[Y-Indology] Farewell, Mr. Agarwal

[Guest guest]

I should be gratified. The great Her Professor Doktor Weitzel has

deigned to address me. Let us see what he has to say on the matter;

 

INDOLOGY, Michael Witzel <witzel@f...> wrote:

> For all the rhetorics about logic and rigor,

> the good Kaushal is basically misinformed:

>

> 1. In characterizing Fosse as "coming from a continent where such

eminent

> 'nasty-

> ists' were widely prevalent a scant 50 years ago"...

>

> Well, FYI, his homeland, Norway, was occupied, SIXTY years ago by

German

> troops, and of course very much against the will of the population,

who

> resisted quite fiercely.

 

Response - I seem to recall a certain Vidkun Quisling who

collaborated quite eagerly with the Nazi butchers. see for instance

 

http://dove.net.au/~ghurrell/docs/quisling.html

 

"Quisling founded a fascist party, Nasjonal Samling (NS), modelled on

the National Socialists of Germany. There were many similarities of

both ideology and practice, although Quisling maintained that these

were coincidental and were not mere replications of the German model;

for instance NS adopted the Nazi salute in 1934, which Quisling

justified as "the re-establishment of the old Nordic greeting from

the Viking period".8 Quisling did not stop at imitating the Nazis;

there is much evidence to support that he actually collaborated with

them. In the words of Alfred Rosenberg (Nazi ideologist), at a

meeting with Hitler, "[Quisling] again put forward concrete proposal

for preparing a German landing at the request of a new Government

that would be set up."9 In addition, Quisling had informed Hitler

that the western powers were planning, with Norway's consent, to

occupy bases of operation in Norway."10 When Quisling was eventually

put to trial after the war, charges were levelled against him that

concerned these alleged misdeeds, including; the proclamation of

himself as head of government on 9 April 1940, his revocation of the

order for mobilisation; his call for voluntary war efforts in support

of Germany; his complicity in the deportation of Jews from Norway (at

the cost of several hundreds of lives), his responsibility for the

execution of death sentences passed on Norwegian patriots, and a

number of other counts.11 "

 

"Quisling actively encouraged Norwegians to become involved in the

war on the German side, believing that Germany's victory was in fact

Norway's victory. About 6,000 Norwegians served the German war cause,

and 709 of them fell in battle.24 In fact, 10, 262 Norwegian lives

were lost throughout as result of war,25 despite the fact that Norway

had adopted a position of neutrality at the outbreak of war and had

hoped to avoid conflict. "

 

Clearly there were substantial number of Norwegians who were pullng

for "Unsere Heimat" and willing to die for the Nazi cause.

>

> 2. Guilt by association (or relation) --in this case 60 years

later, when

> Fosse wasn't even born-- was a favorite Nazi tactic. You have

just used

> the tactic effectively, for all to see.

> Congratulations! Or should I say, Heil!

 

Response - heil indeed. Remember it was Herr Fosse who is accusing

all of us of being Nazis .What kind of guilt is that ? Guilt by

innuendo ?

>

> 3. It is great scientific news that homo erectus "who are also homo

> sapiens" is still surviving India. Let's go and study those rare

specimens.

 

Response - thank you , always glad to educate the underdeveloped

undereducated and help in eradicating their abysmal ignorance.

 

Kaushal