hitler did not
want to spark revolutionary thoughts. Conservative ideas were still essential
need if they were to succeed the throne of presidency and maintained military
friendship. Moreover, they did not evacuate industry leaders, provided it was
served to the intentions of the Nazi state.

The rise of Adolf Hitler even as the Fascist Fuhrer of Germany illustrates leading
path to identity crisis of only ethnicity Jewish community, “The Holocaust” and
another World War, which is known to the history, one the biggest disastrous
events of human history.

The writing emphasizes a broad view of identity crisis in the era of Fascist
Fuhrer Adolf Hitler during World War II and its consequences, displacing of Jews
from West to Middle East and the Palestine indigenous populace under Jewish
siege. The starting twice of three years of Hitler’s dictatorship, Jews were
affected of more than four hundred decrees and regulation on all their livings
and turning aspects. The regulation slowly but systematically stripped them of
their rights and property, turning them into citizens outpace. Many of the laws
were issued by the German administration that affected all Jews. States, regional
and local government officials also issued a number of orders in their respective
communities. As Nazi leaders were ready for war in Europe, anti-Jewish
legislation in Germany and Austria gestured the way of more radical persecution
of Jews. The renowned intellectual scholar and “The Holocaust” survivor, Noam
Chomsky stated, “The Holocaust was the most extreme atrocity in human history,
and we lose our humanity if we are even willing to enter the arena of debate with
those who seek to deny or underplay Nazi crimes.” Chomsky counted to
considering ambiguous opinion on Nazi racism’s wild cruelties and disastrous
errors of history is inhuman behavior. The policies were introduced and came
into existence by Nazi personae again Jews and anti-Nazi had catastrophic frame
of racism reference, it resulted death of hundreds of thousands of Jews and
millions of other people having different ethnicities, including Soviet civilians,
prisoners of war, the Roma, the disabled, political and religious dissent, and gay
men.

Germany was fighting two war simultaneously, “The Holocaust” the war against
Jews, a racial war and World War II. Nazi emphasis on words for Jews as a race
not a religious group and the racial logic of Nazism resulted annihilation. Hitler
showed egoistic opposition for Jews and the values they introduced to the world
alike social justice, business innovation and intellectual thinking etc. In Hitler’s
views, such opinions will restrict to exercise power and will create dissent mind
with in German state that inevitably lead to restraint power of master race. The
large number of extremist students along with many professors having Nazi
ideology, stormed university libraries and bookstores around in thirty cities
throughout Germany to get the rid-out thousands of books authored by anti-Nazi
and those who opposed Nazi regime and its ideology. The books were thrown in
street and tossed them on fire for sake to show clearance of un-Germanic
writings. A German known poet of Jewish identity, Heinrich Heine said, “Where
one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people.” Heine’s words got their
existence in Nazi Germany, the time between Jewish authors books were burnt
and afterwards People of Jewish identity.

Former United States Secretary of State, diplomate, author and Survivor of “The
Holocaust” Henry Kissinger reminds Nazi Germany regime and terror, “I could
never forget what an inspiration it had been to the victims of persecution, to my
family, and to me during cruel and degrading years. I always remembered the
thrill when I first walked the street of New York City. Seeing a group of boys, I
began to cross the other side to avoid being beaten up. And then I membered
where I was.” Kissinger’s words delight the horrible era of Nazism and its fascist
role within Germany, and the responsible for Jews displacement, is also be
phrased, “The Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine” and “Palestine
Emergency”. To Adolf Hitler, the anti-Semitic Fuhrer, the Jews were an inferior
race and foreign threat to German ethnic purity and community. Under the years
rule of Nazi Germany Jews were persecuted permanently, Hitler’s “The Last
Solution” – Came to existence as “The Holocaust”- hundreds of thousands mass
murder centers were set up in the camps. Under the Nuremberg Laws, Jews
became the norm for defamation and persecution. It fallen in November, when
Kristall Nacht, or “Night of the Broken Glass” came, German Syngogues were
burned and the windows of Jews places were smashed around 100 Jews got
killed and the twice of five more were arrested. German police forcefully got out
dozens of Jews from their home and ghettos. The Ghetto played a disastrous role
as circled captive cities under Jewish council, in addition to widespread
starvation, poverty, unemployment, and overpopulation made ghettos breading
based spread for disease such as typhus, with the time period between 1933 and
1939, millions of Jews who could make their self-able to get rid out of Germany,
were left while those remained, were lived in uncertainty and fear.

