Philip Kobina Baidoo, Jr. And Hitler's Mein Kampf 1

PHILIP KOBINA BAIDOO, JR. AND HIS AGITPROP REVISIONIST HISTORY

Mr. Baidoo, the half-story teller is at it again!
First off, we should want to bring to Mr. Baidoo’s attention little-known facts about Jewish contribution to the European Holocaust, just as some African chiefs and kings did both in the European Slave Trade (the so-called Transatlantic Slave Trade) and the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. We are here referring to the Judenrats (Jewish Council of Elders) in the case of the Holocaust. Even more conspicuously, Mr. Baidoo's articles did not mention what historian Bryan Mark Rigg calls "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" (see his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military"). This is to be expected because Mr. Baidoo is not a well-rounded writer. We have more than sufficiently overstated this observation in our previous rejoinder articles exposing the weaknesses of his arguments.

That said, the implications of Rigg’s profound historical work is mind-boggling in terms of the fact that not many people are aware Jews formed part of the Nazi Army, some holding senior positions in it. The other point is that some Jewish organizations, scholars, and leaders did not particularly like the book's revelations, fearing that, among other reasons, others might use them to justify the actions of Hitler and the Nazis (Dr. Rigg is a Cambridge-trained historian and Jewish himself; see his other book "Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich").

More important, though, Mr. Baidoo failed to show the links among the Holocaust, colonialism, Nazism (“Mein Kampf”), and the Herero and Namaqua Genocide (the first of such in modern history; the German Holocaust and its associated diabolical acts had its colonial roots in the German extermination of the Herero and Namaqua of South-West Africa, present-day Namibia, and American racist laws and her development of eugenics). Again Mr. Baidoo may not have known these facts. Here are some important texts (all written by leading Jewish scholars, authors, historians, and political scientists) demonstrating Jewish supposed collaborations with the Nazis leading up to, during, and after the Holocaust (the Final Solution) for Mr. Baidoo:

1) "The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine" (Edwin Black)

2) "51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis" (Lenni Brenner)

3) "Zionism in the Age of Dictators" (Lenni Brenner)

4) "Perfidy" (Ben Hecht)
5) "Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945" (Yehuda Bauer)

6) "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" (Norman Finkelstein)

7) "The Unheeded Cry" (Abraham Fuchs)
8) "The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust" (Tom Segev)

9) "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" (Hannah Arendt)

So much for Jewish involvement in the Holocaust. We mentioned earlier that the German Holocaust had its colonial roots in South West Africa (Namibia) and American racist laws and her development of eugenics. These statements are well-documented facts (Edwin Black). The latter writes: “In ‘Mein Kampf,’ published in 1924, Hitler quoted American eugenic ideology and openly displayed a thorough knowledge of American eugenics. ‘There is today one state,’ wrote Hitler, ‘in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of immigration] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States.’” Mr. Baidoo glossed this fact in discussing “Mein Kampf.”

AMERICAN EUGENICS, ADOLPH HITLER AND NAZISM
The story of eugenics is deeper and captivating. It is generally believed among historians that its modern formulation originated with Sir Francis Gaston, Charles Darwin’s cousin, in the Victorian Age. It then traveled from the United Kingdom (Britain), where Mr. Baidoo presently lives, to America where it was perfected. From America eugenics landed in Germany. American scientists and research institutions, for instance the Carnegie Institution, began sharing their expertise and findings with German scientists. Also an American foundation such as the Rockefeller Foundation “helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz,” writes Black. “The most commonly suggested method of eugenicide in America was a ‘lethal chamber’ or public locally operated gas chambers.”

