I am pleased to let you know that my entire 92-page piece on "War as
Righteous Rape and Purification" is now in full with complete references on
my website <www.psychohistory.com> It includes full evidence of the
childhood origins of wars, the growth-panic group-fantasies that always
precede wars, and a long section documenting how every routine German child
abuse practice in 1900 was later inflicted upon Jews in exact detail. I
invite you to download and read it. It will also appear in the Spring (Vol.
27, No 4) issue of The Journal of Psychohistory. An excerpt appears below.
Lloyd deMause
"Jews, then, were the main poison containers for the restaging of traumatic
German childrearing practices four decades earlier. Every one of the things
done to Jews in the Holocaust can be found to have been perpetrated by
parents and others to German children at the turn of the century. The
precise details of earlier events that were reinflicted upon Jews later are
astonishingly minute and literal. Jews were, of course, murdered by the
millions, just as German children had watched their siblings murdered in
infanticidal acts earlier, using the exact same phrase for the genocide of
Jews-"elimination of useless eaters"-as parents had used earlier for their
infants and children as they murdered them at birth. Because infanticide
rates were so high, the majority of German children would have witnessed
the murder of newborn siblings by their mothers, would have heard the
murdered baby being called a "useless eater," and would themselves have
been called a "useless eater" as children and so could have wondered if
they might also be murdered. One can hardly read a single Holocaust book
without having to wade through endless accounts of children buried alive by
Nazis, "children having their heads beaten in like poultry and thrown into
a smoking pit," "babies thrown from the fourth floor and crushed on the
pavements," "children's bodies lay around, torn in half with the heads
smashed in," "'little Jews' caught on bayonets after being thrown from
upper story windows," etc. Even the specific methods German mothers had
used for killing their newborn-especially smashing the baby against a wall
or throwing it into a latrine-were "a regular occurrence" against Jews in
concentration camps:
When mothers succeeded in keeping their babies with them...a German guard
took the baby by its legs and smashed it against the wall of the barracks
until only a bloody mass remained in his hands. The unfortunate mother had
to take this mass with her to the 'bath.' Only those who saw these things
with their own eyes will believe with what delight the Germans performed
these operations. [Also] SS men used to amuse themselves by swinging Jewish
children by their legs and then flinging them to their deaths. He who threw
a Jewish child farthest won.
Jews were also regularly tied up and made to live in their own filth
exactly as swaddled German infants were earlier. Rarely washed, Germans had
spent their early lives covered with their own excreta, addressed by their
parents simply as "little shitter." In the concentration camps, Jews were
subject to what Des Pres calls a constant "excremental assault," in which
they were forced to defecate and urinate upon each other, were often thrown
into the cesspool if they were too slow, lived in barracks "awash with
urine and feces," walked about "knee-deep in excrement," were forced to eat
their own feces, and finally died in gas chambers "covered all over with
excrement." In one camp, 30,000 women not only had to use a single
latrine, but in addition, "we were permitted to use it only at certain
hours of the day. We stood in line to get into this tiny building,
knee-deep in human excrement." Holocaust scholars, missing the childhood
origins of all these gratuitous excremental cruelties, have been puzzled by
how much of the concentration camp routine was devoted to the endless
humiliations: "Why, if they were going to kill them anyway, what was the
point of all the humiliation, why the cruelty?" Gitta Sereny asked of Franz
Stangl. But of course the humiliation was the point, restaging early
German childhood exactly. Hitler-himself swaddled and left alone in his
feces by his mother-had told Germans in Mein Kampf , "If the Jews were
alone in this world, they would suffocate in dirt and filth." In the
Holocaust the Jews-"so much like us" (Hitler)-would suffocate in dirt and
filth, as all little, helpless German babies did all day long at the hands
of their mothers. And since the "little shitter" German babies were also
covered with lice, vermin and rodents as they lay swaddled in their
cradles, unable to move, Jews too were called "lice, vermin and rats" as
they were locked into the concentration camps, told "This is a death
camp...You'll be eaten by lice; you'll rot in your own shit, you filthy
shitface..." Some guards even restaged the rodent attacks "by inserting a
tube into the victim's anus, or into a woman's vagina, then letting a rat
into the tube. The rodent would try to get out by gnawing at the victim's
internal organs." Later toilet training of German children was also
restaged, often in precise detail, as by having the ghetto-latrine
supervised by a "guard with a big clock, whom the Germans dressed comically
as a rabbi and called the 'shit-master.'"
Every extermination camp reproduced elements of a typical German home. Jews
were not said to be there to be murdered, they were there to be
"housecleaned." Mommy hated her children's "dirtiness," wanted them
"clean," so "dirty Jews" were killed so only "clean Germans" would be left.
Jews were Untermenschen (with overtones of "little people") who were forced
to crawl on the floor naked like babies, and who were tied up, starved,
made to kneel for hours, doused with ice water, terrorized and beaten just
like most German children. The battering of Jews in camps followed the
hallowed German child-beating pattern of making the child "be strong" (not
making the perpetrator feel guilty by crying out):
I dropped to my knees without uttering a sound. I knew what was expected of
me. I looked at the commandant from my knees as he smiled back at me with
approval. He swung the chair at me again, striking me on the shoulder. I
sprawled on the ground, bruised and dizzy, but I still made no sound. He
raised the chair and brought it down on my head, shattering it...I bit my
tongue to stop myself making a sound...I knew that if I made another sound,
nothing could save me. 'Very good, for being strong. You shall be rewarded.
Get some food. Tell them I sent you...' "
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