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Poland shall be treated as a colony. . . . In short: the ruthless expansionist policies carried out by Italy in Ethiopia and Libya, Spain in Morocco, the United States in the Philippines, and the Western European democracies of Belgium, Holland, France and England throughout Asia and Africa for more than 100 years were now brought home to Europe by Hitler and applied in an even more brutal form to the Poles (Lindqvist, History, 83).
These colonial policies and practices, along with improved technological and legal means, the accumulation of decades of “race science” and eugenics, made the Nazi genocide of Jews and Roma possible, along with the massive incarcerating and killing of communists and homosexuals, and the incendiary bombing of almost every major city in Europe by both German and Allied planes and rockets. The technology of the civilizing mission had come home to roost. Aimé Césaire speaks of this movement as of “a terrific boomerang effect” inflicted on the European bourgeoisie (Césaire, Discourse , 36), indeed, on the European population at large. It is about them that Césaire comments that before they suffered from Nazism “before they were its victims, they were its accomplices . . . they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, . . . they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because until then, it had been applied only to non- European peoples.” He adds: “Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him” but also that he cannot forgive Hitler for his crime, for the humiliation, for “the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the ‘coolies’ of India, and the “niggers” of Africa” (Césaire, Discourse , 36.) Divide and Rule Airplanes and bombs were only the most recent among the ruling instruments dispensed and deployed by the civilizing mission of Christian Europe upon “colored people.” Law and education, Christian missionaries
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