Yesterday, a discussion took place between me and the artificial intelligence about the Nazi era. It defended the Western view of the Third Reich and accused it of committing crimes and maintaining a dishonorable record. My response was as follows, though I did not complete it due to lack of time, and now I continue it here:
First: The victors’ reading of the Nazi rule after World War II is not impartial. I do not fully exonerate Hitler’s rule, but I am convinced that his period of governance was not as atrocious as the West portrayed it. The Nuremberg Trials were created by the Allies, and only portions of the Nazi state archives that supported the victors’ narrative were published, while most of the archives remain locked in the Pentagon’s vaults and are not accessible to the general public.
Second: Expanding the war to Russia was a strategic mistake by Hitler, just as expanding the war beyond Europe was an error committed by the Nazi generals, led by General Rommel.
Third: As for the concentration camps, from Auschwitz to Dachau, they were—in my view—detention camps, meaning prisons that included both Jews and non-Jews. The number of Jewish casualties is recorded by the Zionist authorities, whereas the number of Russian casualties reached twenty million, yet Moscow did not loudly broadcast a “Russian Holocaust.” What happened in the Third Reich was not open to evaluation by senior Nazi officials themselves, who— in my opinion—are best positioned to judge their own performance, not the victors.
I would also add that Hitler’s record was not entirely failures; he revived Germany, restoring its civilizational strength and vitality, and, in my view, the German society gained through Nazi educational curricula a kind of moral immunity that was absent among the Allies. There is much more to be said about the Nazi era. Hitler’s stance toward the Jews, in my opinion, had its justifications; he did not isolate them from German society arbitrarily, but based on what he considered logical arguments to counter Jewish influence within German society. As for the Gestapo’s practices, they—like all intelligence agencies in the world—have their positives and negatives. If we compare the record of America, Stalinist Russia, and the West’s performance in occupied Palestine, we would find that Nazi rule appears differently.
The reliable sources cited by artificial intelligence as evidence of indictment—whether Nazi German or Nazi archives in the countries they occupied—are, in my view, not necessarily proof of guilt. The very concept of crime is not viewed from the same perspective. They documented what they did, which is natural, and they viewed their actions through the lens of professional and national duty. As for the argument that proving the crimes of one power does not negate the crimes of another, this is true, but it applies only in one case: when peoples not directly affected by the Nazis do not see with the same eyes as the peoples who were occupied by them. In any case, God willing, I will have the opportunity to provide a broader explanation and presentation of the Nazi era.
As for Hitler’s stance toward the Jews as a supposedly inferior race, we Muslims are warned by our Lord in the Holy Qur’an about the Jews, and He considers them among His fiercest enemies
