16-314 Garand Picture of the Day - Dachau concentration camp

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I have been thinking about this thread all day particularly that video of the children singing about taking over the world. Wow! I could not imagine teaching anyone, specifically my children that destroying a society, religion, group, or race is ok. Civil folks do just that.... act civil and understand there are differences between everyone. If acting civil, one would turn away if he/she doesn't like what they see or hear.... not kill them. As was alluded to earlier: same problem is occurring today as it did back then and even centuries/mellinia for that fact. Now its just more easy to see what is happening around the world because of media. My father always says.... know your past and you will predict your future. He is a paleontologist. -andy

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Wow! I could not imagine teaching anyone, specifically my children that destroying a society, religion, group, or race is ok. Civil folks do just that.... act civil and understand there are differences between everyone. If acting civil, one would turn away if he/she doesn't like what they see or hear.... not kill them. As was alluded to earlier: same problem is occurring today as it did back then and even centuries/mellinia for that fact. Now its just more easy to see what is happening around the world because of media.

From my reading on the subject Germany was a very different place in the 1930's and was a place that could happen to any society given similar circumstances. It is easy to use our modern perspective to look back and judge, however when a person is truly at the end of their rope, the measures they will take for survival are immense, when an entire country or culture feels at risk of extinction, the effect is magnified by the size of the group. Any one offering hope in one of those times will be seen as a savior and followed with increasing zeal as their situation improves by their hand. I don't look at this as an excuse or anything like that, but as a real life example of the actions humanity will take in certain circumstances.

The world in regions is still a very violent, horrifying place, and while the National Socialists made human suffering into an efficient mass scale system, the concept and practices have not been abolished outside of the safe areas we call the developed world.

The concept of universal peace and human right is not universally accepted yet, unfortunately.

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I remember going to market and carrying items for my mother. She bought eggs from a man who had crude tattoo's on his arm. When I asked what they were and she explained I couldn't believe it. Not long after, I guess after I was deemed old enough to be educated in the ways of the world, I was shown photographs that were taken by my deceased uncle of a death camp, many photographs, some however I was not able to see. I wonder now if it was just my mind blocking out the images for what I was viewing. Those pictures are still there 40 some years later. Only a fool would believe the atrocities were never committed, and they still are.