Gas chambers became one of the potent weapons the Nazis used to annihilate their victims. We should also stress that Eugen Fischer, Chancellor of the University of Berlin and one of the important German scientists involved in eugenic experiments on ethnic Namibians in the beginning of the 20th century, taught medicine to Nazi doctors including Otmar von Verschuer, who in turn had Josef Mengele as one of his research assistants. Both Fischer and another German Frantz von Epp, who also played a leading role in the Herero Genocide, would later lend their expertise to Hitler and the Nazis. We should bear in mind that the Herero and Namaqua Genocide and eugenic experiments in South West Africa predated the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. Black recalls the relationship between Verschuer and Mengele:

“Verschuer had a long-time assistant. His name was Josef Mengele. On May 30, 1943, Mengele arrived at Auschwitz. Verschuer notified the German Research Society, ‘My assistant, Dr. Josef Mengele (M.D., Ph.D.) joined me in this branch of research. He is presently employed Hauptsturmfuhrer [captain] and camp physician in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Anthropological testing of the most diverse racial groups in this concentration camp is being carried out with permission of the SS Reichsfuhrer [Himmler].’”

The Germans had used concentration camps and slave labor in connection with the Herero and Namaqua of South West Africa (Namibia) long before their appearance in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, just as the British had used concentration camps in the connection with the Boers during the Anglo-Boer Wars in South Africa (Finkelstein). These are just by the way. Black continues:

“Only after eugenics became entrenched in the United States was the campaign transplanted into Germany, in no small measure through the efforts of California eugenicists, who published booklets idealizing sterilization and circulated them to German Officials and scientists. Hitler studied American eugenics laws…Hitler proudly told his comrades just how closely he followed the progress of the American eugenics movement. I have studied with great interest,’ he told a fellow Nazi, ‘the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock.’ Hitler wrote a fan letter to American eugenic leader Madison Grant calling his race-based eugenics book, ‘The Passing of the Great Race’ his Bible.”

The successes of Nazi eugenics caught the attention of eugenicists across America, with California eugenicists republishing “Nazi propaganda for American consumption” (Black). California eugenicists also organized scientific exhibits for Nazi scientists (1934). Black further notes: “More than just providing the scientific roadmap, America funded Germany’s eugenic institutions. By 1926, Rockefeller had donated some $410, 000…to hundreds of German researchers. In May 1926, Rockefeller awarded $250,000 to the German Psychiatric Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute…Among the leading psychiatrists at the German Psychiatric Institute was Ernst Rudin, who became director and eventually an architect of Hitler’s systematic medical repression.”

“Another in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute’s eugenic complex of institutions was the institute for Brain Research,” Black continues. “Since 1915, it had operated out of a single room. Everything changed when Rockefeller money arrived in 1929. A grant of $317,000 allowed the Institute to construct a major building and take center stage in German race biology. The Institute received additional grants from the Rockefeller Foundation during the next several years. Leading the Institute, once again, was Hitler’s medical henchman Ernst Rudin. Rudin’s organization became a prime director and recipient of the murderous experimentation and research conducted on Jews, Gypsies and others."

Black concludes: “A special recipient of Rockefeller funding was the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin. For decades, American eugenicists had craved twins to advance their research into heredity. The Institute was now prepared to undertake such research on an unprecedented level… At the time of Rockefeller's endowment, Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, a hero in American eugenics circles, functioned as a head of the Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. Rockefeller funding of that Institute continued both directly and through other research conduits during Verschuer's early tenure.

“In 1935, Verschuer left the Institute to form a rival eugenics facility in Frankfurt that was much heralded in the American eugenic press. Research on twins in the Third Reich exploded, backed up by government decrees. Verschuer wrote in ‘Der Erbarzt,’ a eugenic doctor's journal he edited, that Germany's war would yield a ‘total solution to the Jewish problem’…

“Mengele began searching the boxcar arrivals for twins. When he found them, he performed beastly experiments, scrupulously wrote up the reports and sent the paperwork back to Verschuer's institute for evaluation. Often, cadavers, eyes and other body parts were also dispatched to Berlin's eugenic institutes.

“Rockefeller executives never knew of Mengele. With few exceptions, the foundation had ceased all eugenic studies in Nazi-occupied Europe before the war erupted in 1939. But by that time the die had been cast. The talented men Rockefeller and Carnegie financed, the institutions they helped found, and the science it helped create took on a scientific momentum of their own.

