Fr Danusha Goska Analysis

In her essay, Prof. Danusha Goska states her claim that “Nazism alone is necessary and sufficient support for Nazi crimes. Nazism was not only not Christian, it was Neo-Pagan, Nationalist and Social Darwinist, and overtly anti-Christan.” Following this statement, she goes on to list several primary sources and other facts to support her claim. Her first major piece of evidence presented is the claim that Nazism had its birth in the late 18th century with the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder who helped to promote Nationalism, which attributed Supernatural qualities to one's ethnicity and believed that ethics were to be based on ethnicity. Next, Prof. Goska provides multiple quotes from head Nazi official Heinrich Himmler. Some of these quotes such as “the violent relegation to the dustbin of any Good-Samaritan-style compassion for ethnic others,” “the new understanding of ethnic others as animals to be exploited or disease to be extirpated,” “the championing of one's own ethnicity,” and the finding of transcendence in offspring and ancestors, to replace the …show more content…
Danusha Goska defends Martin Luther against the idea that he inspired hate crimes against the Jews by the Nazis. She first makes the claim that Nazism began with German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder and his beliefs in Nationalism, which called for ethics to be based on one's ethnicity and claimed that ethnicity had supernatural power. Additionally, she follows this up with direct quotes from Heinrich Himmler. These quotes call for a replacing of God with one's ethnicity and Nature and the uplifting of a genocidal killer as a hero along with describing Christianity as a disease and the idea that it is a crime against Germany to worry about non-Germanic people their problems. These ideas are extremely anti-Christian, which would contradict the ideals that Martin Luther helped to promote during the