"Defense Secretary marks D-Day with neo-Nazi screed at cemetery in France
The last living World War II veterans made the journey to France to commemorate the Normandy landings, which mark the beginning of the Allied campaign to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany, but Hegseth’s comments were more geared toward the other side.
World leaders, veterans, and military officials mark the date to honor the sacrifices made by the nearly 160,000 Allied troops who took part in the massive amphibious operation, but US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used the occasion to urge Europe to repel what he termed an 'invasion' of immigration, an expression of the malignant xenophobia and bigotry that defines President Donald Trump’s neo-fascist ideology.
'Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies,' Hegseth said. On 'beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive,' he said. 'When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late?'
This neo-Nazi dog whistle, soaked in crusader fantasy and violent white supremacist panic, constituted Hegseth’s speech at the military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, the site of the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944.
Hegseth’s view that migrants, especially those from Muslim-majority countries, pose cultural or economic threats to European civilization mirrors the Nazi rhetoric about Jews.
'The brave men who stormed the beaches of Normandy were fighting people like you, Pete,' said XR developer, 3D artist, writer, and director J. Dakota Powell, responding to the former Fox News host.
Comparing migrants and refugees to Nazi invaders and inciting violence against them, according to Zeteo News Editor-in-Chief Mehdi Hasan, is, 'straight-up far-right Nazi shit.'"

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Today marks the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, the historic Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, which began the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. The last living World War II veterans made the journey to France to commemorate the Normandy landings, which mark the beginning of theContinue reading "Defense Secretary marks D-Day with neo-Nazi screed at cemetery in France"




