Posted on 02/28/2005 12:32:20 AM PST by BykrBayb
and how come we don't have memorials and remembrances of all the hundreds of millions slaughtered by communists??? I think they need some recognition too.
OK, back to the show.
I hope they tell the students how the Holocaust began. There are a lot of supposedly educated people who don't know.
The National Social German Workers Party disarming the people, or did the previous guys do that?... anyway they weren't much different from commies.
You mean it didn't start with the mass extermination of Jews? There was actually a series of events that led up to that? If we stop those events from happening here, will we reduce the chances of a holocaust happening here?
Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, German resisters, Poles, Slavs, Russians, French, and a host of others including those turned in, under such a system, by others who wanted their property, or wanted them gone for some personal grudge, and were better connected.
I'll just bet the lot of it is mysteriously NOT REMEMBERED by the modern Holocaust deniers, who want people to assume that 4-6 million Jews were brutally and savagely murdered or left to die (which I don't question at all), all the while 5-6 million others just - disappeared - somehow, and we won't talk about it in polite company.
Never forget, they say. Well, the very sort to say that - have already forgotten. This is a past no one dare forget.
Remember, too, the horror at the discovery of just who was looking the other way or was actively, eagerly participating in all this. Not idiots. Fools maybe. But not incompetents. These were trained professionals, intelligent people, those otherwise respected in their societies, before the war, publishing papers, books, which were read worldwide and studied. In that sense, at least, they were not stupid. That's the frightening lesson that Alexander wanted people to remember in his postwar-studies of The Third Reich.
have you ever heard of the Arab Nazi's?? After the war they were funded by the UK and then by the US, they became Al-Queada and the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups.
I read somewhere that Soviet POWs, because they were both 'Slavic' and Communist, were left in their own camp in Auschwitz with no food whatsoever. They ate all the grass bare, and then turned to each other.
If WWI was a senseless war, WWII was the exact opposite - fought with and for the purpose of self-righteous brutality, at least on the part of Germany and Japan.
I recently ran across an interesting expression, "desk murderers." Desk murderers were those who may not have personally killed anyone but they gave the orders, signed the papers, etc. all from the comfort of their offices. Every totalitarian system needs its desk murderers in order to function. Groupthink makes this possible. Groupthink enabled the killers to suspend all judgement and just focus on being efficient little monsters. Of course our schools and popular culture never teach about the dangers of groupthink.
They were mirror images of each other.
One difference. Jews were hunted down and specifically targeted for extermination. They were wiped away in many countries occupied by the Nazis.
No need to mix everyone together. What day do we remember the Massacre of Jews at the Katyn Forest?? by the Russians??
Naziism and Communism were nearly identical and they used the same type of anti-capitalist rhetoric
What is ironic is that Hitler was the only one Stalin trusted.
Communists call Nazi's 'right-wing' but then again to them Trotsky was probably 'right-wing'
If it bothers you so much, why don't you make one?
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