Posted on 11/09/2008 7:55:57 AM PST by SJackson
On November 9-10, 1938, Nazi storm troopers throughout Germany and Austria ransacked Jewish homes, marauded through the streets, broke windows of Jewish-owned stores and looted merchandise, set fire to synagogues, randomly attacked Jewish men, women and children and arrested thousands of men. When the violence ended, at least 96 Jews were dead, 1,300 synagogues and 7,500 businesses destroyed and countless Jewish cemeteries and schools vandalized. A total of 30,000 Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. The broken glass strewn through the streets from the mayhem caused the pogrom to be called "Crystal Night" or Kristallnacht.
A Jewish shop in Berlin damaged during Kristallnacht. Photo: AP Some Germans claimed after the war that they did not know what the Nazis were doing to the Jews. On Kristallnacht, for the first and only time during the Third Reich, historian Ian Kershaw observed, "the German public was confronted directly on a nationwide scale with the full savagery of the attack on the Jews."
After Kristallnacht, a member of the Hitler Youth admitted, "no German old enough to walk could ever plead ignorance of the persecution of the Jews, and no Jews could harbor any delusion that Hitler wanted Germany anything but judenrein, clean of Jews."
While many Americans would also claim they were unaware of the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, the events of November 9-10 were well documented. The New York Times ran a front-page story on November 11: "A wave of destruction, looting and incendiarism unparalleled in Germany since the Thirty Years War and in Europe generally since the Bolshevist Revolution swept over Great Germany today as National Socialist cohorts took vengeance on Jewish shops, offices and synagogues for the murder by a young Polish Jew of Ernst vom Rath, third secretary of the German Embassy in Paris." Another Times story was headlined, "All Vienna's synagogues attacked."
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT made no immediate comment after Kristallnacht, referring questions about it to the State Department. Only after five days of widespread public outrage did he take any action: recalling the US ambassador from Germany and stating in a press conference, "The news of the past few days from Germany has deeply shocked public opinion in the US. Such news from any part of the world would inevitably produce a similar profound reaction among American people in every part of the nation. I myself could scarcely believe that such things could happen in a 20th century civilization..."
Roosevelt agreed to allow 15,000 German Jews already in the United States to remain, but resisted all calls to increase the overall quota of immigrants from Nazi-occupied countries. Equally significant, his failure to take any action against Germany, or to mobilize an international coalition to challenge Hitler, sent the message that the world would not intervene to save the Jews. How much he could have done given the isolationist and xenophobic mood of the American public at that time is debatable, but the consequences of his inaction were catastrophic.
On January 21, 1939, Hitler told the Czech foreign minister, "We are going to destroy the Jews." Nine days later he spoke of "the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe." By the time the war started in September 1939, most Jews, about 370,000, had escaped Germany and Austria. The 175,000 who remained were viewed by the Nazis as hostages in case the Jews outside Germany were considering any vengeful acts.
The deportation of German Jews to their deaths began in October 1941. At the end of April 1943, 150 Jewish children who had been living on a farm training to be Zionist pioneers were deported in one of the final transports of German Jews. Most died in concentration camps. Fewer than 10,000 of the 131,800 German Jews targeted for extermination by the Nazis survived.
Of the 43,700 Austrian Jews who had failed to escape the Nazis, fewer than 2,000 returned to their homes after the war. These were just a fraction of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
On this 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht we should be reminded of Edmund Burke's warning: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
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I have had that thought on my mind a few times since November 4, 2008.
How many people in the USA right now are thinking “This could never happen here, could it?”
JoMa
American jews vote on the side of dictators, marxists and facists. They haven’t learned a thing. They wallow in their pity so much they can’t wait for another holocaust.
Ping.
This may be a good place to post this:
“The original construction plans believed used for a major expansion of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1941 have been found in a Berlin flat, “
http://www.welt.de/english-news/article2694122/Auschwitz-blueprints-surface-in-Germany.html
Sad but true.
It has happened here on more than one occasion. The one’s who wonder don’t know a thing about American History.
The question is will it happen again and the answer is yes.
The problem is that good men tend to be unorganized and unready to confront evil until too late to nip it in the bud but instead it has become necessary to fight all-out to stop it. A tiny minority of Bolsheviks seized Russia because they were organized, had a plan and were ready to act at the first sign of opportunity and they acted ruthlessly to eliminate opposition organizations. The first things the Nazis did once they had their pretext was to abolish the political opposition’s parties and start arresting their leaders thus disorganizing them and rendering effective planning near impossible. Remember that video of Saddam sitting in the Iraqi parliament and laughing and joking as opposition leaders were arrested one-by-one and hauled away?
If good men want to get anything done they had better rally to existing organizations or get one started right away. And they had better agree on leadership and a plan and not waste a lot of time about it.
And wondering how to kill the 25 million people who would not submit to their communist agenda. The killing fields in the USA could happen just like it did in Cambodia, Cuba, Ukraine, and Germany.
History just loves to repeat itself, doesn’t it.
JoMa
The how they would do it in America is quite simple.
They would start hundreds of re-education centers all over the US.
Those who did not conform to re-education would be taken out of the centers and executed. People remaining would be told they left to go home or told nothing.
Millions would disappear in the matter of weeks or afew months at best.
People would go to the “Volunteer training programs” without arms.
The state would at some point steal all assets of those executed.
The Jews in Germany were mostly capitalists, a lot of Jews cooperated with the NAZI’s and survived. I have actually spoken to an old woman who was in Germany and was a Jew and cooperated to survive. She lives in south NJ.
The how they would do it in America is quite simple.
They would start hundreds of re-education centers all over the US.
Those who did not conform to re-education would be taken out of the centers and executed. People remaining would be told they left to go home or told nothing.
Millions would disappear in the matter of weeks or afew months at best.
People would go to the “Volunteer training programs” without arms.
The state would at some point steal all assets of those executed.
The Jews in Germany were mostly capitalists, a lot of Jews cooperated with the NAZI’s and survived. I have actually spoken to an old woman who was in Germany and was a Jew and cooperated to survive. She lives in south NJ.
I stopped playing fair. The American jews turned their backs to their Israeli brothers and sisters and no jew should even think about voting for the liberty hating dem party.
You're describing the "bug catcher" phenomenon, in a way. A "bug catcher" ethnicity.
If you don’t want to be fair, then please pray that God will move the hearts and heads of American Jews until they understand the dire situation that faces Israel.
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