RE: Holocaust denial
April 25, 2015 at 10:51 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2015 at 11:01 pm by Brian37.)
(April 25, 2015 at 10:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote: My dad's battalion stumbled across a small work camp in Austria in 1945. He said "we could smell it long before we could see it." He didn't particularly like jews but he said it was the worst thing he saw during the entire campaign, which for him began at Salerno.
Not liking an entire label or hating an entire label is absurd. That is not to say you cant dislike or hate an idea. The idea that religion is a good way to view reality is a bad idea. The idea that you are special by proxy of religious label is also a bad idea.
But yea, bet it was extremely nasty and horrible to look at. Glad the allies kicked Hitler's ass. I can tell you for myself, there is no way I could have even made it to the beaches from the boats. I am a physical wimp and mentally knowing how scared shitless when my mom has health issues, I am just glad there are are those mentally fit to do it.
The other thing about WW2 is that while Hitler was entirely to blame for it, it didn't help that we left Germany to rot after WW1. If we had lifted them back up it would have made Hitler's rise to power highly unlikely. Put a charismatic speaker in front of a starving population who promises them glory, no matter how deluded that man is desperate people will follow.
The problem with "nation building" now is that we still have old school politicians with parents who were around in WW2 which is why Bush stupidly did what he did, and why we haven't had anything but quagmires and stalemates since WW2.
