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Yes, both Ukraine and Canada (which has a lot of citizens of Ukrainian heritage) both observe Holodomor Remembrance Day on the fourth Saturday in November every year.

Armenia, in her turn, remembers the Aghet every year on the 24th of April, when the deportations in the Ottoman Empire began in 1915.

Seyfo, the massacre of Syriac Christians in 1917, however, has no official memorial day anywhere yet, iirc.

Hello Mr. Busek :-),

you are right that Wikipedia has to be used with extreme caution, especially in matters of politics.

Still, I think it does have its merits in providing information on the popular culture of our time; this is something I am hardly versed in. Thus, I often rely on Wikipedia for that purpose.

A pleasant evening to you :-)

Yes, it is tragical☹️, I think.

I often wonder why: is it because the dream of reestablishing of Israel was ultimately rooted in religious tradition (though many of the later Zionists, including Theodor Herzl, were secular nationalists - it was the 19th century, after all, when the political idea of nationalism was at its peak).

Or is it because present-day leftism has completely turned its back on the concept of the sovereign nation-state? Yes, it was originally considered to be a „leftist“ idea - it originated in the French Revolution, after all, didn‘t it? - but nowadays, the left has really done an about-face on this concept .🙁

Yes, and I hope that everyone repented at last, on all sides.

Let him who is without sin, cast te first stone.
Amen.

I definitely agree about the UN, however, in Cambodia, rumors persist that Pol Pot was actually poisoned.

Enemies he had made more than enough...

Certainly he did, because the truth is often awful. No doubt about it.

Still, an extremely brave man that Gen. Patton was, he did not mince words in this regard.
He loved talking straight, he was not a politician nor a fussy booksmart “intellectual” who pussyfooted around issues.

He was a military man from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet.
And he really had “balls of steel”. He took “feces” from no-one, not from his enemies, and not from his colleagues.

I admire him, and I doff my hat before his memory.

Don’t worry, that could never have happened.Nazism was far too criminal, and too exclusive, for that.

There wasno way someone who was not a member of the “Aryan race” could have been in good standing in the Nazi system. In communism, everyone could play, if he was willing to follow the tenets of the Communist ideology - no matter what his or her background, racial, national, social etc., might have been.

There was simply no good will for any “racial outsider” in Nazi ideology, not even in personal relationships.

I think no true Nazi could ever have honestly said to his Eastern European manservant: “You are a better man than I am, Gunga Dinsky.”

I am quite sure all of the damned system would have collapsed. After all, it was ready for destruction, no matter how terrible the terror became in the last phase. The ideology was already dying, now it was just the defence of Germany from the enemies. After all, soldiers always fight harder when their own countries’ and the lives of their loved ones are at stake (old hat, just don’t tell people like Ralph Peters or V.D. Hanson, who could or would not understand it - they have never been in a similar situation. Nor have they, probably, fired, or had to fire, one single live shot in their lives).

And, by that time, there would have been no way around a surrender. Of course, as much as Goerdeler et al. would have tried to avoid it, there would have been “no dice”, I am sure.

But at least the final bloodbaths could have been avoided. A world with the brave people of the Warsaw Rising, with Anne Frank and her family still alive, with Viktor Ullmann and Joey Kennedy still there, and millions more and more...

And the punishment of the Nazi criminals (by ourselves) would have been much harsher, since there would have been more German survivors. Many of the criminals only escaped because there were simply not enough qualified people around anymore to fill many vacant jobs in administration and elsewhere, so you couldn’t hire anyone who had not compromised himself.

True, that is why I am pleading so much for mutual understanding among ourselves, the common people of the West.

Maybe America’s power elite hates ordinary American citizens marginally less as the elites of Europe hate their ordinary people, but, when all is said and done, I don’t see much of a difference on both sides of the Atlantic.

I am afraid that Germany might have been the Petri dish for the pernicious ideology which is now devastating the entire Western world.

It may have started with the so-called reeducation and the neocommie media installed after 45, but in the sixties it was really when the smelly brown hit the rotating device.

