Posted on 09/26/2013 11:57:40 AM PDT by the scotsman
Blonde German housewife Erna Petri was returning home after a shopping trip in town when something caught her eye: six small, nearly naked boys huddled in terror by the side of the country road.
Married to a senior SS officer, the 23-year-old knew instantly who they were.
They must be the Jews she’d heard about — the ones who’d escaped from a train taking them to an extermination camp.
But she was a mother herself, with two children of her own. So she humanely took the starving, whimpering youngsters home, calmed them down and gave them food to eat.
Then she led the six of them — the youngest aged six, the oldest 12 — into the woods, lined them up on the edge of a pit and shot them methodically one by one with a pistol in the back of the neck.
This schizophrenic combination of warm-hearted mother one minute and cold-blooded killer the next is an enigma and one that — now revealed in a new book based on years of trawling through remote archives — puts a crueller than ever spin on the Third Reich.
Because Erna was by no means an aberration. In a book she tellingly calls ‘Hitler’s Furies’, Holocaust historian Professor Wendy Lower has unearthed the complicity of tens of thousands of German women — many more than previously imagined — in the sort of mass, monstrous, murderous activities that we would like to think the so-called gentler sex were incapable of.'
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Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we are going to have to change our traditions, our history. We're going to have to move into a different place as a nation to provide the kind of future we all want desperately for our children.
Michelle Obama
May 14, 2008
Speech in San Juan Puerto Rico
After seeing Obama, I fully understand what happened in Germany.
No, it is not an open question. To be unrepentant after the Nuremberg trials is to be a hard core Nazi. The fact that she allegedy “helped” Jewish performers means that she knew that other Jews, who weren’t being helped were being treated worse than animals.
Furthermore, her trip to Switzerland to threaten her own daughter’s life if she didn’t return to Germany “you’re making us look bad, everyone says you are working for the Jews” - shows that she was on board with what was happening when it was happening.
Among the degrees I have is one in Germanic Languages, which required that I read German literature and screenplays. A lot. Starting about 1955, when the Germans were finally ready to confront their past, and at least up to 1981 (when I got my degree) West German society wrestled with two questions: 1) How could we have let this happen? and 2) Was all our suffering and sacrifice only in the service of evil?
On the first question, plays such as “Biedermann und die Branstifter” (translated into English as “The Arsonists”) and “Der Besuch der Alte Dame” (translated as “The Visit”) are particularly memorable, and offer a glimpse into a very dark side of human nature.
On the second question, books and plays worked around a recurring theme of “Lost Honor,” which was directed at the surviving veterans and the families who had lost sons in the war. All soldiers want to believe that they are fighting for “something,” and their suffering is not in vain. But they had to confront the fact that they were complicit in the perpetration of unspeakable horrors. It was very hard for them to accept.
After I obtained my undergraduate degrees I went to law school. One day my Civil Procedure professor turned his class over to a Holocaust survivor who told what he had to do to be the only member of his family to walk out of Auschwitz. At the end of the lecture, Professor Harvey took the podium and all he said was “your duty as lawyers is to make sure this never happens again.” Unfortunately, most of my classmates walked out of the lecture with the opinion that “this could never happen here.” Well, that’s what the average German of 1928 would have said.
The very fact that they believed it “could never happen here” means that it can. And we are on our way, in a very soft and gradual manner. But deep down in the human soul, I believe all of us could be conditioned to do exactly as the 23 year old blonde German SS officer’s wife behaved.
We are conditioned to “follow orders.” We are naturally led. Yes, it can happen here.
Who agrees to the killing of the most innocent among us?
That was the defense she used at the trial and a lot of Jews testified on her behalf (I think). The lengthy correspondence between her and Hitler is currently kept under wraps by one of her granddaughters.
How are American women better? We slaughter
the innocent through abortion and go on about
our lives as if we have swatted a fly.
?
Yep.
Here they are, the scum. Typical example.
http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/muslim-femininism/
How can the nation that gave us Beethoven and Goethe give us the Nazis?. How can the nation that bred Hitler be the same that bred Mozart?.
“Is this what Statism can do? Are Germans somehow morally defective monsters, or can any group of people be made to behave so horrifically?”
The Stanley Milgram obedience research (as portrayed in the CBS series The 10th Level) gave startling evidence that even in a college setting, with the only authority figure being a man in a lab coat and a clip board could coax ~~70% of the subjects to commit murder by electrocution (or so they thought they were doing).
This is why the world should have listened to the words of Lord Acton “Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely”, and of course to the Founders of the USA who did everything they could to keep chains on the size of government.
However, we have been too stupid, (thanks in large part to government schools), and too lazy and we allowed the monster of government and unlimited diet of money and power.
Also, the atmosphere of the First World War produced ideas of the embattled Germans, set upon by the rest of the world, which only became more inflamed with hyperinflation and the Great Depression.
Arguably, if France had lost instead of Germany you might have seen a movement not so very different arise there.
I saw a study years ago that said the two countries where the people were most likely to follow the direction of authority figures were Germany and the U.S.A.
That would not surprise me JediJones as if you are indoctrinated to “RESPECT” authority and not question it, this is exactly what happens.
There can be no other outcome. Humans absolutely suck at keeping power in check.
A response to your earlier post. “Gott Mit Uns” translates as “God is with us.” The Germans believed God was on their side, particularly as they were fighting the atheistic Bolsheviks.
True, but if you think about it, like many human qualities, they can be our greatest strength at one time and our greatest flaw at another. Much of our evolution revolves around what helps us survive in a war. In a war, the more powerful army will be the one who can march in lockstep behind a single authority figure. A fighting force where everyone does their own thing and doesn’t follow orders will be disorganized and easily compromised in a fight. And of course, the ability to form a group and follow a leader is a higher order function that puts us above most of the animal kingdom. It’s just unfortunate how dangerous it can become when a bad leader becomes popular and we follow him down a dark and dangerous path.
I’m gonna get flamed for this, but don’t flame too much, I’m a woman, myself. Whenever I hear I have a new female boss, my spirits fall. Women can be colder, harsher and much harder to work for than men. Not saying men can’t be bad, too, but women are often in a whole ‘nother category of mean.
Look at the black women participating in black mob violence against whites and hispanics, or making excuses for the violence that they endorse.
Found it on the web and watched it. Pretty crude, but Hershell Gordon Lewis did it earlier and better, imho.
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