“After the war, eugenics was declared a crime against humanity–an act of genocide. Germans were tried and they cited the California statutes in their defense. To no avail. They were found guilty…

“Human genetics' genocidal roots in eugenics were ignored by a victorious generation that refused to link itself to the crimes of Nazism and by succeeding generations that never knew the truth of the years leading up to war. Now governors of five states, including California have issued public apologies to their citizens, past and present, for sterilization and other abuses spawned by the eugenics movement…”

Black’s account is merely one of many well-documented scholarly works on the subject. Fortunately or unfortunately, such accounts expose America’s indirect complicity in fostering the German racist national character and how that racist national character came to define German eugenics and the Holocaust itself. Mr. Baidoo did not find it necessary to bring these facts to the attention of his readership. Alas, many questions about the Second World War and the Holocaust remain unresolved or shrouded in history. Even the actual number of Jews who supposedly died in the Holocaust remains an unresolved conundrum, a heated question being debated in the international community today!

And finally, Mr. Baidoo may not have been aware that a significant percentage of the wealth Hitler and the Nazis stole from Jews in Germany and across Europe, part of which they hid in Switzerland, were hidden in America and are still here (Finkelstein). In a related context the capitalist Swiss, their banks, and their links to Nazi stolen treasure and the Vatican, Western investments in Nazi Germany, propaganda campaigns staged by the governments of Canada, Britain and Australia aimed at concealing Nazi war criminals living among their citizens, knowledge that the British and Americans had known about the Holocaust as far back as 1941, and successful attempts by American and British code-breakers of Swiss banks to conceal Nazi gold transfers as a protective cover for America’s intelligence boss Allen Dulles, etc., completely left out of Mr. Baidoo’s naïve account (Aarons & Loftus).

On the other hand other scholars argue that the British intelligence/government had known about the Holocaust as early as September 1939 but chose to do nothing about it. The British sent a cache of comprehensive intelligence information to their American counterparts in 1942, the same year President Franklin D. Roosevelt publicly pleaded for solid information on what the Nazis were doing to Jews. The Americans, like the British before them, did not act on the intelligence reports and suppressed it (Grose). Yet Eleanor Roosevelt, President Roosevelt’s wife, and some prominent American politicians did not take it at all lightly when W.E.B. Du Bois took the American government to the United Nations (UN) and petitioned it to look into the manner African Americans were being unfairly treated and terrorized across America. Eleanor was the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Commission supervised the draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She was also a national board member of the NAACP.

And in spite of the fact she supported some African American causes, her husband President Roosevelt, on the other hand, refused to support a bill meant to criminalize lynching. His primary objection to the bill was antagonizing Southerners if he had supported the bill and losing the Southern vote at the polls on that account. This was in 1935, about seven years prior to British intelligence officials handing over Nazi secrets on the Holocaust to his administration, which he failed to act on anyway.

Could it be that President Roosevelt viewed Jews and Africans the way Hitler did? This is a controversial question because by not defending a bill that would have criminalized lynching and possibly saved some African-American lives, President Roosevelt indirectly lent his support to the act, though he did not literally send African Americans to gas chambers and extermination camps as in the case of Hitler. But lynching sent some African Americans to the gas chambers and extermination camps in the American South: Their painful and horrendous deaths in the pits of American racism!

Unfortunately Jewish organizations and leaders have not mustered moral and political courage to go after the American government as they did with European government and corporations (Finkelstein). Evidently, it appears Jewish leaders do not want to lose America's support for the State of Israel and to betray the bond America has always shared with World Jewry, given what the former [America] did for the latter [World Jewry] during and after the Second World War. The other important questions are: Who financed Hitler and the Nazis? Which countries re-armed Nazi Germany and which countries helped build and expand Hitler’s technological base? Which American, British, and French corporations supported and benefited from the Nazis? How were Nazi profits repatriated back to their American owners? What role did Wall Street play in the rise of Hitler and the Nazis? How did the capitalists of the West finance and benefit from Hitler’s National Socialism? How many of the people killed during the Second World War were actually killed by the US, USSR, Japan, France, Britain, and others besides Nazi Germany?