Still: how was it able to infect America? The influence of the Frankfurt school, to whose members the Roosevelt administration had given asylum?

O what a viper hath he nourished at his bosom...

It is not lack of intelligence, it is the trauma of being crushed and the rotten fruit of the so-called re-education, and its successors on the rotten new left, who, btw, were far worse.

Right, and over here the leaders are planning to import many more of them. The party is just beginning.

Fellow Freeper B...... wrote I hadd no brain when I tried to explain the situation of my country to him. If only he would read this article, which describes the climax of a development which began as sooon as Hitler went to Heck.

From one insanity to the other, with no respite.

Many of them, tragically, yes. Although a few of them actually joined the Resistance later on.

But the Nazis, alas, did manage to rally the political Right to its cause.

I think the Nazis were not left nor right, but both. This ideology was an infernal dualism of Nationalism (i.e. here: anti-Semitic hatred and imperialism, not a moderate Nationalism) and Socialism.

Unfortunately, just before the elections in 1932 and 1933 they had toned down their Anti-Semitism significantly - in public, as they knew that would not be a big vote-winner.

The wolves had been eating chalk, as we say in German (an allusion to the fairytale of “The wolf and the seven little kids”, where the wolf eats chalk to get a sweet voice, in order to trick the little kids into opening the door for him).

P.S.: Hmmm...devious politicians? Unfortunately, deception in politics, especially before elections, didn’t simply disappear with the fall of Nazism. It is still fiercely clinging, alas, to life.

Absolutely true.

In the aftermath of the war (or so it seems to these humble eyes), Nazi military-technological (is that a word?) achievements looked much bigger than what they were. Of course, invented stories and speculations gave quite some fuel to a lot of these impressions.

Yes, definitely the war would have ended in Europe, Mr. Busek. General Beck and C. F. Goerdeler were under no illusions what the military situation was like :-)

And yes, the Nazi system would have collapsed. You see, it really was totally centered around the person of the accursed “leader”, unlike the Soviet system.

With it, and most importantly, there would have been peace in Europe, saving millions of lives and untold amounts of material assets. Certainly even the postwar population movings and ethnic cleansings would have been less bloody.

and please: Think about the American soldiers who fell after July 1944, including the dead in the Ardennes, or even somebody like Joseph P. Kennedy, jr., the eldest of the four Kennedy brothers.

Furthermore, I am quite sure that the postwar famines wouldn’t have been as harsh as they were. Thus, more survivors, less tragedy.

Hitler survived no less that 42 assassination attempts (the first as early as 1931), and I often ask God why He let not one of them succeed.

Sorry, the end of the Holy Roman Empire was, of course, not in 1804, but in 1806. Shame on me.

Very true, or maybe William II couple have resigned in favor of his son, if he would have been considered unbearable as a head of state any more. Either by the Entente or by the German people and political class - or by both.

The institution of „Emperor“, the head of the German state in an unbroken line from 962 to 1804, and resurrected in 1871, would have been vastly more important than the individual monarch. There had been resignations of emperors before, after all, so an abdication of William II would not have been without precedent.

Amen🙏🏻

Terrible, but the left has been working on it for decades.

After the collapse of every institution, the leftists, however, may one day come to realize that „people freed from every constraint“ are not noble savages, but absolutely evil. „The End justifies the means“ will be the case everywhere.

I am afraid. Very afraid. Yes, I admit it☹️

Unfortunately yes. Undeniable facts are used as a pretext by the Powers That Be to make the lives of the citizens even more of a living heck than they already are.
Say one word which they don’t like, and you are done for. Orwell says „hello again“.

One would hardly think that the lyrics to a song of Judas Priest‘s called „Some heads are gonna roll“ were written forty years ago:

„The power-mad freaks who are ruling the earth
will show how little they think you’re worth;
with animal lust they will devour your life,
they‘ll slice your words to bits like a knife“

It seems so much more fitting for these days…