(Jewish Group) Germany's surging far-right party is trying to attract an unlikely group of voters...

[MosheFeingold]

2. I'm actually familiar with this

Due to a plane ride, sitting next to a German National. (I am a native German speaker.)

Basically, I was told a tale that the nationalistic right (not the same thing as “right” in the USA) in Germany admits freely that the Shoa was a terrible crime and mistake.

Because .... and this is where it gets weird . . . Jewish people are clearly smart and productive and good citizens —- using Israel and the USA as examples of Jewish exceptionalism.

And here is where it gets weirder: they posit that Hitler’s mistake was targeting the Jews, because with the Jews’ brains, Germany would have been unstoppable.

And here it goes off the rails: They view the Africans and Muslims as the new untermenchen (look it up) that need to be expelled.

They blame the violence against Jewish people to be largely a product of Muslims and Africans, with the “rare” white-on-Jew crime being the result of rebellion against repressive anti-white politics in Germany.

The problem is, there are nuggets of half-truths in all this, it frees them from Hitler-guilt, and feeds what is apparently some kind of manifest destiny, writ German.

The EDL (?) in the UK has much the same approach, but without the need to side-step the Shoa — and they have attracted a number of Jewish members who are fearful of persecution by Muslim immigrants.

Anyway, aside from not getting me killed in a concentration camp, I am glad to have Europe long behind me.