These are important simple questions Mr. Baidoo’s articles did not delve into, though the answers are already in the public domain in the form of archival and declassified records from Russia, America, Britain, Germany, Japan, and France, as well as in scholarly publications. Mr. Baidoo may have been unaware that governments and multinational corporations from the capitalist West, including Britain where he lives, traded with socialist Nazi Germany during the war (WW2), what one writer aptly refers to as “the Nazi-American plot 1933-1949” (Higham). Perhaps more suspiciously, we were not educated on the specifics of the capitalist connection to the Holocaust and the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. For instance, “The Dearborn Independent” or “The Ford International Weekly,” a paper Henry Ford, the famous American industrialist and automotive manufacturer, owned published the anti-Semitic “The Intentional Jew” series that was later compiled into a book.

The book and its newspaper series influenced an entire generation of German youths would become part of the Nazi machinery. Hitler read them also and “The International Jew” influenced and informed his authorship of “Mein Kampf” as well as of Nazi politics (Of course Nazism had been around before Hitler’s birth as well as in a number of nations. Namely, he did not invent Nazism. Nazism had existed under various guises in places such as the United States (slavery and Jim Crowism), post-Columbian America (extermination of Native Americans), Australia (extermination of Australian Aborigines), Africa (extermination of the Herero and Namaqua; Apartheid), and Western Europe prior to Hitler’s birth). Regarding the parenthetic statement however, one author notes: “The anti-Semitism obsession of the Nazis, if not necessarily the German populace, is demonstrable even before Hitler. As Breitman puts it: ‘Even Hitler and Himmler could not know then how far or how soon they would be able to pursue their emotional impulses and ideological goals. But they knew that they needed manpower…for what they considered a political-racial war’” (Grose).

This fact and others like it invalidate the misguided notion that Hitler invented Nazism. In fact, Ford is the only American mentioned in “Mein Kampf.” Hitler kept a copy of the book in his private library, having been cited as one among a collection of books to shape his life (Ryback). Hitler also kept “a life-size portrait of Ford next to his desk” (Dobbs). Finally, he [Hitler] awarded Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle (July 1938), Germany’s national highest decoration for non-Germans (Dobbs). Beyond these basic facts, the Ford Motor Company established joint ventures with the company I.G. Farben, a German concern. I.G. Farben produced and marketed a poison gas Zyklon B, an invention by Fritz Haber, a Jew, and his team of scientists/researchers, (see also the “I.G. Farben Trial”) used in extermination camps and gas chambers (Borkin; Jeffreys), leading to the deaths of millions.

Also John D. Rockefeller, another famous American capitalist, was reportedly involved with I.G. Farben through his companies Standard Oil Co. Inc. (and Esso Corp). I.G. Farben was one of the largest and most influential companies in the world and therefore its tentacles spread out into every corner of the world, whose directorship, scientists, and researchers teamed up with other capitalist industrialists from Western Europe in several ventures. Perhaps the surprising aspect of this shameful legacy beyond the deep ties American (and Western European) capitalist industrialists and corporations had with Hitler’s war machine and the general leadership of Nazi Germany (Riemann) is a little-known fact involving a capitalist- or privately-owned company’s contractual engagement with the Nazis that culminated in the company constructing and running some of Hitler’s concentration camps (Borkin). Again capitalism, profit motivation, human medical experimentation (eugenics), the Holocaust, slave labor, and Nazi politics (Lindner) are totally ignored in Mr. Baidoo’s articles.

Neither did Mr. Baidoo address the frustration and opposition, one American lawyer sent by the American government to Germany to decartelize Germany, had to endure at the hands of men with ties to Wall Street’s and German corporations (Martin). These “hidden” facts are gradually coming out as research into factors leading to the Holocaust and the Second World War intensifies. The facts are actually there in the public domain but academic or establishment historians, particularly in America, are trained to look elsewhere rather than directly into the face of Holocaust and Second World War historiographies, archival and declassified records. This is fast changing as some of these academic and establishment historians are turning away from the methodological parochialism of their academic professions towards a more inclusive methodology of historicism and comparative valuation of nonconventional historical material.

