George Bernard Shaw Defends Hitler, Mass Murder

From GB Shaw on YouTube: In this clip from the 2008 film "The Soviet Story", we see that George Bernard Shaw, the celebrated progressive playwright defended Hitler, advocated killing those who can't justify their existence and called for the development of lethal gas 10 years before the national socialists in Germany did exactly that.Show more

George Bernard Shaw was one of the left's most revered figures and the only person to win both an Oscar and a Nobel prize.

In this clip Snore documents three points that many viewers find disturbing:

1. Shaw was a vocal supporter of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini
2. Shaw supported mass killing of the unproductive
3. Shaw advocated creating a Zyklon-B type gas to allow more "humane" mass killing

The historical record for these claims is clear, but many posters dispute the second point by stating (without support) that Shaw was being sarcastic or even joking. Unfortunately, this is clearly not the case as is obvious from reading Shaw's writings and public comments in the broad context of the time they were written.

When Shaw's controversial statements on eugenics were reported in the media, he did not dispute them or claim that the quotes were taken out of context.

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