I mngt och mycket levde Churchill upp till den nidbild av Hitler som brukar mlas upp. Churchill var lngt ifrn humanist och srskilt kristen var han knappast. Det genomsyrade hela hans personlighet och politiska karrir.
Bland annat var Churchill en ivrig anhngare av rashygien:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardia...features11.g21
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Ursprungligen postat av Winston Churchill
"The unnatural and increasingly rapid rise of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed up before another year has passed."
Churchill to Asquith, 1910
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Home Secretary Winston Churchill, an enthusiastic supporter of eugenics, reassured one group of eugenicists that Britain's 120,000 feeble-minded persons "should, if possible, be segregated under proper conditions so that their curse died with them and was not transmitted to future generations." The plan called for the creation of vast colonies.Thousands of Britain's unfit would be moved into these colonies to live out their days. [Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003), p. 215.]
Churchill talade liksom Hitler om judarnas avgrande inflytande inom bolsjevismen och vnsterradikala rrelser, sdant som idag r "antisemitiskt" att ppeka. Skillnaden var att Hitler valde att p allvar motstta sig judarna.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Bolshevism
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In the early 1920s, a leading British antisemite, Henry Hamilton Beamish, stated that Bolshevism was the same thing as Judaism.[33] In the same decade, future wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill penned an editorial entitled "Zionism versus Bolshevism," which was published in the Illustrated Sunday Herald. In the article, he stated that Jewish involvement in the various recent worldwide revolutionary movements (namely Communism) was a function of their character:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardia...features11.g21
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Ursprungligen postat av Winston Churchill
This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States)... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."
Writing on 'Zionism versus Bolshevism' in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 1920
Churchill var grovt och sllsynt rasistisk ven fr sin tid, inte minst med tanke p vilken position han hade.
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Churchill's racial assumptions occupied a prime place both in his political philosophy and in his views on international relations. He was a convinced white supremacist and thought in terms of race to a degree that was remarkable even by the standards of his own time. He spoke of certain races with a virulent Anglo-Saxon triumphalism which was wholly lacking in other 20th century prime ministers, and in a way which even as early as the 1920's shocked some cabinet colleagues. [Roberts, Eminent Churchillians (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), pp. 211; Michael Lind, op.cit.]
T.ex. ansg Churchill att indierna var det primitivaste folket p jorden nst efter tyskarna och han gav grna uttryck fr det, bl.a. till Indiens statssekreterare Leo Amery som i sin tur sade sig inte se ngon strre skillnad mellan Churchill och Hitler angende mnniskosynen.
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/...ns_654582.html
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Churchill had a profound contempt of native Indians especially Mahatma Gandhi who for him came to represent a "malignant subversive fanatic" and a "thoroughly evil force." He had remarked in a conversation, "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
Den imperialistiske britten och demokraten uttryckte helt enkelt det djupaste frakt ven fr indianer och andra som han sg som undermnniskor:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardia...features11.g21
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Ursprungligen postat av Winston Churchill
"I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place."
Churchill to Palestine Royal Commission, 1937
Efter kriget sg Churchill icke-vit invandring frn kolonierna som det strsta hotet mot England och han var fljaktligen starkt emot invandring av negrer. Churchill planerade en kampanj vars slogan skulle lyda
"Keep England White!", och detta var allts under en tid d Martin Luther King brjade komma p tapeten.
http://www.deuceofclubs.com/books/23..._churchill.htm
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Colored immigration weighed heavily on his mind. Churchill told one interviewer, "I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take notice." Writes Hennessey, "Just as [Churchill] was distressed by the break-up of the British Empire, he was, for all his imperial romance, deeply disturbed about its black or brown members coming to the mother country."
Future prime minister Harold Macmillan, in his diary entry on the Cabinet meeting of January 20, 1955, wrote: "More discussion about the West Indian immigrants. A Bill is being draftedbut it's not an easy problem. P.M. [Churchill] thinks 'Keep England White' a good slogan!" [Peter Catterall, ed., The MacMillian Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950-1957 (London: MacMillan, 2004), p. 382.]
Att Churchill var en blodtrstig krigshetsare utan like under hela frsta halvan av 1900-talet ska ses i ljuset av hans attityder. Bland det mest belysande torde Churchills initiering av terrorbombning under andra vrldskriget vara. Jag skrev utfrligt om det i ett annat inlgg:
https://www.flashback.org/sp37340504
Churchill beundrade Adolf Hitlers patriotism och bedrifter, skillnaden var att de var konkurrenter i spelet om maktbalansen i Europa.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardia...features11.g21
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Ursprungligen postat av Winston Churchill
One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as admirable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations."
From his Great Contemporaries, 1937
Det r inte s att Hitler var en vrre krighetsare eller imperialist n Churchill, snarare tvrtom. Jag skrev mer om det i en annan trd:
https://www.flashback.org/p37077841#p37077841
Frgan r nr den allmnrdande lgnaktiga bilden av Churchill som en myspysfarbror och 1900-talets stora hjlte p allvar kommer att nyanseras. Sjlv var han efter kriget rdd fr att framtidens dom mot honom skulle bli hrd:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-an...tion-1951-1965
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Ursprungligen postat av Winston Churchill
Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them... Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.