We can therefore understand why some lay writers and readership miss out on such important facts of history. Yet capitalism was right there in the midst of carnage, human suffering and mass murder, misery, wars, slave labor, exterminations, and so on, reaping untold profits. Even so, we still may want to ask: Why then did Mr. Baidoo delink the capitalists from the National Socialists of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, exterminations camps, and concentration camps?

We should not overlook the essential fact that the National Socialists of Nazi Germany endorsed some of the core features of capitalism such as private ownership, while dismissing German communists. It has been suggested in some of the academic literature on the subject that capitalist America preferentially financed the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in order to prevent German communists from taking over the country. We clearly see a confirmation of this suggestion with the advent and subsequent unraveling of the so-called “Operation Paperclip” at the onset of the Cold War (Jacobsen; Lichtblau; Loftus).

Then also it has been suggested through another alternative theory that the Soviet strategically played German communists against their social democrat colleagues in the hope the strategy would give a competitive advantage to the former in electoral outcomes, although, eventually, that strategy worked in Hitler’s favor by turning it into a numerical edge, bringing him and the Nazis to power. It therefore goes without saying that the factors that projected Hitler and the Nazis are many and varied, though not as naïve and simplistic as some writers would want to claim. Soviet and American politics of manipulation (this will intensify during the Cold War), dire economic conditions following the Treaty of Versailles, anti-Semitism and Henry Ford’s propaganda machine (“The International Jew”), intra-continental mutual jealousies, struggles for continental dominance, ideological clashes among Marxism and capitalism and fascism, and other historical reasons.

Above all, what is also certain as argued by some historians is that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order requiring the federal government to do everything within its power to rescue European Jews, but the pressure mounted by big American corporations in the aftermath of the signing of the executive decree rendered the executive order inactive. In other words capitalism triumphed over human suffering. Another theory goes that the Nazi propaganda machine and other media organs made it known to the world that the Allies were fighting on behalf of Jews. And since the British and the Americans did not want to be identified with that charge, strategically refrained from acting on intelligence pointing to what the Nazis were doing to the Jews (Grose). This well-documented fact is hardly mentioned in mainstream coverage of the Holocaust as well as of the links shared amongst capitalism, the Holocaust, the rise of Hitler and Nazism, and the advent of the Second World War.

The foregoing shows how much Mr. Baidoo left out of the background history of "Mein Kampf, namely the historical connections among the African Holocaust (German extermination of the Herero and the Namaqua. This took place before the Jewish Holocaust took off). We should be equally mindful of the colonial roots of Nazism and eugenic experiments in Africa, Namibia), Nazi mistreatment of Jews (we should not exclude the Roma/Gypsies, the handicapped, homosexuals, capitalists, and “communists” in the Holocaust), Jewish complicity in the Holocaust, America's corporate links to the Holocaust and Hitler and Nazi Germany, “Mein Kampf,” and black/African suffering under Nazi Germany (Lusane), and so on.

The story and the historical record are not all that rosy, however. Thousands of Nazis came to America after the Second World War as “refugees” though many were war criminals having been involved in the Final Solution, but American officials protected some of them and then deploying them in various capacities as scientists, intelligence assets, engineers, spies, doctors, and so on. The American military, the Central Investigation Agency (CIA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) benefited from their services (Lichtblau). Readers interested in this question can read more about “Operation Paperclip," a program under which the American government headed by Harry S. Truman brought in nearly 1,600 German technicians, scientists, engineers, doctors, etc., to live and work in America, after the (American government) had given them new identities, granted them securities clearances (their criminal pasts erased), and their membership in the Nazi Party been expunged immigration documents (Lasby; Jacobson).

