MARINES AT HEART OF NEW BRITAIN, LAND 160 MILES WEST OF RABAUL (3/8/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 3/8/44 | Frank L. Kluckhohn, Ralph Parker, Lewis Wood, Tillman Durdin, John MacCormac, Drew Middleton, more

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[colorado tanker]

My thanks, too, Joe. Our times unfortunately show that the world still needs reminding. It is very depressing to realize most of the Nazis' victims have been slaughtered before American troops will hit the beaches at Normandy.

I also have mixed feelings about Gen. Marshall's testimony, reported in the last few days. I suppose it was sound military advice not to divert resources from Overlord and Italy to escort Jews to Palestine through a Mediterranean that is still a war zone, but my goodness, didn't he know what was going on in the Nazi camps?

[henkster]

The reason I’m grateful to Joe for posting the Holocaust comments is that the generation of perpetrators and victims is about to pass from the stage forever. Also, far too many Americans believe “that couldn’t happen here.” Even though the Holocaust was primarily directed against the Jews, many others suffered under the Nazi policy of extermination. And we should not treat this as an isolated instance in history. The Turks treated the Armenians the same way. The Bolsheviks set out to exterminate the Ukrainians in the Holodomor. The Japanese planned a similar future for the Chinese as the Germans planned for the Russians.

We should never think it can’t happen here. That’s what the average German of 1928 thought. But in 1955 they all asked “how could we have let this happen?” If you think it can’t happen here, you almost guarantee it will. And as the people involved pass on, there is no “living memory” to remind us.

We must never forget, and never be complacent. And for that reminder, I am grateful for Joe’s posts.

[TADSLOS]

Well stated.

[colorado tanker]

Barry and his "99%ers" have been stirring class envy and hatred for the last five years, cheered on by the media. Of course it could happen here.

In fact, we already did it - in WWII to the Japanese internees. It was approved by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Koramatsu case, which has never been overruled.