Find Your Courage. The Nazis: A Warning from History--Archival Footage of Hitler and Those Who Were There (Memorial Day Weekend)

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This multi disc set from BBC netflix taught me a thing or two. Very poignant, alarming, and detailed. If you have studied the holocaust over the years, this will fill in some details you may not have known. Clip at bottom of post, with a woman who watched her mother repeatedly brutalized.)



I intend to watch chapter 4 again later today or tomorrow and post some quotes and pictures which will chill you to the Very Bone. One aspect of this film is the time spent on the lead-up, the politics, the set up. The slow movement of the population to blindness, lack of courage, and sheep mentality.



adolph hitler pic from bbc's warning from history



hitler reviewing the older men and younger boys,
the "Volksstrom" who were the last of the army
pic from bbc film nazis: warning from history



This film interviews those who were there, committing the crimes.

Some expressed remorse; others tried to rationalize what they did; others were very defensive.

There was a segment of an interview with a woman, who was a young girl when the russians were storming and destroying german cities. she describes the horror; that although the women were "disguised" the russian soldiers could recognize a "good figure"--and her mother was raped repeatedly every day. "mass suicides"

 "no longer human" "changed for the rest of her life"-- i will try tomorrow to post a small video clip of her story at the bottom of this post.

holocaust survivors and remembrance project
More HERE


and here is the chart for what type of person you were, that you were doomed to extermination:
polish, gay, jew, etc.  Click on pic to enlarge.

I found this version of the chart HERE, where the author has some thoughtful notes, (including a reference to MAUS, which is fascinating to read). .. he states,"My study of Nazi persecution of homosexuals, combined with my reading of Maus by Art Spiegelman, made me wonder if there were any alternative mediums of interpretation of homosexual Holocaust victims. Spiegelman, a graphic artist, utilizes his craft to help him understand his father and document his family’s past. While I was unable to find anything quite as “alternative” as Maus, I did come across the trailer for the 2000 award-winning documentary film Paragraph 175..."

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/irena-sendler-cleverly-saving-babies.html

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/abandon-all-hope-ye-who-enter-here-da.html

an amazing work of art- i'll lend you my copy if you can't find it...
thanks Jay!

Warning: very very sad.


and more of the systematic brutal rape of german women here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKjCHj8_rUk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYDoCuzEmyI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulRIHwPg4gw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsOouDLL_EA

Hitler Reaction to the Death of Osama Bin Laden

Humor politics pain unbearable information.
Humor a la hawkeye Pierce.

watch large HERE



IMAGES of Osama bin Laden’s mangled face will not be beamed around the world. But it’s worth considering, as we think about the death of bin Laden, how his face looked in life. It was not the face of a rabid or fulminating zealot. It was not even an angry face. On the contrary, in nearly every photograph, bin Laden bears a benign expression. There is softness to his demeanor. He was reportedly soft-spoken (if intense) with colleagues and reasonably kind, if distant, with his wives and children.


Yet he was the author of some of the greatest cruelties and crimes of the past two decades. Inspired and encouraged by him, al-Qaida murdered thousands of innocent Americans in cold blood. The memory of human beings hurling themselves to their deaths out of windows in the World Trade Center rather than die in the inferno is etched in our psyches. It was al-Qaida, possibly Khalid Sheikh Mohammed personally, who kidnapped, bound, and beheaded Daniel Pearl. It was al-Qaida, bin Laden’s creation, that used a child with Down syndrome as an unwitting suicide bomber in an attack on an Iraqi polling place in 2005.
Perhaps running short on handicapped children to booby-trap, al-Qaida used mentally impaired women to sow death and mayhem in Iraq in 2008. The AP reported: “Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives — and possibly used as unwitting homicide bombers — brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at least 91 people...”

When mentally impaired women were not available, al-Qaida had other tactics. According to C. Christine Fair of Georgetown University, who authored a U.N. report on terrorism, al-Qaida terrorists in Iraq would rape women and then hand them off to Samira Jassim, known as the Mother of Believers. Until her arrest in 2009, her job was to convince the shattered victims that the only way to redeem their honor was to die in a suicide mission. Paul Kix in the Daily Beast reports that 28 women did so.

Political theorist Hannah Arendt ignited decades of debate when she coined the expression “the banality of evil,” in reference to the architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann. He wasn’t extraordinary at all, she wrote, just a clerk doing his superior’s bidding without question.But what of Hitler himself? There, if anywhere, was a face that personified evil, contorted as it so often was by rage. But his secretary remembered him as thoughtful and kind — he was solicitous about her health, for example. It took years for her to come to terms with his fathomless evil — and her own complicity.

None of the great monsters of the past hundred years — Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot — thought of themselves as evil. On the contrary, even when exhorting their followers to the worst extremes of human degradation, they did so in the name of a higher good. Hitler was purging the world of a dire threat, untermenschen (Jews, Gypsies, the mentally impaired, homosexuals, and Slavs), in order to usher in a golden age, the “thousand-year Reich.” Even in the very last moments of his life, Hitler pointed to his war against the Jews as his greatest achievement. He was proud of the Holocaust.

The communists allowed as how in order to make an omelet, you had to break some eggs. In order to build the perfect society with universal prosperity and complete equality, some harsh measures would be necessary in the short term. But it was for a greater good. The brave dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky, noted mordantly that he had seen many broken eggs, but no one had ever tasted the omelet. One of Stalin’s henchmen recorded, “Our great goal was the universal triumph of communism, and for the sake of that goal everything was permissible ... to destroy hundreds of thousands or even millions of people ... and to hesitate or doubt about all this was to give in to ‘intellectual squeamishness’ and ‘stupid liberalism.’” One hundred million people in the 20th century were sacrificed to that particular ideal.

Robert Heinlein said that “Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.” Some are. Certainly those who commit tremendous crimes nearly always do so armed with elaborate self-justifications.

The unifying theme for the great killers is to dehumanize their victims first. Stalin targeted “kulaks,” and “counterrevolutionaries.” Hitler despised “Jewish vermin.” Pol Pot loathed and derided “cosmopolitans.” The soft-spoken bin Laden, his quiet style notwithstanding, denied the humanity of his victims with the word “infidel.”You cannot reliably detect evil in a face. But the attempt to dehumanize is always the precursor of dark crimes.Mona Charen writes in Washington, D.C. on politics and national issues.

Irena Sendler: Cleverly Saving Babies During the WW II Holocaust

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Forward.
"Look at this lady - Let us never forget!

(The world hasn't just become wicked...it' s always been wicked. The prize doesn't always go to the most deserving.)

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.
She had an 'ulterior motive'.
She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews (being German).

Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids).
She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.
The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.
She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family.
Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She was not selected. (Al Gore won that year).
63 years later

In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.

This memorial is being posted as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, 50,000 suspected of being homosexual and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated.
Now, more than ever, with Iraq , Iran , and others, claiming the HOLOCAUST to be 'a myth'.
It's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.
Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world..
Please send this e-mail to people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain.
Thanks! "
END

Here is more about her: .auschwitz.dk/sendler.htm
and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler

Unquote.

End ForWARD.



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