An atrocity yes. Evil yes. Nazi Germany no. Let's stick to what happened here and make sure it does not happen again.
Agreed. This has just strung me out and made me a little paranoid. I don't know why we have to read in a British newspaper that the family was denied even a small portion of her ashes and lock of her hair. I don't know if it is true or not.
I had a Jewish friend who became very depressed and refused to eat and ended up killing himself. It's something you don't ever forget. His wife's parents escaped here, but the rest of the entire family was wiped out.
Then I met a guy at work who was a Christian missionary who tried to pull the BS on me that the Holocaust never happened. Handed me a paperback book. I took it because I wanted to see how anybody could attempt to propagandize that way. I didn't read the whole book, but I flipped through it and caught the drift. It was my first exposure to revisionism.
It made me sick.
I asked my neighbor about it before he died, one who had gone on one lung for years (shot out in the war) and who I suspect was overdosed with chemo in a Veteran's hospital. One day he is well enough to go on a bus 60 miles to the hospital and spend the whole day there and come home and say, "Yeah, it's terminal." Within a week he was back up there and given a heavy dose of something which caused him to go into respiratory failure, and he died within 2 or 3 days.
Before that happened, I asked him about it, and he said very emphatically, "I was there when they liberated the camps. I SAW it." I think he said he smelled it, too, but I don't like to misrepresent things and don't remember it was quite awhile back now.
Not that I ever doubted. It's just odd how these things intertwine. I ended up going to a Holocaust memorial with my Jewish girlfriend whom I hadn't seen in years, the sister of the brother who had committed suicide, and they had some speakers who told their stories. That was at the local synagogue. One of the speakers seemed on the defensive and indignant. I felt shamed that they had to defend themselves these many years later.
I hope I didn't say anything inappropriate. My first knowledge of man's inhumanity to man came from reading about the Jews and the death camps, medical experiments, etc., when I was a child of about 8 or so. My parents didn't talk about it, but I was not allowed to have any stamps of Hitler in my stamp collection, and I understood why.
When I was in Amsterdam, I couldn't go into Anne Frank's house. But I couldn't go to the Tower of London either. Everybody else went.
Here, we agree. The mention of slippery slopes, death camps, euthenasia (possibly as a solution to the Social Security problems), are all intended toward that goal, imho.
Unfortunately, we live in an age which requires 'shock and awe' to get the attention of the masses, and one which has desensitized those same masses to the 'shock and awe' required.
That, perhaps, is the most frightening aspect of all of this.