Oh, combat_boots, that is so very nice, thank you. No one dwells on it, and my parents (and my grandparents, I still have one grandmother who’s alive) have basically never talked about it in my 40+ years on earth.
I do try to talk to other family friends and more recent emigres to find out what exactly went on under Stalinist and Hitler’s rule, although I don’t want to dwell on it too long either.
What scares me the most is that my parents are seeing this happening all over again. No matter that a relatively small group of people remember what happened 70+ years ago, history’s being repeated. That’s why I feel we must spend our energy on here and now and the future. It feels like we are on an unchangeable course, but I like to believe that we can still make a difference. That we won’t look back, or our children look back, and wonder why relatively few fought back.
A lot of the things that were going on then during war (restrictions on travel, people were all considered lawbreakers because so many new laws were in place, a disregard for human life, no fair trials, so on) are deja vu to too many!
It feels to me like history is repeating itself, too. National Socialist and Marxist philosphy (humanism) always follows the same path where human life and dignity is not respected.
All the Jews need to come to Texas if things get nasty and we will play cowboys and Nazis.
Man's inhumanity to man knows no bounds when we forget that we are created by a Creator. Of course people sin even then, but without G-d, evil has no boundaries at all and some wicked people will become as evil as they possibly can.