redridinghoodrat
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Let me try and go at each point one by one:If the British didn't colonize India, you wouldn't be alive to have this discussion, because of the butterfly effect. NO point in using that argument.
And even if Hitler did succeed, India would get freedom earlier than 1947. The Congress was a functional government since the 1920s. More likely than not Bangladesh and Pakistan would be part of India. Tho I don't know if that would make India better or worse.
Nice one. You forgot "Roma". I'm pretty sure Roma were the largest ethnic group that Hitler mass murdered. How many SubSaharan Africans were actually in Europe? I guarantee you the allies killed way more Africans than Hitler ever did.
Yes Hitler murdered all the above groups. But he also murdered the people(French, Dutch, British), who were murdering Black, Muslims, Asians and Indians in even greater numbers. So we would have to subtract the deaths that the Europeans caused during WW2.
British killed 800000(Low range) Indians in Bengals. Hitler killed 500000(high range) Roma in Europe. If Hitler destroyed the UK before the famine, he would save 800000 Indians. 800000-500000 = 200000. One could interpret this as saying Hitler was trying to save hundreds of thousands of Indians.
No. But I can relate to the people who were ethnically cleansed in my country, and feel less sympathy the Europeans being killed, while they were killing my people. Obviously I care more about my people than foreigners
Hitler would have killed every non Nordic Aryan if he could. BUT he couldn't. The he couldn't is the key part.
Assuming you were living in 1940s Madras, and you were educated, you would be cheering for Hitler to crush the British, cause you don't know when a famine would strike Madras, and the British would redirect supplies. Sure Hitler would want to kill you. But his German army wouldn't have been able to project in India.
If you are from people who were colonized by the British, French or Dutch, it makes no sense to not be a Hitler supporter. I'm honestly surprised more non Nazi Hitler/Axis supporters don't exist.
1. "And even if Hitler did succeed, India would get freedom earlier than 1947. The Congress was a functional government since the 1920s. More likely than not Bangladesh and Pakistan would be part of India. Tho I don't know if that would make India better or worse"
a. Hitler was not looking to actually decolonize India. He viewed British rule of India as something the Nazis should emulate and he viewed the British administration of India as the only thing keeping the country from falling into chaos (Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944pg. 413). Even when Subash Chandra Bose was appointed in positions of power, he was not looked at as a viable partner or ally due to his lack of popularity within India. Moreover, supporting decolonisation would not make sense from his logic: if Aryans were the superior race, why would they need to collaborate with lower races? And if they needed to, why not collaborate with the Jews instead of extermination?
b. The Congress was not a functional government by 1920. They could not administer law, collect tax or do anything a functional government does. What they were a massively organised opposition to the British administration which threatened their stability of rule.
c. This is irrelevant to the actual argument and was the result of grievances prior to British partition between Muslims and Hindus in India.
2. "Nice one. You forgot "Roma". I'm pretty sure Roma were the largest ethnic group that Hitler mass murdered. How many SubSaharan Africans were actually in Europe? I guarantee you the allies killed way more Africans than Hitler ever did.
Yes Hitler murdered all the above groups. But he also murdered the people(French, Dutch, British), who were murdering Black, Muslims, Asians and Indians in even greater numbers. So we would have to subtract the deaths that the Europeans caused during WW2.
British killed 800000(Low range) Indians in Bengals. Hitler killed 500000(high range) Roma in Europe. If Hitler destroyed the UK before the famine, he would save 800000 Indians. 800000-500000 = 200000. One could interpret this as saying Hitler was trying to save hundreds of thousands of Indians."
a. I used the word etc. to account for any minority that I forgot but the point I was trying to make was Hitler was ready to kill whoever stood in his way, which was not something a rational actor would do and should not be compromised with. Moreover, the Roma genocide directly contradicts your point because the Roma were derived from India and being the major populace murdered; likely meant he WOULDN'T have decolonized India.
b. I'm not denying the Allies likely killed way more Africans than Hitler ever did but Hitler's lack of open condemnation for colonialism and his continued colonialism, expansionism and genocide of ethnic minorities suggests there's nothing Hitler would've done differently to the British or any other European colonial power for that matter.
c. Hitler wouldn't have destroyed Britain because he couldn't as Germany was still far too weak to force a British surrender and also because he viewed the British as fellow Aryans who needed liberation from the failures of parliamentary democracy. He didn't care about the Bengal famine and viewed it as something he should replicate as written before. He was not a supporter of decolonization and was a proponent of colonialism and framing him as anything else is disingenuous at best.
3. "No. But I can relate to the people who were ethnically cleansed in my country, and feel less sympathy the Europeans being killed, while they were killing my people. Obviously I care more about my people than foreigners
Hitler would have killed every non Nordic Aryan if he could. BUT he couldn't. The he couldn't is the key part.
Assuming you were living in 1940s Madras, and you were educated, you would be cheering for Hitler to crush the British, cause you don't know when a famine would strike Madras, and the British would redirect supplies. Sure Hitler would want to kill you. But his German army wouldn't have been able to project in India.
If you are from people who were colonized by the British, French or Dutch, it makes no sense to not be a Hitler supporter. I'm honestly surprised more non Nazi Hitler/Axis supporters don't exist."
a. Your people being colonized, as much of a tragedy it is, must open your eyes to the fact that we can't let something like this happen to anybody let alone ourselves. Once you excuse it for a certain group of people, the perpetrators can justify using it to ANY group of people.
b. If anything, if Hitler crushed the British and assumed control and occupation over it's territories as what happened to Germany OTL, Hitler likely would've used the Hunger Plan he used in Eastern Europe to starve most of his colonies to continue funding expansion or worse just genocide the undesirables and put the rest to work.
c. Why would a victim of colonization just support another colonizer?