There also exists a detailed discussion of America’s recruitment of Nazis and fascists and collaborators of Nazis and fascists to work for America in various capacities in post-Second World War (Simpson). The Australian government, for instance, has known about the existence of Nazi war criminals in the country for decades and yet largely kept quiet about them (Mark Aarons). Some have however speculated that some of the research work done by these Nazi German scientists, now in America, in the area of biological and chemical weapons was tested on African Americans. All these do not in any way justify the Holocaust. Still, Mr. Baidoo should have approached Hitler from the standpoint of comparative methodology in which he also discussed the Catholic Church, the Asiento, the enslavement and extermination of Native Americans and Australian Aborigines, and the enslavement of Africans (Casas; Kiernan) and the role these activities played in developing Western capitalism. Mr. Baidoo’s articles completely ignored Jim Crowism, Nazism, and Apartheid.

That is, we are completely left in the dark about Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of Apartheid, and his possible connections to Nazism and Jim Crowism and free market fundamentalists, such as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, propping that diabolical regime. There have been some speculations that Verwoerd designed Apartheid in line with German eugenics, when he studied in Germany, and with Nazi ideology. He may have also have picked up some new ideas about Jim Crowism in America where he studied. Jim Crowism may have informed his creation of Apartheid. In the main Mr. Baidoo did not mention those diabolical scientists, like the Japanese Shiro Ishii, whom the Americans spared in the aftermath of the Second World War (WW2) in exchange for freely sharing their research findings with Americans. This happened in the case of some of the Nazi scientists Americans brought to work in the United States after the war.

LESSONS FROM “MEIN KAMPF” AND THE HOLOCAUST FOR TODAY

Hitler’s controversial book “Mein Kampf” has been at the center of political studies in many institutions. It has shaped the direction of post-Second World War politics, including politics of the Cold War, international relations, German politics and foreign policy strategies, genocide research and scholarship, to mention but a few. For us in Ghana and Africa it has immediate political and sociological relevance in how we live together and respect each other as a people. We are referring to tolerance.

Today in Ghana we have politicians who call on one ethnic group (Asantes) to slaughter other ethnic groups (Gas and Ewes). In Rwanda, it [Rwandan Genocide] began as soon as Hutu Militants (hardliners) and their sympathizers started calling the Tutsis, their fellow brothers and sisters, “cockroaches,” “insects,” “inferior,” and “pests.” Hutu hardliners subsequently called for the extermination of the Tutsis. Yet some of us do not see striking parallels between the behavior of the Nazis/Hutu hardliners and the Holocaust/Rwandan Genocide. This is regrettable for a number of reasons. The Rwandan Genocide in turn spilled into Eastern Congo where the seemingly unending political instability has created ample opportunities for multinational corporations from the capitalist West, particularly America, to cash in on vital minerals it needs for its production of cars, phones, space technology, computers, and the like, without paying taxes to the central government of the Congo.

Not many people are aware that some of the men among the Hutu hardliners directed some of their well-placed sympathizers to register Tutsis in certain Rwandan localities to guarantee their easy identification and swift extermination. This is similar to the task the Nazis gave the Judenrat (“Jewish Council of Elders”) across Europe, at least in those places the Germans occupied during the Second World War. The later discovery of Nazi documents (the Holocaust, eugenics, etc.) in the hands of Hutu hardliners (Kiernan) reinforces Hitler’s legacy and what uncritical imitation of foreign ideas can do to a people. Hutu hardliners and their sympathizers slaughtered the Tutsis and moderate Hutus with a ferocity probably matched by that of the Nazis in their extermination of Gypsies (properly called the Roma), Jews, and others.

The industrial scale of the Nazi extermination camps and gas chambers guaranteed the efficiency of their killing machines (recall that Edwin Black traces the concept of “gas chamber” to American eugenics).

