Know your enemy
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Something is awfully familiar here...My father (Pacific, USN) and three of my uncles (one Marine, one flew with the Carpetbaggers, and one was USAAF ground crew) fought in WW2; my father has told me he would frequently run into people who would tell him the Holocaust never happened. He came from a small town, and many of his high school classmates fought in the US Army in Europe, and some of them were there when some of the death camps were liberated. He would usually tell the deniers they were fools. Racism, especially, and antisemitism have long, deep, and dishonorable pasts in US history. Antisemitism has very deep roots in Europe, going deeply into the Middle Ages. The type of virulent nationalism practiced by the nazis seems, however, to be a 19th Century invention.
To suggest that it never happened is like saying that ISIS and the Taliban are a kind, loving group of people who've never beheaded or injured anyone.My father (Pacific, USN) and three of my uncles (one Marine, one flew with the Carpetbaggers, and one was USAAF ground crew) fought in WW2; my father has told me he would frequently run into people who would tell him the Holocaust never happened. He came from a small town, and many of his high school classmates fought in the US Army in Europe, and some of them were there when some of the death camps were liberated. He would usually tell the deniers they were fools. Racism, especially, and antisemitism have long, deep, and dishonorable pasts in US history. Antisemitism has very deep roots in Europe, going deeply into the Middle Ages. The type of virulent nationalism practiced by the nazis seems, however, to be a 19th Century invention.
And if it didn't happen in Europe, the Holocaust-why did: Hitler, Himmler and Goering all commit suicide, Hitler and Himmler never saw trial at Nuremberg, but Goering did-- "Just following our orders" was one of the excuses for the greatest act of genocide of the WW11 era- Not that the Japanese were to be excused for their "death marches" and "germ warfare camps" where captured Allied and Chinese POW's were the victims.To suggest that it never happened is like saying that ISIS and the Taliban are a kind, loving group of people who've never beheaded or injured anyone.
"Monkey business in Milan-Humm!!"A couple of chimps on the run after the University of Milan was hit in a bombing raid on Milan...
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Zeiss is nice??
"Yah, Und for his next birthday we will let him fire ze gun and give him tobacco for his pipe!"