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How Easy it is for Mankind to Accept Evil--> 1930s Pen Pals
Ann Belinsky /The Lid ^ | 4/21/09 | The Lid

Posted on 04/21/2009 5:40:52 PM PDT by Shellybenoit

What you are about to read is 100% true. Ilse Gerngrofs, Leipzig and Bessie Goldstein were penpals in the mid 1930's. Besse was a Jewess from New Zealand, Ilse a non-Jew growing up during the rise of Nazi Germany. Besse's religion was hidden from Ilse so you can really see the the passage of foolish humanity into the jaws of evil Nazism. Read these letters from Ilse to Besse an realize how easy it is for mankind to fall into the trap of accepting evil and worry about how the world still appeases evil, in the form of Ahmadinijad, Hezballah, Hamas, Abbas and others.

Today I received the following email:

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, and on the day when Ahmadinejad can stand up in Geneva at a UN conference on racism and be given an international podium to lash out his hate against Israel and America, I feel it is important to send you 4 letters written by a 20 year old German girl to a penpal, my mother, in New Zealand, between the years 1933 and 1936. She did not know that my mother was Jewish, thus we have a rare opportunity to see the reaction of the "ordinary "German to the rise of Hitler. I have coloured these parts in blue, and you can see how the mundane chit chat of a young girl becomes more and more entwined with the overtones of the Nazi doctrines. The change in tone over the years in the German woman’s letters is telling and chilling as she describes her adoration and support of Hitler.

(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: evil; holocaust

1 posted on 04/21/2009 5:40:52 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
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To: Shellybenoit

ping


2 posted on 04/21/2009 5:45:30 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Shellybenoit

Yep, another people of peace.

Now why does that sound so familiar?


3 posted on 04/21/2009 6:04:19 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Shellybenoit
Eye-opening.

The power of propaganda and haigiography.

4 posted on 04/21/2009 6:05:21 PM PDT by happygrl (It's time to Party like it's 1773.)
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To: Shellybenoit

The readers will notice oh so many similarities to a communist regime in those letters


5 posted on 04/21/2009 6:39:32 PM PDT by GeronL (TYRANNY SENTINEL. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL

Agreed.


6 posted on 04/21/2009 6:42:47 PM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: Shellybenoit

bump


7 posted on 04/21/2009 7:19:18 PM PDT by lowbridge (It's not that liberals are ignorant, it's that they know so much that isn't so - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Shellybenoit

Wow. Thanks for posting this.


8 posted on 04/21/2009 10:41:58 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: Shellybenoit

Scary stuff. The left has always been so expertly skilled at propaganda and brainwashing... with horrific consequences.


9 posted on 04/21/2009 11:20:11 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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