What is more, it is also hardly known by many an individual that Hitler regretted publishing that book as it began giving him problems once he became his country’s Chancellor. It has been reported of Hitler telling his former lawyer Hans Frank in 1938 that “if he had known in 1924 that he was going to become chancellor, he would never have written his book” (Breitman). This is good but his later actions and the publication of “Zweites Buch,” the sequel to “Mein Kampf” which he thought wise never to publish as he did with “Mein Kampf” for fear of additional problems accruing to his chancellorship, cast some doubts on the sincerity of his admission to his lawyer. Anyone who has seen excerpts or even cursorily read portions of “Zweites Buch,” discovered and published by historian Gerhard Weinberg in 1961, would have known that Hitler and the Nazis held the Soviet Union and America in as much contempt perhaps as they did World Jewry.

“Zweites Buch” and “Mein Kampf” define Hitler’s foreign policy strategies for Nazi Germany and the new Germany he intended creating under Nazism. This new Germany is not substantively different from the kind of world White Supremacist William L. Pierce, the founder of the National Alliance, created in his novels “The Turner Diaries (1978)” and “Hunter (1989).”

There is a demoralizing paradox which Hitler’s genocidal instinct gave birth to, which is destroying the high-level industrialization, development, growth, and technical advancement his leadership, even if we are against his racial politics, brought to Germany, Europe, and the rest of the world. German Jews were part and parcel of this golden age of technical advancement of German society. Hitler reversed this golden age. On the other hand, what the Rwandan Genocide has done to the future of Rwanda is incalculable in monetary and psychological terms. The recent xenophobic slaughter of non-native South Africans in South Africa and killings associated with partisan politics in Ghana bespeak the danger intolerance, coupled with historical animosities and poor economic management of national resources and bad leadership and social inequality, breeds in a fragile political economy. A fragile political economy such as the one the Treaty of Versailles created for Germany on account of the reparations burden partially contributed to the rise of Nazism and with it Hitler.

Again some of us are not quick enough to discern a link between the political sentiments undergirding Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and the politics of Boko Haram, Al-Shabab, and the Lord’s Resistance Army. What these terrorist organizations have done is to replace Jews, communists, Gypsies (the Roma), capitalists, the handicapped, Slavs, and other alleged inferior human beings in “Mein Kampf” with non-Muslims and political opponents, the latter in the particular case of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Across Africa politicians are doing similarly via political ethnocentrism and ethnic nationalism. The winner-takes-all democratic capitalism Africa blindly copied from the West reinforces the moral and political paradox inherent in “Mein Kampf.” Yet Germany has recovered from her past blunders and has risen to lead Europe. Why is it that Africa and some of her politicians are assuming that shameful past blunders of Germany by creating the Boko Harams, the Al-Shababs, the Hutu hardliners, and the Lord’s Resistance Armys?

The irony of it all points to other interesting facts. The behavior of Western and non-Western conservative capitalists and the latter’s opposition to concerns raised about the environmental, social justice, equality, women’s issues, responsible capitalism, corporate social responsibility, gun control among many others, reeks of neo-Nazism. The rancid rhetoric of free market fundamentalists such as Lush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly instantiates this social and political paradox. In this light Ghana and Africa can do better than the racist, xenophobic, and social Darwinist prescriptions Hitler advanced in “Mein Kampf” and “Zweites Buch.” After all Hitler and the Nazis did not initiate the Holocaust by constructing gas chambers, concentration and extermination camps.

They began with coordinated staged rhetoric of acidic hatred much as the Hutu Militants and their sympathizers did. Osei Marfo’s outrageous outbursts on ethnocentric regionalism or balkanization, Akufo-Addo’s “All Die Be Die” war cry, and the Zulu King whose xenophobic utterances led to the unfortunate murder of Africans in South Africa all have their negative views imbued with the political character of neo-Nazism. Unfortunately, in some parts of our little world in particular and the world in general it is the political sentiments of “Mein Kampf” and “Zweites Buch” that are gradually coming back in full swing both in subtle and explicit ways. Neo-Nazism need not always have a white face. We have seen that in the persons of Idi Amin, Omar Bashir, Emperor Bokassa, Mobuto Sese Seko, Francisco Nguema, Gnassingbe Eyadema, Joseph Kony, and Charles Taylor…Yoweri Museveni had this to say about Hitler, his hero:

“As Hitler did to bring Germany together, we should also do it here. Hitler was a smart guy, but he went a bit too far for wanting to conquer the world” (The Shariat, Vol. 2, No. 15, April 15-21).

