Posted on 11/03/2016 7:16:55 AM PDT by SJackson
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I ain’t surprised. If you stick your neck out and do something good, something that God wants, the devil is going to be on your tail trying to stop you.
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Good story here. Thanks for posting.
Schindler’s life and story reflects the great dichotomy present in the German personality. Intelligence, creativity an even kindness coexist simultaneously with harsh dogmatic compulsions, rigidity, projection and murderous prejudice. It continues to this day and is reflected in their politics and policies. Churchill summarized it best. “The Germans are either at your throat or at your feet”. They can never atone for their crimes nor will they ever recover the irreplaceable genetic loss of their best stock between 1914-1945. The results insanity of the Kaiser and Hitler can never be forgotten or reversed.
All those who mistreated him will pay the price....................
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Some may understand later and get on the right road. I don’t think Schindler himself, if (as I hope) in heaven, would bear a grudge in those cases.
Let's just say that Oskar was far more enigmatic than the books or movies have portrayed him. A very good man, but also one who fought his temptations (to put it mildly).
We’d wish, of course, that Schindler could have saved all of them. This is one of the most agonizing situations.
We ultimately have to conclude by confessing that God knows what He is doing. Suffering on earth isn’t the entire picture of human existence.
Schindler was an avid motorcyclist before the War, and rode the racing circuit in Europe. He liked Italian bikes (like Moto-Guzzi and Ducati) and was designing and building bikes in his garage when the War started.
He later used his knowledge of bikes to divert some SS who roared up to his factory on motorcycles. Some cigarettes, petrol, and “scooter-talk” sent them on their way as a couple of hundred Jewish Workers held their breath on the other side of a wall.
The scene from Keneally’s book would have made a wonderful movie sequence, and to this day, I can’t figure out why Spielberg ignored it.
Oh well, I guess us bikers look at the world a little differently!
Keep the chrome side up, brother Oskar!
Sometimes I think we nuked the wrong country.
Thank you for posting.
Instructive tale for all those who believe that world attitudes toward Jews actually changed at all after WWII.
When did we nuke a country?
I was shocked, and I told him any sort of self-mutilation, self-maiming, but especially to destroy your reproductive capacity, is immoral. He said, rather, that it was immoral for Germans to reproduce, since they were historically such warmongers and racists. So, since he was against abortion (the ethical residue of a Catholic upbringing), sterilization was the perfect way to prevent that, and also reduce Germans down to a more humble level vis-a-vis the rest of the world.
He called it "demographic justice."
I called it "sick, irrational inherited guilt". I urged him not to do anything so destructive and drastic. He was amazed that I didn't agree with him, and then said, "Well, not being German, you wouldn't understand."
Japan. It was in all the newsreels.
Germany surrendered before we touched the first one off in New Mexico. Nuking them after they had surrendered would have been seen as ‘not playing fair’.
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