tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post3220220033719330192..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Luck and maybe something buried led doctor through BuchenwaldNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-79035792595662810632015-04-17T19:04:50.352-05:002015-04-17T19:04:50.352-05:00Others say if that was happening to Christians mor...Others say if that was happening to Christians more would have been done or things would be investigated earlier on. No wonder some Jews are mad at Christians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-2140186856041800512015-04-17T19:03:42.946-05:002015-04-17T19:03:42.946-05:00Many here also didn't believe rumors of what w...Many here also didn't believe rumors of what was going on there or thought that couldn't possibly be happening in political prisoners.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-90292835455802438002015-04-17T11:46:44.998-05:002015-04-17T11:46:44.998-05:00I hope you read the interview with that British/In...I hope you read the interview with that British/Indian/Muslim/Jewish/Quaker, Ben Kingsley. That man has his head screwed on straight.<br /><br />"Pointing to a painfully ironic experience he had on the set of a Holocaust-related film staged in Budapest, he recalled an elderly passerby who told him, “It never happened, and if you don’t shut up it will happen again!”<br /><br />“How about that? Isn’t that totally screwy?” Kingsley asked."Eliezer Eisenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-15317460725476051002015-04-17T09:42:12.424-05:002015-04-17T09:42:12.424-05:00The Turks need to get real, but what do you expect...The Turks need to get real, but what do you expect of Muslims? no reasoningAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-48536890104127250282015-04-17T09:41:21.190-05:002015-04-17T09:41:21.190-05:00Some criticize the U.S. for not doing more to get ...Some criticize the U.S. for not doing more to get Jews here. But FDR's hands were tied with immigration laws at the time. Some children were helped. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-46130074097491543932015-04-17T07:47:56.022-05:002015-04-17T07:47:56.022-05:00(do realize this is a reprint-but good to see)(do realize this is a reprint-but good to see)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-60266958917881899232015-04-17T07:33:05.554-05:002015-04-17T07:33:05.554-05:00(that should be that's, not that) and had to, ...(that should be that's, not that) and had to, rather than have to)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-12386918415243397252015-04-17T06:52:25.475-05:002015-04-17T06:52:25.475-05:00Mr. Steinberg, Thank You for sharing these touchin...Mr. Steinberg, Thank You for sharing these touching and historical photos. I couldn't even bring myself to write anything yesterday, thinking of their horror. But we must indeed never forget. Your ancestors look more like my Italian ancestors than they do Poles. I take it their name was probably anglicized later. What a travesty of what that doctor and so many others had to go through in those circumstances. And how some holocaust survivors could be so forgiving or seemingly blase, is beyond me. I guess they have to, for their sanity.<br /><br />Unfortunately today's students know little of the atrocities the Japanese committed or of what Stalin was up to, but since some people are taking polls on who is the worst, I'd have to say the Holocaust, unfortunately, takes the cake. May they rest in peace and how strong they were indeed.<br /><br />Mrs.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-68090329778948498372015-04-16T19:09:31.806-05:002015-04-16T19:09:31.806-05:00Justifying hatred is easy. Justifying the reasons ...Justifying hatred is easy. Justifying the reasons for hatred is easy. 150 years after the Civil War, American's still look for ways to justify the separation of races and subjugation of "them others."<br />It is the human frailty of needing someone to look down upon in order to justify your own weaknesses. <br />Paul Fedrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04384556977324071639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-70779215191006719792015-04-16T16:52:49.656-05:002015-04-16T16:52:49.656-05:00An odd kind of competition isn't it? They were...An odd kind of competition isn't it? They were, of course, all monsters, but my case for Himmler as number one bastard is that, while Mengele and others were cogs in the giant killing machine, he, as head of the SS, was the machine operator. And if you read his quotes, he was not just a "go along" guy, detached from operations. Something said about Robespierre in an earlier terrible time pertains: "That man will go far, for he believes everything he says." And Himmler said very clearly that he believed in killing Jews and other "untermenchen." <br /><br />Tom Evans Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-44205887143580661442015-04-16T15:41:54.003-05:002015-04-16T15:41:54.003-05:00Lots of competition indeed. Like Julius Streicher...Lots of competition indeed. Like Julius Streicher, and Friedrich Jeckeln of Ukraine, and Slavko Kvaternik of the Ustaše. There's so much competition that it's like the marathons, thousands competing for the crown at the outer limits of human capacity. And most of them died in their sleep, surrounded by their loving families. So it goes.Eliezer Eisenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-3702388452742542382015-04-16T14:35:28.564-05:002015-04-16T14:35:28.564-05:00No hate for Eichmann? I'd put him ahead of Me...No hate for Eichmann? I'd put him ahead of Mengele and Himmler, although he did get caught and executed, which is more than you can say for the other two.Peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-30190330443788462362015-04-16T13:56:29.184-05:002015-04-16T13:56:29.184-05:00Not so amazing, really. Nietszche has a line that ...Not so amazing, really. Nietszche has a line that goes something like, "Memory says, 'I did that,' and pride replies, 'I could have not done that.' In time, pride prevails." The Holocaust also shows the obvious end result of hate, and some people need to hate, apparently, to build their own egos. It's hard to hate Jews while acknowledging the Holocaust, the obvious conclusion of this hate. So the Holocaust has to go. Not amazing at all. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-48023889361055983292015-04-16T12:11:10.570-05:002015-04-16T12:11:10.570-05:00What amazes me is that a substantial minority of f...What amazes me is that a substantial minority of fools still tries to deny that it happened.Bitter Scribenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-13710556751821901962015-04-16T12:06:36.947-05:002015-04-16T12:06:36.947-05:00Oh, of course there's lots and lots of competi...Oh, of course there's lots and lots of competition. Personally, I would give it to Mengele by a nose, because Himmler at least shied away from direct contact with the atrocities he authorized. Bitter Scribenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-46205601119082053752015-04-16T11:13:42.832-05:002015-04-16T11:13:42.832-05:00It constantly amazes me that something like the Ho...It constantly amazes me that something like the Holocaust happened -- not in the Dark Ages, but in the lifetime of my mother. I have a friend whose great-aunts were part of the Bielski brothers' group who lived in the forest for years to escape the Nazis. When I used to live in L.A., the people who ran the local coffee shop had numbers tattooed on their arms from being in the camps. I *know* the Holocaust happened, but it's so horrific that my mind can't accept the horrible reality that it did.Tonianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-51677386893039444392015-04-16T09:37:48.742-05:002015-04-16T09:37:48.742-05:00I edited a community newspaper in Skokie for a few...I edited a community newspaper in Skokie for a few years, and met several Holocaust survivors. One of them had had personal encounters as a child with Josef Mengele, because she had an identical twin sister, and Mengele had some sort of sick fascination with twins. He injected them both with typhus germs or something like that; the woman's sister perished.<br /><br />Mengele had to be the biggest bastard in the Third Reich. How galling that he managed to escape and live to old age.Bitter Scribenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-6471113758190947792015-04-16T09:31:04.305-05:002015-04-16T09:31:04.305-05:00I also wonder if keeping the air base at Incirlik ...I also wonder if keeping the air base at Incirlik is worth our still appeasing the Turks, since the current dictator of Turkey is a megalomaniac who just built himself a billion dollar palace, apparently in total secrecy, with the connivance of numerous Western governments, since nothing was written about it during construction, even though they had to know what was going on.<br />The continuing Turkish denials of killing 1.5 million Armenians gets more ridiculous over time.Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-57375103708275021112015-04-16T08:48:34.648-05:002015-04-16T08:48:34.648-05:00"Men can get used to anything. The scoundrels..."Men can get used to anything. The scoundrels." Dostoevsky - "Crime and Punishment.<br /><br />Tom EvansAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-30257821032725050492015-04-16T08:41:09.059-05:002015-04-16T08:41:09.059-05:00One can almost understand the deniers, when we shr...One can almost understand the deniers, when we shrink from taking in the enormity of the horrors of the holocaust -- it just couldn't be true. Something so awful could not have happened in our world. It must be a dream.<br /><br />Johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-43260654495016843612015-04-16T08:09:28.332-05:002015-04-16T08:09:28.332-05:00The best way to recognize the Holocaust is to pay ...The best way to recognize the Holocaust is to pay attention to genocides and ethnic cleansing going on today and risk being that weird person who brings up such unpleasantness during a debate on comparatively trivial political issues. <br /><br />The second best way would be to officially acknowledge the genocide that in good part inspired Hitler to commit the Holocaust: the Armenian genocide. Neither the United States has (a broken promise by President Obama) or, to it's immense discredit, Israel http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/Political-Analysis-Without-Euphemism-or-Hyperbole/Holocaust-Remembrance-Day-Should-Lead-to-an-Official-Recognition-of-the-Armenian-Genocide-398155 If the realpolitiks of maintaining good relations with the dubious current government of Turkey prevents even this much, why even bother?Anon-not-Anonnoreply@blogger.com