Reply #16: May the World Never, Ever Forget the Evil of Adolf Hitler's Germany

[David Zephyr]

It is my sincerest wish that any American who ever visits Germany makes certain to visit one of the Hitler's Concentration Camps so as to witness first hand the wickedness possible within the human race.

I thank you for posting this thread and story. Just think about it! "200,000 handicapped, mentally ill and other institutional patients whose lives the Nazis deemed worthless were killed under the Third Reich during World War II." Of course, this is added to the Six Million Jews and hundreds of thousands of homosexuals who were also exterminated by a nation whipped up into hatred and fear of people different than themselves...or so they thought.

It is important to always refresh people's memories of this horror. Why? Because there are still millions upon millions of people around the world who refuse to believe that the holocaust ever even happened at all. It does not fit their narrow ideology or crude religious dogma and it does not square with their need to hate.

Here in the United States we have our very own home grown haters who also stubbornly and wickedly teach that there was no holocaust. In fact, there is a whole commercial market of "authors" and "lecturers" who peddle this crap for profit and who poison young minds when they are most vulnerable to manipulation which frames the human race as a war between "us" and "them".

I have visited the Dachau Camp near Munich twice and I will never be the same. Never.

My companion and I have had the sacred priviledge of visiting Yad Vashem in Jerusalem where one's heart and mind are simply overwhelmed with simultaneous grief and anger at the suffering experienced at cruel and sick hands of the Nazis. The Children's Memorial at Yad Vashem is heartbreaking beyond description.

Thank you for this thread. Never forget.