Elie Wisesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and “The Holocaust” survivor, wrote;
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must
interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy,
national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women
are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political view, that place must –
at that moment – become the center of the universe.” Recount, the Auschwitz
Holocaust Memorial and Museum, first plain to escape considered on 6th of July,
1940 at the sole start of Auschwitz’s existence. The reason behind stablishing so
far that 928 prisoners tried to escape from the Auschwitz camp complex, 878
men and 50 women. Very low number, phrased 196 prisoners made themselves
success in escaping but the majority got shot during pursuit and rest lived in
camps to see the end of war.

Professor Ilan Pappe an expatriate Israeli historian said, “Ethnic cleaning is an

effort to render an ethnically mixed country homogeneous by expelling a
particular group of people and turning them into refugee while demolishing the
home they were driven out from.” In 1917, the British government announced its
intention to facilitate the immigration of Jews to the singular homeland. The
country of Jewish people was considered Palestine by the United Nations in
1922. However, the large Arab populace in Palestine opposed the decision and
reacted vigorously violent to the proposed words. In 1936, the British Parliament
proposed the partition of Palestine between two states defining their believes,
which the Jews agreed to, but Arab opposed the idea was totally rejected by
Palestine people. United Nations proposed it again in 1948, after World War II
Britain had relinquished control of Palestine to the United Nations. Again,
proposal widespread into air and rejected by Arab. Immigrant Jews were
attacked by indigenous people of Palestine, moreover Arab couldn’t do enough to
stop the immigration of Jewish and international intervention in Palestine.
Professor Ilan Pappe sparks light on Palestine condition and says, “Half of the
indigenous people living in Palestine were driven out, half of their villages and
town were destroyed, and only very few among them ever managed to return.”
By the year 1948 the structure of Palestine’s economic, social and political were
damaged and rearranged with Zionist intentions by Jews. On 14th of May, 1948,
it was claimed after official conquering the territory of Palestine that the Jew
were to create a homeland called the state of Israel. United Nations showed keen
interest and approved Jewish intentions to create a state “Israel” within state
“Palestine” and Arab were managed to take their foothold back. Within the
duration of single overnight Palestine people lost almost 52% of their homeland.
As the time went on, the number of loss of territory raised, by 1967, the Arab
people were left with only 22% of their homeland. The migration fallen over
Palestine people, created an entire nation and has led to religious and cultural
wars between two entirely different group of the region. The current scenario
sparks light on the tense situation of ever constant battles between Israeli and
Palestine people. Professor Ilan Pappe spread a thought on Israel’s dark side of
intentions, “Most Zionists don’t believe that God exist, but they do believe he
promised them Palestine”

It’s the matter of fact, identity crisis is never isolated. Each Fascist governance, at
the glance of Hindutva India under Fascist Modi, Russia in the hands of Putin,
Erdogan’s governance in Turkey, the influence of Military regime in the politics
of Pakistan and Israel under Netanyahu’s fascist regime. Minorities and other
ethnicities are controlled through dismantling constitution. Fascist governing
bodies manipulate minds of common people and raise hatred feelings towards
minorities and one particular ethnicity based on cultural and religious identity.
The manipulation takes place through media, text books, and few selected faces,
Noam Chomsky calls it “Manufacturing Consent”. The people residents of Jammu
and Kashmir are under curfew around two years, moreover their rights of
autonomy, freedom of press, write, speak, education and even breathing are
violated alike Israel under Fascist Netanyahu has ruined common will of
Palestine people to live at their homeland. In Pakistan, the rights of Baloch and
Sindhi are nowhere to be counted even, thousands of people of Pakistan are
murdered for writing truth about the current involvements in politics and
religion. Huge number of writers, thinkers, journalists, public figures and
activists are missing and number is raising and it goes on.
 Author

Afzal Panhwar holds an I.R (Hons) degree from University of Sindh. He is freelance writer and can be reached
at: mahammadafzalpanhwar@gmail.com
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