10 thoughts on “The Country That Brought Us The Holocaust”
At least they’ve changed in the right direction. A tad much perhaps, but still in the right direction…
I watched a documentary not long ago about the battle of the Hurtgen forest. It followed a group of American and German WWII vets on a reunion in the Hurtgen. It was sad to see the German vets living as recluses in their own country afraid to uncover their past. They say even there own grandkids berate them for following the Reich and not rising up to stop the tyranny. The adults try to explain that they just don’t understand what it is like to live within a dictatorship under total propaganda control but the youth don’t what to hear nothing of it. The irony being that there ambivalence to the lessons that there elders are trying to teach them only brings them closer to being damned to repeat them.
“At least they’ve changed in the right direction. A tad much perhaps, but still in the right direction…”
On the contrary, I don’t think they’ve gone far enough. I’m sure that the making of illegal statements is becoming rampant in Germany. They should start setting up concentration camps for those who insist on saying the wrong things…
I think it’s worse than that.
Germany has had gutless loons running it before. The Nazis were the reaction.
Let’s hope they compensate differently this time.
The twisted lesson the Germans took from WWII was not that evil should be fought, instead they concluded that to fight is evil. –Dennis Prager
The Dalai Lama makes the Germans look like wusses.**
(**Not the first word that popped in my head, but the first one that wasn’t made famous by Honor Blackman.)
The irony being that there ambivalence to the lessons that there elders are trying to teach them only brings them closer to being damned to repeat them.
Yeah, I agree. The story at the link wasn’t what I was expecting to read. Wow. That’s just bad, and Canada was heading that way fast too. Maybe that will change for Canada with the new government leadership.
yet they arrest jews for putting israeli flags in their windows on the off chance that muslims will be offended…. personally I dont think much has changed other than a shift from naziism to islamism.
I agree with RandyB. Whenever I hear the German intelligentsia and/or government come out with some mealy-mouthed pacifist statement like this, I recall that old German habit of blaming outsiders for their problems that the Nazis took full advantage of. Back then it was Jews and Communists; today it’s Jews and Americans. The only difference is Germany’s economy is in pretty good shape. When that changes, all hell will break loose.
Maybe that will change for Canada with the new government leadership.
At least they’ve changed in the right direction. A tad much perhaps, but still in the right direction…
I watched a documentary not long ago about the battle of the Hurtgen forest. It followed a group of American and German WWII vets on a reunion in the Hurtgen. It was sad to see the German vets living as recluses in their own country afraid to uncover their past. They say even there own grandkids berate them for following the Reich and not rising up to stop the tyranny. The adults try to explain that they just don’t understand what it is like to live within a dictatorship under total propaganda control but the youth don’t what to hear nothing of it. The irony being that there ambivalence to the lessons that there elders are trying to teach them only brings them closer to being damned to repeat them.
“At least they’ve changed in the right direction. A tad much perhaps, but still in the right direction…”
On the contrary, I don’t think they’ve gone far enough. I’m sure that the making of illegal statements is becoming rampant in Germany. They should start setting up concentration camps for those who insist on saying the wrong things…
I think it’s worse than that.
Germany has had gutless loons running it before. The Nazis were the reaction.
Let’s hope they compensate differently this time.
The twisted lesson the Germans took from WWII was not that evil should be fought, instead they concluded that to fight is evil. –Dennis Prager
The Dalai Lama makes the Germans look like wusses.**
(**Not the first word that popped in my head, but the first one that wasn’t made famous by Honor Blackman.)
The irony being that there ambivalence to the lessons that there elders are trying to teach them only brings them closer to being damned to repeat them.
Yeah, I agree. The story at the link wasn’t what I was expecting to read. Wow. That’s just bad, and Canada was heading that way fast too. Maybe that will change for Canada with the new government leadership.
yet they arrest jews for putting israeli flags in their windows on the off chance that muslims will be offended…. personally I dont think much has changed other than a shift from naziism to islamism.
I agree with RandyB. Whenever I hear the German intelligentsia and/or government come out with some mealy-mouthed pacifist statement like this, I recall that old German habit of blaming outsiders for their problems that the Nazis took full advantage of. Back then it was Jews and Communists; today it’s Jews and Americans. The only difference is Germany’s economy is in pretty good shape. When that changes, all hell will break loose.
Maybe that will change for Canada with the new government leadership.
Or Maybe not…