An American-based Ugandan writer and journalist, a friend of ours, implicates Museveni and his capitalist friends from the West in plundering the mineral wealth of Eastern Congo (Allimadi):

“Yet Congolese remain impoverished. Foreign powers allow bandits financed by Rwanda and Uganda to wreak havoc in Congo's eastern region, which contains most of its resources. Under this planned chaos, private corporations enjoy absolute rent; they siphon off Congo's resources through Rwanda and Uganda without paying fees or taxes to the central government.”

Just look at what an African admirer of Hitler and his bloodsucking capitalist vampires doing to Africa and her people!

CONCLUSION
In the end, Mr. Baidoo may have to revise his tattered notes on the history of the Holocaust, including but not limited to, America's contributions to the rise of Nazi Germany and the fact that the Holocaust in Europe began its journey with deep colonial taproots in South West Africa (Namibia). Mr. Baidoo needs to read more on this subject matter. We should like to ask in conclusion: Should Mr. Baidoo not have seen any wisdom in pursuing the speculation that Evan Braun, Hitler’s mistress and then wife, could have descended from Ashkenazi Jews as DNA analysis seems to indicate? Or that Hitler may have had Jewish and possibly African ancestors? We need a better, more nutritious history than the fast-food histories we are currently being fed with.

Usually intellectual obesity, or should we rather say mental atrophy, and debilitating psychological disease states are the end results of agitprop revisionist history of the kind daily propagated on Ghanaweb and other Ghanaian-based fora. Fortunately some of us and several others know better than to fall for these antiquated Hitlerite gimmicks. We are no longer in gas chambers, concentration and exterminations where we are being forced to read Henry Ford’s “The International Jews.”

We shall return…
Additional References
1) "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur" (Ben Kiernan)

2) "The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and The Colonial Roots of Nazism" (this text deals with the Herero and Namaqua Genocide; readers may also want to read the Whitaker Report (United Nations, 1985)

3) "Hitler’s Black Victim’s: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, African and African-Americans During the Nazi Era" (Clarence Lusane)

4) "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler" (Anthony C.Sutton)

5) "Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust" (Edwin Black)

6) “IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Corporation" (Expanded Version; Edwin Black)

7) “War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race” (Expanded Version; Edwin Black)

8) “The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics” (An article published in the History News Network (HNN) by Edwin Black (2003)

9) "The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of the Century-Wall Street and the Rise of the Fourth Reich (Glen Yeadon)

10) "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present" (Harriet Washington)

11) "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War 2" (Douglas Blackmon)

12) "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" (Michelle Alexander)

13) "Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation" (Isaiah Trunk)

14) "Project Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America" (Annie Jacobsen).

15) “Sanctuary: Nazi Fugitives in Australia” (Mark Aarons)

16) “Hitler’s Private Library: The Books that Shaped his Life” (Timothy W. Ryback)

17) “Ford and GM Scrutinized for Alleged Nazi Collaboration” (Michael Dobbs; The Washington Post, July 30, 1998)

18) “Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew” (Richard Breitman)

20) “America’s Nazi Secret: An Insider’s History” (John Loftus)

21) “Hell’s Cartel: I.G. Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine” (Diarmuid Jeffreys)

22) “The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben” (Joseph Borkin)

23) “Patents for Hitler” (Guenter Riemann)

24) “Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and the Swiss Banks” (Mark Aarons & John Loftus)

25) “Inside I.G. Farben: Hoechst During the Third Reich” (Stephen H. Lindner)

26) “All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System” (James S. Martin)

27) “Hitler’s Willing Spin Doctors” (Peter Grose; The New York Times, Feb. 28, 1999)

28) “The Choice is Clear: Africa Must Embrace Nkrumah’s Vision and United” (Milton Allimadi; Black Star News, May 26, 2013)