[muawiyah]

You are suggesting that lawyer Cohen would have been a voluntary Zonderkommando, right?

Supposedly there were such people - in a TV show years ago, "V", a Jewish grandfather who had escaped the Nazi deathcamps discovered that his grandson had sold out to the lizards, and he remembered others who had done that in the past - a very powerful literary device 20+ years ago, but I wonder if we are going to be understanding the phenomenon in the next 20 as the witnesses pass on.

[judicial meanz]

I absolutely, positively, most assertively am declaring Cohen would be first in line to get his Zonderkommando ticket punched.

The Zonderkommando existed. They are not a fantasy. My uncle liberated Dachau with the US 45th Division in 1945.The first thing that happened was the "accidental" machine gunning of the camp guards. The second thing was a lot of score settling between camp inhabitants and others who had collaborated and had others killed.

My uncle, who was, like the rest of my family, born Jewish in America, was horrified by the whole experience, and made absolutely sure we never forgot the forces that he witnessed there, and all the way through Europe as a Jewish-American soldier.

I make sure my children understand those forces today as well. My kids learn baseball, democracy, and as much as I can tell them about human nature after my experiences.